Greenwich lean time: Sir John Egan's lean construction techniques are alive and well on site at the Millennium Dome

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New champion of the Millennium Dome, Lord Falconer, has promised that the project will be ready in time for the new millennium. The Dome is actually a hugh stressed cable net structure, with a ring of 100 m tall masts supporting a net of steel cables, onto which a fabric roof is attached. The building services design is by consulting engineer Buro Happold, with the challenge of providing adequate power when the actual exhibits are not known. LV switchboards will provide power for the exhibits and Power Style III 1v were chosen for their flexibility.

Architecture, Structural elements (Construction)

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Olympian endeavours

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The electrical installation Skill Olympics finals will be held in St Gallen, Switzerland in July, and Cyril McAlister of electrical contractors John G McElwaine will represent the UK. He has already come through regional qualifiers in his native Northern Ireland, and the national event held during Electrotech in 1996. He will work with local cables and fabrication materials in a placement with a Swiss contractor in preparation for the finals, with two weeks intensive work on panel wiring.

Electrical equipment and supplies industry, Electric equipment industry, Competitions

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Special branch

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There have been significant improvements in the UK engineering sector, according to Specialist Engineering Contractors' Group Chmn Trevor Hursthouse. He feels that this group has achieved many benefits for its members.

Management, Interview, Industrial engineering, Hursthouse, Trevor

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