supply chain

Cross-sector climate commitment launched to accelerate supply chain decarbonisation

Nearly 30 organisations across the UK’s energy, transport, and built environment sectors, including signatories Schneider Electric, Wilson Transformers, Legrand and Fundamentals – supported by Scottish & Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) and City Electrical Factors (CEF) – have launched a new Climate Commitment aimed at strengthening aligned, measurable and accountable progress toward Net Zero. Developed by […]

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Martyn Bridges Reflects on Challenges Faced in 2022

Martyn Bridges, Director of Technical Services at Worcester Bosch, reflects on the challenges we faced in 2022 and looks ahead with an optimistic viewpoint on the year ahead: 2022 was a particularly challenging year for the world, with first the Russian-Ukrainian war, which resulted in an energy crisis. In addition to this, we have seen […]

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Crisis Affecting Industry

In his exclusive column,  Tim Pollard takes a look at how the industry could be affected by global issues as we head into winter.  Crisis? What Crisis? I’m an optimistic kind of chap, I always see the sun shining through the clouds. But even I have found the currently growing avalanche of crises a tad […]

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Opinion: Where have all the boilers gone?

In his exclusive column for Installer, Heating Engineer Andy Gibbs shares his experiences as he struggles to secure the boilers to fit for his customers: I’ve been doing this job a long time, compared with most, coming up to 32 years now, and in that time I have never encountered a situation like the one […]

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Construction industry set for growth despite potential supply issues

The Construction Products Association (CPA) forecasts that output in the industry will grow by a robust 4.3% in 2022, slowing to 2.5% in 2023 compared to the 13.3% seen in 2021. This demonstrates the remarkable resilience of the sector to the initial Covid-19 lockdown and the end of the Brexit transition period in 2020. Housebuilding, […]

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