CONTENTS
CONTENTS
VOLUME 36 NO . 12 • DECEMBER 2016
CONTENTS …
Regulars
04 Industry News
All the latest news , views , events and industry information .
10 Contract News
Who is putting what in where .
14 Lighting Projects
High profile case studies from the lighting sector .
16 Editorial
Charity of choice .
18 Key Issue
Tessa Ogle highlights some of the programmes currently run by the Electrical Industries Charity .
Features
20 Training
Skills and qualifications news .
22 Project Focus
Russell Drury reports on REL ’ s work at the Tate Modern in London .
24 Competition
Win a contractor ’ s kit courtesy of Dimplex .
48 Products
A round-up of the latest products and services in the electrical contracting industry , as well as a look at some of the best products of 2016 .
28 EU Regulations
James Thomas of Siemens discusses the EU Regulations designed to improve the energy efficiency of induction motors .
Special feature : Data cabling
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Martin Rossbach of Nexans Cabling Solutions discusses the factors driving the need for high performance network cabling .
34 Jan-Wilem Hendriks and Ken Hodge of Brand-Rex examine the implications of the rise in Internet traffic and how these advances are driving the need for 10Gb / s in the horizontal network .
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Matthias Gerber of R & M highlights a few things to consider before introducing 4PPoE
Joergen Janson of Corning explains how power budgets can be conserved as data centres grow .
Liesbet De Soomer from Newell Brands highlights the importance of accurate cable labelling .
26 Outdoor lighting
Martin Thompson of Tridonic looks at how to provide reliable protection against overvoltages .
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