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Energy-efficient building services engineering from one sourceWith its divisions Building Technologies and Osram Siemens offers a comprehensive portfolio to lower energy costs in public and commercially used building.
Fluke, the global leader in handheld electronic test and measurement equipment, has reduced the prices of all its Fluke 1650B Series of multifunction Installation Testers, designed to test and verify domestic, commercial and industrial electrical installations. With more features than the earlier 1650 Series, the Fluke 1650B testers ensure that fixed wiring is safe and correctly installed to meet the BS7671 17th Edition wiring regulations as well as IEC 60364 and HD 384. The Fluke 1652B/PKit Electricians Kit is also reduced in price.
The ethical and legal requirements to protect workers from risk of electrocution are stronger today than ever before. The only way to ensure safety, is by insisting on the use of true Safety Switches in the workplace, rather than ordinary rotary isolators. "New duty-of-care legislation is tougher than many think," says Kevin McCarthy, Managing Director of Katko UK, the leading manufacturer of Safety Switches. "Companies can now be liable for prosecution if senior managers (not just directors) fail to provide a safe system of work for employees."
Energy efficient reflector lamps from OSRAM’s halogen range have been installed throughout the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology in Oxford as part of a £61 million development programme. Kevan Shaw Lighting Design turned to OSRAM in order to procure a solution that would achieve the delicate balance of reducing energy costs while showing the art works in their best possible light.
To help electrical contractors meet the increasing demands for LED display and accent lighting, Thorn has brought out D-CO LED. Competitively priced, the luminaire range combines quality with simplicity of installation and operation, plus all the benefits of eco-friendly LED technology.
EMKA’s 1022 program quarter-turn locks – popularly known as “mini-locks” have the style and capability of their big brothers in a miniature package suitable for smaller cabinets, wall mount enclosures, access panels or other housings. They are very useful where space and design limitations demand easy operation as well as a good level of rugged serviceability. The 1022 program locks are also available with additional sealing rings for applications where protection to IP65 is important – and for heavy dust environments a special dust cap can further improve sealing capability.
Prysmian is the first and currently the only cable manufacturer to have BASEC approval for enhanced fire resistant power cable.
Legrand has further strengthened its range of market leading earth clamps by launching the Tenby Rapid Clamp Ultra – an innovative product that can be installed up to five times faster than traditional clamps.
New to the comprehensive range of detectors from CP Electronics are two High Bay PIR Detectors – the EBDSPIR-HB-PRM and the EBDSPIR-HB-DD –specifically designed for the detection of movement in high bay lighting applications such as warehouses and factories. Both detectors can be used in either presence detection or absence detection mode, with incandescent, fluorescent and compact fluorescent light sources, to provide automatic control of lighting loads with optional manual control.
With the launch of many new products over the past 12 months it can be hard keeping up with the changes in the GE portfolio which has recently seen the introduction of Unibis, Fixwell, Record plus drawout, Secogear, Entelliguard and surge suppressors to name but a few.
Wales’ largest department store, John Lewis in Cardiff, has been equipped with FP200 Gold cable from Prysmian. The new shop, which opened in September 2009, has had more than 20,000 metres of Prysmian’s FP200 Gold cable installed in the fire alarm loops. FP200 Gold was also used in a network cabling capacity.
Legrand has published a new wiring device catalogue that provides an all-encompassing and indispensible guide to its industry leading portfolio of products for commercial, residential and industrial use.
Quantec, C-TEC’s cost-effective and versatile addressable call system, has been installed at a new £10 million health facility in Todmorden, Yorkshire.
A variety of Megaman lamps have been used in the refurbishment of The Psyche Department Store in Middlesborough, with the aim of reducing energy and showing the merchandise off to best effect. The lamps, which were chosen for the project by Psyche's managing director Steve Cochrane, have been used throughout the store to highlight the merchandise, particularly the mannequins and clothes rails. Steve commented "Megaman has, by far, the greatest range of energy efficient lamps on the market and, as far as I am concerned, are market leaders in CFL technology".
When the owners of an award-winning nursing home decided to upgrade the 37-bed property they found that Marshall-Tufflex’s Odyssey Bio Trunking Solutions provided the perfect answer for meeting the project’s cable management requirements and delivering a welcome infection control element.
The South West’s largest social landlord - Somer Community Housing Trust in Bath - is installing Aico’s Optical mains powered smoke alarms with 10 year battery back-up, wirelessly interconnected using Aico’s RadioLINK system, throughout its 9,700 properties in Somerset, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and Bristol.
Emergi-Lite Safety Systems have extended their range of EMEX Power central power supply systems to provide high performance, low maintenance emergency lighting solutions to meet the most stringent design and operational requirements.
Patients in East London and Essex are benefiting from new state-of-the-art medical facilities at Spire Roding and Spire Hartswood hospitals thanks to the provision of new specialist MRI units at both sites, powered by Prysmian’s Afumex LSX cable.
GreenBrook has helped to provide an illuminating solution to market demand for self-testing emergency lights, supplying thousands of its bulkhead style luminaires to Exco for modification.
The SEN plus range of Low Voltage Switchgear Solutions is being re-launched following testing to incorporate the following new features.