Although officially retired from his full time role with the NICEIC, industry legend, Tony Cable, has not disappeared completely from the electrical industry scene, and Scolmore is enjoying having him on board in a consultancy role with the business. Tony will be joining forces with the nation’s favourite sparky, Billy Byrne, on the Scolmore stand…
Pinnacle Training Solutions, a specialist personal development training company, have announced the formation of a new sales and marketing department. Barry Hall, who has over 30 years’ experience in sales and management in electrical wholesaling and manufacturing, will head-up the new division. He will be assisted by the newly appointed Maria Dubocquet as sales and…
New independent assessments of the potential impact of Brexit have revealed there could be 43,000 fewer jobs in construction post the EU withdrawal negotiations. According to expert independent economic analysis commissioned by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, a no deal hard Brexit could lead to ‘a lost decade – or even longer – of…
The Electrical Distributors’ Association will lead a 30-strong visiting delegation to Frankfurt’s Light + Building 2018, the world’s largest trade fair for lighting and building services technology in March. Representing billions of pounds in purchasing power, the EDA visiting delegation includes senior executives from around 20 wholesaling companies, plus representatives from the Presidential teams at…
Multitech has joined international engineering group SDIPTECH in an agreement signed on 29th December 2017. Formed in 1998 by Guy and Samantha Scilly, Multitech Site Services is an award winning temporary site services company that supplies many of the largest UK construction and development businesses with temporary electrics, lighting, plumbing and complimentary site services. The…
REL has been selected to provide electrical services at an £11m technical skills centre, which is the first of its kind to be located at a major UK airport. Harlow College, in partnership with London Stansted Airport, is bringing forward the two-storey facility, which will be located on land made available by the airport. It…
The City of London is getting taller. With 13 new schemes consented, under construction or due to start construction in its eastern cluster, the pipeline means that the City skyline will look a lot different in ten years’ time. Around 60% of the City’s growth is expected to be delivered in the eastern cluster. As…
With less than one year to until the 18th Edition of the IET Wiring regulations is published NICEIC and ELECSA has set up an information hub with everything an electrician will need to know. The website www.18edition.com contains all the latest news and information relating to the new standard. Mark Smith, marketing and communications director…
The Electrical Industries Charity is offering a once in lifetime opportunity to visit one of the seven wonders of the world while showing your support for the Dickinson family. You could take on the Great Wall of China trek in 2018 which stretches 6000 km in a dotted line across China. During this trek, you…
With the UK having already experienced some severe winter weather, the Approved Cables Initiative (ACI) is advising contractors and distributors to check their cable choices carefully following the discovery of significant quantities of substandard arctic grade flex. Recent market surveillance has detected failures on numerous examples of arctic grade flexibles including pre-assembled industrial hook-up leads….