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At HavMain we take pride in taking on the best apprentices and giving them the skills and experiences to prepare them for their future career. Academic performance and enthusiasm are crucial when applying, and we will only consider a candidate with at least 5 GCSE’s at grade C or above and we expect to see [...]
Millennium and Copthorne hotels have announced to their 2000 suppliers that they are setting up a supplier registration programme meaning suppliers will now have to pay up to £510 plus VAT in order to bid for work. The claimed purpose of the programme was to enable them to collect information to pre-qualify potentially suitable companies [...]
A Cornish gas contractor has been cleared of manslaughter but found guilty of breaching gas safety regulations following the death of a hotel guest in Newquay Great Western Hotel.
Mark Mingo replaced the central heating system for the hotel in 2005. He ordered a boiler flue attached to the hotels wall and told a colleague [...]
Boiler Servicing – what it should involve
In Torquay just as anywhere else its likely at some point in time you’ve had that uneasy situation of watching a plumber waltz into your home tinker about on your boiler for 5 minutes and then leave with a substantial invoice.
What we [...]
Boiler servicing is crucially important if you want to avoid the risks from Carbon Monoxide poisoning. Leaving no smell and having no taste Carbon Monoxide is very dangerous and toxic. 30 people die each year from Carbon monoxide poisoning and this year we almost saw its most famous casualty [...]
The CIBSE reports that an average of one building every minute will need to be refurbished between now and 2050 to meet the national targets for carbon emissions reduction.
Reducing the UK’s carbon emissions to meet government targets of an 80% reduction by 2050 will require an enormous effort, including tackling the energy efficiency of [...]
With news that construction group Kier plans to muscle in to the facilities management sector we are awaiting to find if the increase in competition across the management companies will spell good or bad news.
If Dalkia/MITIE are anything to go by taking on the management and delivery of these national facilities management contracts [...]
New gas boiler installation Torbay? Now might be just the time to start thinking about it. Circumstances seem to be transpiring against anyone wanting to keep heating costs down at the moment.
Political instability in the Arab world traditionally leaves serious fall out when it comes to oil prices. Only yesterday Texaco on Newton road [...]
There has been possible outbreak of legionellosis, a lesser form of legionella disease, at the Playboy Mansion. It is currently being investigated by Los Angeles County health officials.
Around 170 people became sick after attending a fundraiser at the mansion and it is thought they possibly contracted from the disease from the mansion’s hot tubs [...]
HavMain, building services engineers from Paignton, won the Workforce Development category, sponsored by South Devon College’s Business Advantage department.
