Brian Tinham

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Hinxton Hall selects Dalkia for energy-efficient CHP plant

Wellcome Trust subsidiary Hinxton Hall is now getting site-wide efficient heat and power from a Dalkia-designed, installed, operated and owned 2MWe CHP (combined heat and power) plant.

Gas Turbines
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Tata Steel extends EEMUA membership Europe-wide

Tata Steel has extended its membership of EEMUA (Engineering Equipment & Materials Users' Association) from the UK strip-steel hub to include all of its manufacturing and related operations...

Risk Assessment
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Viridor cleans up health, safety and environmental management

Recycling, renewable energy and waste management giant Viridor is reporting improvements in the provision of health and safety as well as environmental expertise for its compliance team, following...

Occupational Health
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Engineering Council welcomes EngTechNow apprentice standards

The Engineering Council is welcoming this week's announcement by the government of the Trailblazers apprenticeship programme – and, in particular, the new standard, which sees qualifying apprentices...

Apprenticeships
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Ineos contracts Amarinth for flare knock-out pumps

Ineos has taken delivery of two API 610 OH2 pumps from specialist centrifugal pumps manufacturer Amarinth for the flare knock-out system at its onshore refinery at Grangemouth, Scotland.

Oil & Gas
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Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering launched today

The £1m Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering was launched today (4 March 2014), with chairman Lord Browne of Madingley calling on parents to consider engineering, and to encourage their sons and...

Continuing Professional Development
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Meteoric rise for engineering apprenticeships

More than twice as many young people are taking engineering apprenticeships than degree courses, according to the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) at the start of National...

Apprenticeships
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Cool radar to measure thinning Arctic ice

A series of custom-designed radar instruments deployed in Antarctica will give researchers their first ever day-by-day measurements of the health of one of its ice shelves.

Level Measurement
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Peterborough contracts Honeywell for self-funding energy upgrades

Peterborough City Council has signed a deal with Honeywell for building energy management upgrades that will see guaranteed savings of £163,000 annually for the next 15 years across eight of its major...

Building Energy System
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GAMBICA to head up this year’s MACIES at Siemens, Manchester

GAMBICA, the instrumentation, control and automation trade association, is to host the 11th Measurement and Control Information Exchange System (MACIES) event, at Siemens, Manchester on 21 March.

Instrumentation
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Scotland to fund tidal energy pod pre-commercialisation

The Scottish Government has awarded a share of the Marine Renewables Commercialisation Fund (MRCF) to the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) to support development of an integrated site...

Wave/Tidal Energy
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Bouygues UK sentenced for serious crane safety breaches

Bouygues UK has been ordered to pay more than £250,000 in fines and costs for safety failings after a worker was killed by a large concrete beam during a dangerous lifting operation in strong winds at...

Manual Handling