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Day: September 9, 2008

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Protecting the vulnerable

The West London NHS Mental Health Trust has chosen Illuminex's Xscape intelligent emergency lighting products as part of the refurbishment of the Secure Unit at St Bernard's Hospital, Southall. The patients who are looked after in the Secure Unit suffer from a

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System upgrade for welsh power station

ABB has won a major contract from E.ON UK to replace the existing VAX based operator stations at its 1,420 MW Connah's Quay Combined Cycle Gas Turbine Power Station at Deeside, North Wales with new MS Windows based power generation portal consoles.The

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Schneider buys in to solar market

Xantrex, the largest supplier of solar inverters to the North American market is to be sold to Schneider Electric for approximately $500m (£272m) according to recent company reports. This acquisition comes only a year after Schneider Electric purchased American Power Conversion (APC)

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IET concern over science figures

Whilst this year's GCSE results again showed record grades, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is concerned young people are not being encouraged to study triple or separate sciences. IET chief executive, Robin McGill said: "We want to know why so

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BWEA welcomes wind report

BWEA has welcomed the Carbon Trust's recent report on small wind systems, and claims there can now be little doubt the UK is in a good position to benefit from correctly sited small wind systems. The organisation states at the right locations,

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Up, up and away

Bristol based Power Electrics (PE) was recently commissioned by local electrical contractor, H Tanner and Co to provide the power and lighting for this year's 30th International Balloon Fiesta. PE supplied 25 generator sets rated from 15 kVA to 100 kVA to

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CIBSE rolls out new ‘100 hours’ initiative

Following two successful years of the 100 Days of Carbon Clean Up Campaign, The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) is rolling out a new initiative, aimed at enabling companies to prepare themselves for Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) and Display Energy

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Outlook for manufacturing output continues to deteriorate

Manufacturers' output expectations for the next three months are the weakest for seven years, the latest CBI Industrial Trends Survey has revealed. At the same time, the balance of firms expecting the price of manufactured goods to rise has barely changed since

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