With less than 12 months to go until the 2012 London Olympics, Advance Security will  look at how the Games will affect the security and continuity measures for businesses in the City of London. Speaking at the breakfast seminar will be: David Evans - Project Director - 2012, BSIA Awarded the Imbert Prize for the development of the 'Bridging the Gap' Project, David is responsible for bringing together the work of the BSIA for the 2012 Olympic Games Jonathan Crabb - Head of Development Services URS/Scott Wilson Jonathan is supporting the Olympic Delivery Authority through the ...

MITIE has won a £4.5m design & build contract with leading insurer Friends Life. The FTSE 250 strategic outsourcing and energy services company will upgrade two 30,000 sq. ft. buildings in Maidenhead to comply with current building regulations as well as ensuring that they are an attractive letting proposition in the current market. The fully refurbished building will feature new floors and ceilings, with impressive reception areas with stone desks and walls. The work comprises a shell and core strip out followed by a refit to CAT A. The project includes the removal of walkways connect...

MITIE has been awarded an £11m contract to provide mechanical, electrical, public health and specialist services for a new 10,000m² building for the Department of Materials, Science and Metallurgy in Cambridge. The project involves the construction of a number of specialist laboratory facilities including an electron microscopy suite. MITIE, specialists in energy efficiency and sustainability, has designed a mixed ventilation system to maximise the use of natural ventilation supplemented by mechanical cooling. An open loop cooling system will recycle water throughout the building and rain...

Thousands of council tenants will soon receive more affordable energy thanks to the first partnership of its kind where the public and private sectors have worked together to tackle fuel poverty. MITIE, the outsourcing and energy services company, has partnered with Camden Council, in north west London, to provide surplus heat from its new energy plant at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead. The surplus heat from the hospital plant will be piped to a new energy centre in the Gospel Oak area of Camden to provide hot water and heat to residents. As a result, up to 1,500 council home tenants w...

G4S Secure Solutions (UK), the UK’s  leading security solutions company, has declared this year’s V Festival, a security and safety success with the lowest level of recorded incidents in the event’s 15 year history. G4S Events, Europe’s leading independent event security company, deployed 1,600 specially trained personnel for the event at Weston Park, Staffordshire on the 20-21 August.  The G4S team provided a full range of event security and safety services, which included crowd management, campsite patrols, safety and security stewarding, access control, protection for VIP areas...

Loomis UK have just recently collaborated with the BBC in developing a programme focused on commercial robbery. The programme, 'Catch Me If You Can - Armed Robbers', takes a look some high profile past cases. In addition, the programme examines CViT (Cash & Valuables in Transit) robbery and challenges these pose to the physical management of cash. It is here that cash management specialist, Loomis UK provides specific insight. Robert Cummings, Loomis UK's Head of Loss Prevention shares what the police, Loomis and the CViT industry as a whole, have done to rise to the challenge of the...

It is a case of friends reunited as 360 Vision Technology, the UK’s number one CCTV manufacturer, moved fast to snap up the services of Adrian Kirk as their new sales manager, reuniting Adrian with the Predator camera he has already spent several years promoting. Adrian is a well respected figure in the industry, having spent the last 15 years as a national sales and business development manager for some of the biggest names in security technology, including Crime Prevention Services, PMD Technologies, Leerose Integrated Systems and Reliance Security Services and is now further enhancing hi...

Ward Security has recently taken over the security provision at Slough Borough Council’s Customer Service Centre – and the changes have been instantly noticeable. The Council opened the centre in 2005 as part of a £20million project to improve customer services by providing a high street location focused on providing all council services in one easily-accessible place. “We are the first point of contact for Slough residents, and it is this front of house service that the Ward Security officers support,” says Tina Hancock, customer services operations manager. “We needed to change...

MOBOTIX AG is a software company with an in-house hardware development department for digital, high-resolution and network-based video-security solutions. The company focuses on the development of user-friendly system solutions – complete from a single provider. The publicly-traded company with its headquarters in Langmeil, Germany, is known as the leading pioneer in network camera technology since its founding in 1999, and has made high-resolution video systems cost-efficient with its decentralized camera concept. From 2010 onwards, MOBOTIX continues to extend its product range to include i...

Industry Qualifications (IQ) has announced that it has been approved by the SIA and the qualifications regulator Ofqual to offer the license linked qualification for both the Security Guarding and CCTV operators from the 1st September 2011. IQ anticipates that the license linked qualification for door supervisors will also be available from early September ‘We believe that IQ will bring a new approach to awarding activity in the sector,” said Raymond Clarke, Chief Executive of IQ. “We have designed our processes, customer service and user interfaces to ensure that they are at least as g...