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Martinson-Nicholls Helps Prevent Slips and Falls in Pool Areas

New 3M Safety Walk 3200 Wet Area Matting from Martinson-Nicholls (www.floormat.com) is designed to help provide slip resistant footing in bare foot traffic areas. All vinyl construction provides durability and ease of ca...

4 Apr 2007

Implementation Plan Launched - High Performing Property

The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) has published the implementation plan that will underpin High Performing Property, launched by the Chief Secretary to the Treasury in November 2006. It is the Government's five...

4 Apr 2007

CDM Regulations Come in to Force on Friday 6th April

Following extensive consultation with the construction industry, the new Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007 (CDM 2007) come in to force on Friday 6 April 2007. Making it easier for duty holders to comp...

4 Apr 2007

HSE Publish Consultation Document On How Best To Deal With Societal Risk

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has today, on behalf of Government, published a consultation document, seeking views on how best to deal with societal risk around non-nuclear major hazard sites. Societal risk i...

4 Apr 2007

A UK Report for Communities and Local Government

A study which examined how the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) managed and used science as part of its planning and policy making process, was today published by Sir David King, the Government's Chief Scientif...

4 Apr 2007

Tender for Delivery of Second Phase of Futurebuilders Fund

Government to tender for delivery of second phase of Futurebuilders Fund The Cabinet Office today announced that it will tender for a partner to deliver the second phase of the Futurebuilders Fund - a ground-breaking pro...

4 Apr 2007

Government Official Visits Milton Keynes to see how Growth is Developing

Government Permanent Secretary in the Communities and Local Government, Peter Housden recently visited Milton Keynes to see how growth is developing in the ‘new city’ and in particular those areas where Milton Keynes Par...

4 Apr 2007

New Agreement Signed for Pioneering Milton Keynes Infrastructure Tariff

A new agreement that is expected to raise more that £300m to help pay for the growth of Milton Keynes was signed last week (29 March). The Milton Keynes Infrastructure Tariff is a pioneering legal mechanism to delivery f...

4 Apr 2007

Turn Old Rubbish Into New Houses

That's exactly what civil engineer Dr John Forth in the School of Engineering wants to achieve with the invention of a building block made almost entirely of recycled glass, metal slag, sewage sludge, incinerator ash...

3 Apr 2007

High-Tech Villa Designed to Resist Earthquakes in Greece

A high-tech villa designed to resist earthquakes by ‘self-healing’ cracks in its own walls and monitoring vibrations through an intelligent sensor network will be built on a Greek mountainside. Leeds&rsqu...

3 Apr 2007

New Intelligent Switchplates Introduced by Simmtronic

Simmtronic has introduced to its SPECS3 lighting control system a successor to the popular SPK8 switchplate. The new and enhanced SPK.9 addressable wall mounted switchplate has been developed as an intelligent replacemen...

3 Apr 2007

Exhibition Exploring the Future of Sustainable Living - 13th April - 30th May 2007

You are warmly invited to the preview of CUBE’s upcoming exhibition Green Modernism on Friday April 13th from 5.30 - 8.00pm. CUBE is proud to host Green Modernism which is a very topical exhibition exploring the...

3 Apr 2007

Five Tips to Prevent Potential Flood Seepage Problems

Due to the extreme cold weather and heavier snow falls in the Midwest this past winter, combined with the upcoming rains, the potential for water seepage problems this spring is greater than in past, according to Barry S...

3 Apr 2007

The Best of Outdoor Lighting At OutdoorLights.com

Outdoor Lighting Perspectives, the world's premiere full service outdoor lighting and landscape lighting company, today announced its Guide To Expert Outdoor Lighting is available as a free download on its website at htt...

3 Apr 2007

New Bathroom and Tile Refinishing Evaluation Service Established by D.C. Foster

Veteran coatings developer D. C. Foster introduces a new evaluation service for bathtub refinishing and tile refinishing companies. This evaluation service was established by Foster for the purpose of creating a data bas...

3 Apr 2007