Category: Industry News

Our expert answers a question from a Voltimum user regarding the outside diameter of twin and earth cable. Question: Quite often you find a T&E coming into a CU or box with no visible markings or stripped too far back, and it is difficult to estimate the CSA from just looking at it with stranded cables. Are there any tables that give the outside diameters of the conductors for the CSAs…

Leading manufacturer of cable management systems, Marshall-Tufflex, has been recognised by the British Chambers of Commerce as a ‘UK Business Hero’ for its immediate response to meet demand for its antimicrobial trunking for the emergency NHS Nightingale Hospitals. Launched in early October by the British Chambers of Commerce, the UK Business Heroes campaign recognises the incredible work that UK businesses have undertaken to combat the challenges presented by COVID-19. Marshall-Tufflex…

JTL, the leading national training provider for electrical and heating and plumbing apprenticeships, has partnered with London South East Colleges (LSEC) to provide a programme of Traineeships in Electrical and Plumbing. The Traineeship programme gives young people, aged 16- 24- year olds, an opportunity to develop skills and confidence in order to take their first steps into their chosen career. The six-week programme gives trainees an insight into the industry,…

Self-employed electricians earned an average of £1,074 a week last month – the equivalent of a £52,000 annual salary. Hudson Contract, the construction industry’s biggest payer of subcontractors, said earnings increased by 5.6 per cent during October. It was the fourth consecutive month in which weekly pay was above the £1,000 threshold.  Electrical contractors in Yorkshire and the Humber saw the strongest growth in October (up 31.7 per cent) followed…

Klein Tools talk about how coronavirus has had an effect on the way apprentices will learn in this academic year. How is COVID-19 pandemic affecting apprenticeship programs? Delivery will be different, technology will play a much bigger part in sharing knowledge, and creating teaching resourcesPractical sessions will be different, it is hard to imagine an environment where students will be sharing tools for exampleNumbers will drop considerably; with the slowdown…

FIVE new apprentices have started work at Halton Housing, says Runcorn and Widnes World. The firm welcomes Ben Jones (Business Admin Apprentice), Maciej Gretkowski (ICT Apprentice), Daniel Rogers (Joinery Apprentice), Rhys Gwillym (Joinery Apprentice) and Jamie MacDonald (Electrical Apprentice). The apprentices will learn the skills needed for specific roles by shadowing colleagues and gaining hands-on experience ‘on the job’. At the same time, they will also be studying for an…

Most people today will live somewhere that is capable of becoming a smart home. This shows how far processing power has developed in the last two decades, giving the public access to products that were at one time only available to the super-rich. ‘Intelligent households’ have been in development since the late 1960s and the idea of ‘home control systems’ can even be traced back to the turn of the…