It is well accepted that the use of timber panel products began a century back when plywood was first manufactured in quantity. Aeons beforehand, the Egyptians also came to understand the benefit of gluing sections of timber together, enhancing the natural strength of wood fibres by alternating the direction of the grain. Today, as mankind struggles with huge population growth and consequential pressures on natural resources as well as the wider environment, engineered wood products present some of the best opportunities to provide people with ..

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Facility management is the part of the business that has always been under pressure to ‘do more for less’ and to deliver the magic 10% cost savings that the core business demands of it.As businesses start the slow road to recovery and begin to emerge from the pandemic and enforced lockdowns, facility management and its associated costs will again be under the microscope.Traditionally, these cost savings have come from market testing, outsourcing, re-tendering, re-scoping, head count reduction and other areas of efficiencies that have by ..

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This has led to the development of a Clivet solution that expands the EDGE PRO family with the new EDGE PRO L, a monobloc air/water heat pump designed for centralised residential and light commercial applications. This solution provides heating, cooling and domestic hot water in a natural and continuous way, even in larger buildings, thanks to technology that combines performance and ease of use. At the heart of the new EDGE PRO L is the scroll compressor with EVI technology, designed to offer efficiency and ..

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29-12-2025

Hark Systems, an energy analytics and industrial IoT company owned by SolarEdge, has worked with leading UK retailers including Sainsbury’s and Asda to analyse and optimise their energy use, buildings and industrial assets. In this feature, Hark Systems’ CEO Jordan Appleson discusses the benefits, challenges and transformative potential of real-time energy management in the supermarket sector. The supermarket industry is characterised by intense competition and slim margins. In this environment, optimising efficiency across every part of the business, from the supply chain through to onsite ..

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Facilities or Facility Management or just FM as many refer to it is an industry that supports an organization to achieve its objectives and goals through optimizing cost savings and efficiencies within the non-core areas of the business. Although this multi billion-dollar global industry has been established, for over 30 years, it is still misunderstood by many and is unknown to others. The purpose of this article is to define FM, its purpose, role and Critical Success Factors (CSFs), including how it can support organizations ..

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29-12-2025

Winter gritting sometimes can feel like a grudge purchase. It’s a cost you can’t avoid, for an overnight service that you often can’t see happening, to prevent risks that hopefully won’t happen. It’s like buying insurance, where efforts to compare options can feel like picking from identical offerings. But, like insurance, a wrong decision can only become apparent at the point when the service is really needed and when your provider fails to deliver. However, there is a real difference in offerings: The winter maintenance ..

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The main service requirement of any humidifier is associated to managing the limescale that is left behind when the unit either boils, evaporates or sprays water into the air. The Condair RO-E removes the minerals from the supply water before they are introduced to the humidifier, thus significantly reducing residual limescale following humidification. In steam humidifiers, this also improves humidity control, as the boiling chamber does not need to run dilution cycles to control mineral levels, and therefore water temperature and steam output is much ..

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