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Current TendersMechanical & Electrical Sheffield Teaching Hospitals...more Building Construction and Maintenance Adur District Council...more Landscape Restoration London Borough of Tower Hamlets...more Maintenance services of Mechanical Building Installations Wolverhampton University...more Environmental Issues Consultancy Services Birmingham...more |
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Current Tenders
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals – Mechanical & Electrical
The trust is seeking tenders for its individual contractor framework panels for building, electrical and mechanical work projects, which will be for an initial period of 3 years with an option to extend for a further 2 years.
Works will include reactive maintenance tasks and building electrical and mechanical works.
Tenders are invited for one or more of the following:
• Building, electrical and mechanical works up to £1million
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Building, electrical and mechanical works between £1million and £3million
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Electrical works up to £1million
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Mechanical works up to £1million
Link to Portal for further information:
www.sheffieldteachinghospitalsft.com
Adur District Council – Building construction and maintenance
Applications are invited from suitably qualified and experienced building contractors wishing to be considered for Adur District Councils select list of contractors, for a period of up to 3 years for works to council homes and properties.
All applications and first contact such be to:
Roy Wood
Building Surveying
Ham Road
Shoreham by Sea
BN43 6PR
01273 263359
Roy.wood@adur.gov.uk
London Borough of Tower Hamlets - Landscape Restoration
Designers to produce proposals to restore and enhance the existing gardens. The project will include restoration of an existing bandstand, railings and gates, provision of seating, benches and bins, improvements to hard surfaces and lighting. A budget of approximately £500,000 is available.
If you require further information on this project please contact
procurement@towerhamlets.gov.uk
Maintenance services of Mechanical Building Installations - Wolverhampton University
In the first instance contact
Estates Management Division
Tony Fryer – Contracts Officer
MX Building
Camp Street
Wolverhampton
WV1 1AD
01902321936
a.j.fryer@wlv.ac.uk
Design, Installation & Maintenance of Energy and Building Management Controls.
Expressions of Interest are invited from suitably qualified and experienced contractors to provide a design, installation and maintenance service for energy & building management controls systems across all of the University's Campuses situated in Wolverhampton, Walsall and Telford.
The University uses 'Trend' controls systems throughout its estate and applicants MUST have Trend Technology Centre accreditation and must be Trend IQ Assured. In addition, applicants are required to be Cylon Systems Integrator approved.
A four year term contract.
Estimated value excluding VAT:
Range: between 500 000 and 600 000 GBP.
Birmingham: Environmental Issues Consultancy Services
The Environmental Advisory Service (EAS) will be the primary access point in the West Midlands (UK), for Small and medium sized companies (SMEs) seeking all types of environmental advice and support, by way of information and diagnostic that identifies the company’s resource efficiency and environmental needs and brokers tailored support from both the public sector and commercial suppliers.
•These Environmental Services will be achieved through:
•the provision of information and expert advice to businesses on resource efficiency and environmental issues and signposting to sources of solutions support,
•a programme of technical events to provide businesses with the knowledge they need to implement resource efficiency and environmental improvement programmes,
•Low Carbon Networks throughout the region to encourage businesses to work together to become more efficient with the use of natural resources, considering issues such as eco-design and material re-use,
•invaluable on site specialist diagnostic support to help businesses meet the individual challenges that they face through the credit crunch, increase in raw material costs and continued introduction of complex environmental regulations,
•Access to a consultancy support grant to help with the implementation of improvement programmes identified during the specialist diagnostic component of this programme.
•Working with over 600 SME businesses in the West Midlands. 30-45 Environmentally focussed events within the region.
•Provision of telephone/ecommunication single issues advice and guidance.
Estimated value excluding VAT:
Range: between 700 000 and 900 000 GBP.
Please contact:
Business Link WM Advantage House 19 Ridgeway Quinton Business Park Quinton
Attn: Environmental Advisory Service, Country code: UK-Birmingham Postal code: B32 1AL. Tel. +44 8451131234. E-mail: p-environment-001@businesslinkwm.co.uk.
Doug Robins Podcat
Doug Robins is the President of the BCIA (Building Controls Industry Association). Here he talks about the forecoming annual conference being held on the 14th May in Coventry. Hear details of who should attend, what will be discussed, the focus of the association and the future moving forward in terms of recognised training and government support.
SMEs: Late Payments Reach £25.9bn
The sum of money now owed to British and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) stands at £25.9bn, according to Bacs Payment Schemes (Bacs).
Overdue payments rose by 40% with the Midlands hardest hit, and the average SME claiming overdue invoices amounting to £69,000. The number of SMEs owed money has jumped to 60% from 51% in 2007, with 24% claiming that late payment was down to cash flow problems.
Michael Chambers, managing director of Bacs, said: “This research demonstrates the pain being felt by many small and medium sized British businesses during these challenging economic times, and late payments could well be a major factor in the success or failure of these companies in the year ahead. SMEs are currently disappearing at a rate of 86 every day.”
Reducing Construction Waste
Manchester City Council has become the first local authority to sign up to a voluntary agreement to slash the waste from its own construction projects
The council has joined leading companies such as Balfour Beatty, Laing O'Rourke, Asda and Marks & Spencer in joining a voluntary scheme set up by the government-funded Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP).
Organisations that sign up to the scheme are set and pursue a target for reduction in construction waste to landfill and set corresponding standards for their contractors.
They are also expected measure their progress and report results annually to WRAP.
John Frubin, programme design and sustainability manager for Manchester City Council said: "We are absolutely delighted to be the first English council to sign up to WRAP's voluntary agreement.
"We are keen to make the council as green and sustainable as possible in all aspects of our work and signing up to WRAP's Construction Commitment: Halving Waste to Landfill is a demonstration of our drive to achieving the target of halving the amount of waste we send to landfill by 2012."
(This article was wrote by Sam Bond of www.edie.net)
British Gas Acquires Stake in Econergy
British Gas New Energy, a division within Centrica plc, has acquired a 19% stake in Econergy Ltd for £1 million.
Econergy is a leading biomass boiler and heating solutions specialist in the UK. It uses biomass – an organic non-fossil fuel material such as wood chip or pellets – to produce renewable heat and electricity. Its turnover for year ending June 2008 was £5 million.
The acquisition supports the government’s target of reaching 15% of total energy from renewable sources by 2020.
Unlike other forms of renewable energy, such as wind and solar power, biomass is not weather dependent so can provide a reliable and continuous supply of power.
Jailed
GU CHUJUN, the man responsible for introducing Greencool refrigerants to the UK back in the 1990s, has had his appeal against a 12-year sentence for embezzlement rejected.
The Guangdong Province Higher People's Court has upheld the 12-year sentence and $994,900 fine imposed last year for embezzling $43.5m, failing to disclose required information and filing a false financial report.
In what was described at the time as 'the biggest corruption case since the founding of communist China', Mr Gu was found guilty of falsely registering the capital of Greencool Enterprise Development Company, which he set up in 2001; publishing falsified financial reports for the listed Kelon; and embezzling with others $43.5m from Kelon and two other companies.
Mr Gu founded Greencool in the early 1990s and acquired Kelon¬ at that time China's biggest refrigerator manufacturer ¬ in late 2001. He was detained at the end of July 2005.
Mr Gu was responsible for setting up Gu Thermo Technology in the UK in the early 90s and introducing Greencool drop-in refrigerants, a range of substitutes for CFCs and HCFCs claiming to offer improved energy efficiencies.
Gu has been in a detention house for two years, so he will spend the next 10 years in prison, officials told the Shanghai Daily.
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