British Airways has placed an order with Working At Height for 35 access platforms to ensure safety and compliance with the Work At Height regulations at London's Heathrow and Gatwick airports.
Access Control
The Royal Academy's Sustained Achievement Award, one of its highest honours, is to go to Dr Peter Jost for his ground-breaking work in tribology, the science and engineering of interacting moving...
Metrology
Where sustainability is concerned, the art of the possible is accelerating far faster than the reality of adoption.
Combined Heat & PowerUnder UK energy efficiency regulations, all air conditioning systems in buildings with a cooling capacity of more than 12kW should have been inspected – yet fewer than 5% have been.
HVAC/Cooling systems
Plants engineers challenged with ageing infrastructure, capital constraints, uncertain data and risks, while facing growing performance pressures, might now take solace from the publication of a...
Planned Maintenance
This evening (9 October 2013), the Rt Hon David Willetts, Minister for Universities and Science, will be giving the IET's (Institution of Engineering and Technology) 2013 Mountbatten Memorial Lecture...
Energy Audits
Fluid motion and control specialist Flowserve is using ABB variable speed drives and motors to speed up testing of its new pump variants at different speeds, at its in Newark production plant.
Electric Motors AC
The whisky and salmon industries in Scotland are about to embark on an innovative partnership that will convert waste from whisky production into feed for salmon and fish farming.
Biomass Plant
In what's being described as an unexpected finding, MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) researchers have discovered that water droplets that form on a superhydrophobic surface and 'jump' away,...
Heat Exchangers
Although seals are often the smallest and apparently least significant components in new plant and machinery, they frequently have the greatest impact on its function.
Seals
SPP Pumps has been recognised as one of Thames Valley's best apprenticeship employers in the regional final of the National Apprenticeship Awards 2013.
Apprenticeships
Cornish creamery Rodda's – which installed a new clotted cream line last year, in time for the Christmas rush – is reporting success with a MasoSine SPS2 sanitary process pump.
Pumps