Councils Welcome Rishi

Responding to the announcement that Rishi Sunak MP is to become the next Prime Minister, Chairman of the Local Government Association, Cllr James Jamieson, said:

“On behalf of councils across England and Wales, I would like to congratulate Rishi Sunak on becoming our new Prime Minister. As a former Local Government Minister and Chancellor, the PM already understands the mounting pressures that the sector face and the funding that councils desperately need to ensure they can keep vital services running for the many people who rely on them.

“Across the country, councils are working hard to support residents with the cost of living; looking after our most vulnerable children and adults; building desperately needed homes; supporting children with SEND and providing accommodation to those fleeing Ukraine and Afghanistan.

“However, without certainty of adequate funding – and given the funding gaps they are seeing – councils will have no choice but to implement significant reductions to services including to those for the most vulnerable in our societies. In these difficult times, we all need to come together and work in the best interests of our residents. The Government needs to ensure councils have the funding to meet ongoing pressures and protect the services that will be vital to achieve its ambitions for growth and to produce a more balanced economy, level up communities and help residents through this cost-of-living crisis.”

Greater Manchester Chamber Responds to Announcement of new Prime Minister

Responding to the news that Rishi Sunak is the new Prime Minister, Chris Fletcher, Policy Director at Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce, said:

“We would obviously like to congratulate the new Prime Minister and, hopefully, we can now look forward to a period of much-needed stability and serious focus on tackling the increasing number of challenges that businesses and people are facing on a daily basis.

“After the abject failure of the previous PM and the last-but-one Chancellor when they created a maelstrom of costly havoc in the national economy, many see the new PM as having a much better handle on what is needed to start to address some of the many problems people are facing.

“It is vital though that all the focus isn’t taken up by market reactions. Whilst they are important to the economy there are more fundamental issues that need addressing around skills, infrastructure, rising costs, energy and net zero that have felt, recently, like they have become secondary matters. It is however these day-to-day issues that most people care about and want urgent action on. The honeymoon period for the PM will be brief and hopefully we will see a positive plan quickly produced to get this country, its businesses and people, back on track in a fair and sensible way.”

ECA reacts to Rishi Sunak’s appointment as PM
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Leading electrotechnical and engineering services trade body association ECA has welcomed the appointment of Rishi Sunak as the new Prime Minister.

ECA’s Director of Workforce and Public Affairs Andrew Eldred said:

“We hope this latest development at number 10 will bring much-needed stability to the economy and provide welcome reassurance to our Members, who desperately need certainty to plan for the future.

“The electrotechnical sector is a crucial part of the construction industry, which forms the backbone of the UK’s economy. While ECA broadly supports Mr Sunak’s aim to fix the ‘profound economic crisis’ facing the country, we cannot overstate the importance of keeping electrification and decarbonisation front and centre of those plans.

“We eagerly await next week’s fiscal statement and urge Mr Sunak to prioritise green skills, infrastructure and incentives to boost our renewable energy sector, which in turn will help tackle rising energy bills.

“ECA is also keen to see Mr Sunak’s new government position the UK at the vanguard of decarbonisation on the world stage at COP27 in Egypt this November.”

ECA, which represents and supports nearly 3,000 businesses in the electrotechnical and engineering services industry, actively highlights the sector’s vital role in delivering Net Zero.

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Borderless Jobs – Filling the Sills Gap

Leading immigration specialists DRSI Global have set up a unique new platform Borderless Jobs to help UK employers secure access to overseas workers in the sectors struggling the most with skills shortages, such as care, IT, hospitality, construction and engineering.

In the second quarter of this year, UK job vacancies were at over 1.28m, the highest ever for the country, and a 94% increase on the year before. In the adult social care sector alone, there are 50,000 fewer nurses than there are roles needing to be filled. With such a large gap to fill, UK companies can benefit from looking abroad and maximising on the value that overseas workers can bring to the UK.

Currently, UK employers who are looking to hire skilled individuals from outside the UK are faced with a myriad of hurdles and hoops to jump through, including managing applicants’ sponsor licence applications and applying for work visas for their new hires. All of this red tape makes employing from outside the UK a time-consuming, onerous task and a lot of SMEs will abandon it at the first hurdle leaving them without the staff they vitally need. Equally, overseas workers who are looking to work in the UK lack access to the jobs/employers that are willing to hire foreigners and they are being turned away from most UK job boards as they don’t have a working visa. This is where Borderless Jobs will solve the problem.

DRSI has set up Borderless Jobs, a simple to use, one-stop, web-based platform to help all UK employers wishing to hire foreign workers for employment in the UK, taking the burden off employers and dealing with all the immigration challenges involved, as well as acting as a job board matching potential overseas employees to UK employers. Borderless Jobs is set to be a gamechanger for the recruitment industry, as employers can enjoy a truly streamlined service, saving them both time and money and expanding their search worldwide.

Borderless Jobs is effectively a job board giving non-UK job seekers a wraparound UK sponsor licence and work visa process management service that also exposes them to the open vacancies in the UK on a simple easy to use platform

The benefits of Borderless Jobs include:

  • No need for employers to battle the bureaucracy applying for their Sponsor Licence, transfering the Certificate of Sponsorship and dealing with the specific work visa applications for potential workers: Borderless Jobs does it for them as the process management systems are built into the platform.
  • No need for employers to find an immigration advisor or law firm to help with the application for the sponsor licence: UK immigration advisors DRSI Global power all the incorporated legal services through their OISC (Office of Immigration Services Commissioner) approved consultants.
  • UK employers can post a vacancy on the board and be matched with high quality applicants worldwide: there is a matching algorithm running on the site and KYC software is run on all jobseekers.
  • The hand-off of the certificate of sponsorship to the new employee is incorporated within these options.
  • Employers can be reassured that their new hire(s) is registered under the correct visa, swiftly finding the best applicant for the job and filling diversity quotas as well as empty positions.
  • Employers avoid the huge cost of staff churn and and the training costs associated as employees on a work visa stay on average for about 3-5 years with the same employer.
  • Employees are guided throughout the whole process on how to prepare themselves for the visa process once they are matched with an employer.
  • Simple and straightforward user experience for both applicants and potential employers.

 

DRSI’s CEO Daliah Sklar comments: “No economy wants to be faced with a skills shortage and, if jobs remain unfilled, this could have serious consequences. We’re excited by the prospect of our Borderless Jobs scheme, demonstrating to UK employers the value that can be found in overseas workers. After all, an improved economy will benefit everyone.

“By making it easier than ever for both job seekers and employers to cut through the red tape and match the best person to their perfect roles, we hope to show all the benefits that non-UK workers can bring. The issue here is not immigration but integration, which is hampered only by the bureaucracy of borders. We want to dispel the myths that media outlets often encourage about the disadvantages of “foreign” workers/immigrants. Once taught how to navigate these hurdles, we believe that quality non-UK applicants will help jump-start the UK economy.”

 

Not only will Borderless Jobs connect UK employers with potential applicants from across the globe, but it will also place special focus on ensuring the process is as fair and balanced as possible, promoting diversity wherever possible. CVs posted on the jobs board wil, initially,l not include personal data, ensuring that only applicants’ skills and work experience will be taken into account, preventing discrimination of any kind.

DRSI’s Borderless Jobs scheme will launch at the end of October and the firm is expecting a great deal of immediate interest from employers in the sectors with the highest skills shortages and hoping they will be the early adopters.

 

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The Hydro Ness – Small Project of the Year

THE Hydro Ness installation on the banks of the River Ness in Inverness has been named as Small Project of the Year at the British Construction Industry Awards.

The renewable ‘powerhouse’ uses the natural flow of the River Ness to generate electricity and incorporates a public viewing gallery and visitor attraction. The power generated will supply the nearby Inverness Leisure Centre and provide approximately 50% of its electricity needs.

The Highland Council said that the scheme is expected to reduce carbon emissions by over 140,000 kg per annum. This is also strengthened using natural resources in the form of an historically and ecologically important river.

It was delivered by the local authority with support from architects Leslie Hutt Architect; structural engineers Hasson Engineering Solutions; steelwork contractors, M. Hasson; and Sons Ltd; and the main contractors, Bradley and Company, Hydro NI.

 

Chair of the Highland Council’s economy and infrastructure committee, councillor Ken Gowans, said, “This is fantastic news, and the second time this innovative and important project has been recognised this month.

“Hydro Ness is a shining example of how Highland Council is already rising to the demands of the climate and ecological emergency, whilst helping to achieve our net zero emissions ambitions by 2025.”

 

Head of property & facilities management at the Highland Council, Finlay MacDonald, added, “The Project Team were delighted to be recognised at these national awards, which demonstrates how significant the project has been.

“There was excellent collaboration and great passion from all involved to achieve such a functional and unique structure. The project outcomes will leave a lasting legacy, which will benefit the local community, help develop skills, provide education and of course help the environment.”

Source: Project Scotland

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So Whose Next?

The Telegraph suggests that the percentages shown represent the chances of one of the above becoming the next leader of the conservative party and Prime Minister of the country. The rank outsider has of course already meddled in the role of Prime Minister and a few other also-rans are in the lower 10% but the outright leader is Rishi Sunak, running a good 18% ahead of Penny Mordaunt. Fortunately we only have to wait a week for an answer. The next big distraction could be a General Election!

In the meantime we, the people they represent, continue to shiver as we look to a winter without warmth accompanied by a sense of deepening dread, as the value of the pound in our pocket sinks lower against the cost of our necessary commodities.

Our industries, in particular construction, face a mountain of costs and regulation confusion that makes it hard to get on with the real job of rebuilding Britain.
Meanwhile they the government continue to quibble and the pound ping pongs, more down that up.

 

It really is time for some common sense, but sadly I am not convinced there is a candidate that can deliver such an out-dated virtue.

 

 

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So why doesn’t the construction industry simply shift to low-carbon concrete?

Nothing less than the future of the concrete industry – and the world’s climate – is at stake in a research project trying to devise ways to make low-carbon concrete viable.

Ten trillion cubic metres of concrete are made every year. This means that a lot of climate-warming carbon dioxide is emitted into the atmosphere using standard cement, which equates to 8 per cent of the world’s total CO2 emissions.

To accommodate a growing population and its associated demands, the global construction industry plans to add 2.48 trillion square feet (230 billion m2) of new floor area to the global building stock, effectively doubling global building stock by as early as 2060. This is the equivalent of adding an area the size of Paris to the planet’s building stock, every week. New building stock must be designed to meet net-zero-carbon standards, as explained by Lara Shear from The Planet Mark.

So why doesn’t the construction industry simply shift to low-carbon concrete? It’s been around for years and could reduce concrete-related carbon dioxide emissions by a fantastic 50 per cent. One of the most straightforward ways to reduce emissions from concrete production is to produce cement with blast furnace ash or fly ash. Unfortunately, it’s not quite the like-for-like swap it sounds.

 

“It is important to convince the concrete industry that investing in low carbon is worthwhile. We aim to ensure that the results of the project can be widely used by companies in concrete production and construction. Only in this way can climate emissions be reduced.”

– Dr Jouni Punkki
Professor of Practice in Concrete Technology, Department of Civil Engineering, Aalto University

 

Slower Strength Development

 

“Low-carbon concrete is by no means a new phenomenon,” agrees Dr Jouni Punkki, Professor of Practice in Concrete Technology at the Department of Civil Engineering at Aalto University in Espoo, Finland. “Using cement made using blast furnace ash or fly ash is the most effective way to reduce emissions from concrete production.”

However, according to Punkki, concrete using blast furnace ash cement is not more popular because of its slower strength development, compared to standard concrete. In the precast industry, for example, low-carbon concrete can take up to 18 hours after casting to be ready – much longer than normal. “Low-carbon blast furnace concrete has a slower strength development compared with the concretes made of conventional cements,” says Dr. Punkki. “This significantly extends the production cycle and reduces the profitability of concrete element production.”

 

The LOIKKA Project

 

Punkki is leading Aalto University’s contribution to the LOIKKA project. LOIKKA is a joint venture consisting of the Confederation of Finnish Concrete Industries, Confederation of Finnish Construction Industries, Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency, Aalto University, and five companies, including precast concrete technology expert Elematic. The project began in March 2022 and is due to run for two years. LOIKKA’s ambitious objective is to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from concrete construction in Finland by 50 per cent.

The project is investigating how to overcome the initial strength challenges of concrete and make blast furnace ash concrete more feasible in use. A major area of research in concrete technology at Aalto University’s Department of Civil Engineering is the use of digitalisation and automated measurement methods in concrete production.

“It is important to convince the concrete industry that investing in low carbon is worthwhile. We aim to ensure that the results of the project can be widely used by companies in concrete production and construction. Only in this way can climate emissions be reduced,” believes Dr. Punkki.

 

Waste-saving Precast Techniques

 

One of the companies supporting the project is Finnish precast concrete technology expert Elematic. “Elematic’s customers have hundreds of factories around the world,” says Jani Eilola, Director of Floor and Acotec Technologies at Elematic. “If we can help them make the transition to low-carbon concrete, it will have a big impact on the climate.”

The transition to low-carbon concretes poses a particular productivity challenge for precast concrete plants: how to maintain productivity when low-carbon concretes dry more slowly than conventional concretes.

One of the objectives of the project is to assess the carbon footprint of floor and wall precast concrete. As part of this Elematic will carry out test castings of low-carbon precast concrete elements. Based on the research, the company will determine what changes are needed to the production lines to make low carbon concrete a viable replacement for normal concrete in precast applications.

“With LOIKKA, we want to develop production technology in a way that maintains the current mould cycle,” says Elematic’s Eilola. “To speed up the introduction of low-carbon precast concrete elements for our customers, we are looking into alternate formulations of low-carbon concretes. Heat treatment of the concrete mix can also speed up drying and strength formation. The know-how we gain from this project can be shared with our customers around the world.”

 

Carbon Neutrality by 2025

 

Despite its current limitations Professor Punkki, who will join an Elematic panel discussions on the subject at Bauma, estimates that low-carbon cement production volumes will overtake conventional cement globally after the end of this decade, and carbon neutrality in concrete production could be achieved as early as 2035.

In terms of climate change mitigation, as well as competitiveness, there is much to be gained from a shift to low-carbon concrete. As a result of a more assertive climate policy, EU emission allowances are becoming more expensive and free allowances phased out. These costs will be passed from concrete production back up the value chain. Ultimately, building owners and users will pay the price. Therefore, if low-carbon options can be made viable, using low-carbon concrete will increasingly give companies a competitive edge.

 

Alternative & Additional Progress

 

Thanks to unique research from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, entire twenty-storey concrete buildings which can store energy like giant batteries could someday be a commonplace city reality. Researchers from the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering recently published an article outlining a new concept for rechargeable batteries made of cement.

The concept involves first a cement-based mixture, with small amounts of short carbon fibres added to increase the conductivity and flexural toughness. Then, embedded within the mixture is a metal-coated carbon fibre mesh – iron for the anode, and nickel for the cathode. After much experimentation, this is the prototype which the researchers now present.

ThisWeekinFM attended Design London for 2022 to cover new and interesting innovations in the world of property design and spoke to Ben Harries from Versarien about the company’s 3D-printed mortar. Using a cement-free, mould-free process they can build bespoke architecture, including building foundations. Especially in comparison to precast, the method is particularly cost-effective for projects with a variety of forms needed, and this technology is becoming cheaper to utilise for wider applications also, making it very valid for future net-zero construction.

 

Source: TwinFM

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Transmission Constraints Result in Wasted Green Energy

A record amount of wind power generation was turned down, new report suggests

In the week when Britain saw the “highest-ever” level of potential wind generation, there was a record of wasted energy, costing millions.

A new report by LCP Delta suggests in the week commencing 3rd October, the grid saw the highest ever available wind generation, peaking at 17.6GW of potential wind energy generated in the evening of the 5th October.

However, constraints on the transmission network meant only 14.1GW of this was able to be used with the rest being turned down.

The authors of the report note that the energy system experienced the second-highest ever wind curtailment in a single week, peaking at 4.5GW of turn-down actions on the 6th October.

It is estimated that this combined wasted energy could have powered more than five million households for a week.

Analysts say that as a result of the curtailment on wind and the need to fire up gas, coal and biomass power plants, the energy system had to pay £27 million across the week, a cost that is ultimately put onto customer energy bills.

Chris Matson, Partner at LCP Delta, commented: “The recent curtailment of wind is evidence of the paradox that the GB energy system faces.

“Growing generation capacity of cheap renewable energy to record-breaking levels but much of it in locations where supply regularly outstrips demand and a lack of transmission capacity to deliver this energy to where there is demand.

“The UK faces a bleak winter ahead with a cost of energy crisis and growing fears of blackouts. Cheap, green energy being switched off for more expensive generation that ultimately results in higher bills for customers is a bitter pill for many to swallow.”

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CALLING ALL ARCHITECTS: Competition for Major Housing Scheme Design

Council wants to run national competition for major housing scheme in Mansfield

Mansfield District Council is looking to launch a major competition inviting architects worldwide to design a significant new social housing scheme on a derelict site close to the town centre.

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) would manage the competition to find an outstanding design for Mansfield’s White Hart Street area.

 

The council purchased land in this area in order to facilitate the regeneration of this key town centre site. The area has stood derelict for over a decade now. It previously had planning permission for a mixed retail and residential scheme in 2008, but market conditions meant this scheme was never taken forward.

The area subsequently became blighted and has, as a consequence, become a magnet for anti-social behaviour. Redevelopment of this area would strongly align with the council’s Growth, Aspiration, Wellbeing and Place priorities.

Cllr Marion Bradshaw, Portfolio Holder for Safer Communities, Housing and Wellbeing, is now being recommended to approve a decision on 21 October about appointing RIBA to manage the competition.

Last year she approved a decision for the council to purchase parcels of land in the area so that the site, as a whole, could be redeveloped for council housing.

A budget of £16.5m for this was approved by Full Council in 2019 as part of the council’s programme to build over 100 council homes.

 

She said: “We want to improve this derelict and blighted part of Mansfield and see something really special on this piece of land.

“It must be a development which respects its historical significance and the conservation area in which it sits but also looks to the future. It also needs to be a development which is environmentally sustainable and mitigates climate change.

“It will promote a safe place to live and, crucially, it must reflect the council’s available budget for this scheme.

“The redevelopment would represent a vital element of the masterplan which we are in the process of putting together for the town centre to map out a future path for growth and regeneration.

“A key vision of that masterplan is to make the town centre a place where people want to live because this will increase the footfall for retailers and improve the look of the centre, all of which, in turn, should act as a catalyst for external investment.”

If approved by Cllr Bradshaw on 21 October, the RIBA-managed competition would cost the council a maximum of £79,000.

The council believes that having such an eminent organisation managing the competition would give the council access to the RIBA’s global membership and attract high-quality design responses.

Having RIBA on board is considered critical in the eyes of many architects and would also bring rigour, credibility and prestige to the selection process, and reassurance that the competition would be managed to best practice standards.

It would also help to ensure the whole process of redeveloping the site is structured and auditable.

Cllr Bradshaw added: “Running a RIBA-approved competition would promote the district of Mansfield nationally and internationally and demonstrate that, as a town, it is progressive in its aspirations and open for business. It would bring with it a real atmosphere of excitement.”

The firm winning the competition would progress the design for planning permission – subject to approval by the Full Council of the business case.

The area to be redeveloped is located within the Bridge Street conservation area which contains buildings of historic and architectural merit. The homes built are expected to be a mix of housing types and would be added to the council’s stock of affordable homes.

It is anticipated the design competition would run between November 2022 to March 2023, with a decision on the winner made in April 2023.

After that, a detailed design would be drawn up, with a decision on the business case expected in September 2023.

If that business case is approved, it would be followed by a planning application in October 2023. If that is approved, demolition work could start in early 2024 and building work in July 2024.

www.mansfield.gov.uk

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£4.6m grant supports Scotswood’s regeneration vision

Grant funding of £4.6million will support the construction of an additional 231 homes at The Rise, Scotswood, Newcastle.

The investment – from The North of Tyne Combined Authority (The NTCA) – forms part of its £32million Brownfield Housing Programme, which is regenerating brownfield sites and unused pockets of land across Newcastle, Northumberland and North Tyneside.

It is the second grant allocated from The NTCA to New Tyne West Development Company’s (NTWDC) popular regeneration scheme, which previously received £2.9million to support an uplift in construction on the second phase of its development programme.

A partnership between Newcastle City Council and Keepmoat Homes, NTWDC was established in 2011 to regenerate a 79 acre site in the west end of the city. Since building began at The Rise in 2013, the partnership has delivered almost 500 homes – 439 for private sale and the remainder for affordable rent and shared ownership.

 

Lee McGray, Director of NTWDC said: “The Rise is a flagship project in the North East, so it a real boost to the development to secure funding which will help support works on some of the infrastructure required to create these news homes – including retaining walls and works to highways.

“Together with the jobs, training opportunities and community support initiatives we’ve provided in the area, The Rise is breathing new life into this vibrant part of the city.”

 

NTWDC has improved access to employment, created 18 apprenticeship roles, safeguarded over 1000 jobs and backed a number of school and non-development apprenticeships projects.

Alongside this, local community and charity groups have benefitted from up to £75,000 each year from a fund set up by the partnership, to support a range of educational, art and environmental initiatives, celebrating the area’s history.

 

North of Tyne Combined Authority Deputy Mayor, Norma Redfearn CBE, who is the Cabinet Member for Housing, Land and Development welcomed the news, she said: “By using £4.6m of North of Tyne Funding we’re helping to build another 231 houses at this already popular development, The Rise.

“This means an extra 231 homes for our families, in a thriving neighbourhood and with great connections to the whole region.

“The investment will help create and secure jobs and mean more money in our local communities, much like we already have in North Tyneside and Northumberland. It is all part of the Combined Authorities’ approach to enabling our region to unlock its potential.”

 

Newcastle City Council’s Cabinet Member for a Dynamic City, with responsibility for housing, Cllr Irim Ali, said: “Newcastle is a growing city which like many other cities has a shortage of housing. It’s critically important that if we are to continue to grow, we build more housing to suit all pockets.

“I welcome this latest round of investment in the West End. Apart from new homes it will help train young people in construction skills that will give them job opportunities and the chance to get on in life which is just as important for social regeneration.”

 

When completed, The Rise will comprise around 1,800 homes with its own district heating system – already in place – and a neighbourhood centre, including community, retail and health provision space.

Keepmoat Homes has, in recent years, been one of the busiest private developers in Newcastle. Along with ventures in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Sheffield and Northfleet on the River Thames, The Rise is now one of the company’s key flagship projects.

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SONTAY LAUNCHES ITS SORA RANGE

Leading sensor manufacturer Sontay has launched SORA, its brand-new range of wireless sensors that bring unparalleled range and accuracy, to make all buildings smarter. The SORA range, which stands for Sontay Open Range Application, has been created to meet industry demand for wireless sensors as a result of the drive towards smarter buildings and infrastructure development.

The SORA range is powered by LoRaWAN wireless technology which enables long-range, secure and reliable connectivity in even buildings with thicker fabrics or layouts which would have been difficult for other wireless sensors. LoRaWAN is designed to wirelessly connect battery operated devices and is proven to go up to 10km without signal attenuation, ensuring consistent connectivity in building developments.

Speaking of the launch, Stacey Lucas from Sontay says: “We’re delighted to launch the SORA range of wireless sensors. LoRaWAN technology has really gained people’s confidence in wireless solutions, and it will mean many devices can now have ranges of 5KM or 10KM, which highlights its massive capabilities. The length of range formed part of our decision to name this new product SORA. Sora means ‘Sky’ in Japanese, which is an apt translation for how far the LoRaWAN wireless network can go!

Based on Sontay’s existing sensing range, the first SORA range comprises a selection of temperature, relative humidity and CO2 sensors, a LoRa to BACnet and Modbus gateway and a phone application for near field communication configuration of the sensors. The SORA gateway will provide options for use of cloud-based servers or local connection to the building management system.

The SORA range’s new LoRaWAN to BACnet gateway will help provide ease of upgrade of existing BMS to SORA devices. Coverage of tens of thousands of square feet will be enabled, providing brilliant connectivity.

The SORA range marks a key moment for Sontay as it continues to innovate products that meet the needs of its customers and ensure buildings perform efficiently.

 

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Ball Aboard for the ADSA Charity Golf Day

It was ‘ball aboard’ for the Automatic Door Suppliers Association (ADSA) Charity Golf Day which saw 23 teams take part at Branston Golf and Country Club, in Staffordshire, raising more than £3,000 for charity.

 

The event included a golfers’ breakfast prior to tee-off on an 18-hole championship course and culminated with dinner at the Pavilion, attended by 126 people. Winners of the new ADSA Cup – the previous trophy having been retained by Record UK after three successive wins – went to the Copper Jax Contract Maintenance team.

 

The company, based in Chatham, Kent, only became members of the association this year and it was the first time they had entered the event. Team FAAC was second and in third, was ADSA’s team. There were also individual awards for ‘nearest the pin’ on the 16th, 17th and 18th holes, longest drive on holes three and ten and a novelty putting competition on the practice green. All the competition holes were sponsored by ADSA members.

A raffle took place after dinner, with prized donated by members and suppliers. These included a meal for two at Marco Pierre White’s restaurant in London together with a Thames riverboat cruise, a Callaway golf bag, champagne, spirits, food hampers and gift vouchers.

All funds raised are being donated to ADSA’s chosen charities:

Golf Fanatics

YMCA Derby

The Royal British Legion

 

ADSA MD Ken Price said: “We were delighted by the response to our charity golf day. It has become a ‘save the date’ event in all our calendars. From early in the year, we were receiving calls asking when it would be, and within days of the date being announced, most of the playing teams were booked.

“We’ve had some lovely feedback. Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves and despite the current economic climate, gave generously, including members who couldn’t attend in person. We have raised a decent amount of money to share between our three charities and look forward to the next one!”

 

For more information on ADSA membership contact: rachel@adsa.org.uk or visit: www.adsa.org.uk

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