News

EPBD Display Energy Certification (DEC) service launched

Smith Bellerby announces launch of Energy Performance in Buildings Display Energy Certification (DEC) service using the i-prophets software platform.

11 April 2008

Water savings

Water savings during week commencing 11th February 2008 for three of our clients has exceeded £28,800 - actual cheques received from the water companies!

14 February 2008

Personal calls on business mobiles - getting your money back (Part 1)

It has recently been estimated that the cost of personal calls made on mobile telephones provided primarily for business use accounts for up to 25% of the total cost of ownership. In this article we examine the different mechanisms that exist to help with the recovery of these costs, and in future articles we will look at some of the pros and cons of each of them.

01 October 2007

Energy Performance of Buildings Directive

We have been asked by a number of clients for details of the Directive and its likely impact on public sector buildings.

28 September 2007

Benchmarking mobile telephone usage and costs

We have been working with a number of clients to develop benchmarking data for mobile telecommunications and in this article we update this data.

26 September 2007

Recycling household food waste - The Low Carbon approach

Food waste presents a new challenge for local authorities for two reasons: first, food waste makes up about 25% of household waste and is 100% biodegradable; second, alternate weekly collections of bins containing food waste is not popular with householders. There is an emerging solution to this challenge which has the enticing benefit that it also involves low-carbon technology.

30 August 2007

Next Generation Networks - a technology update by Ian Cobley of Frontline Network Services

In June 2004, BT announced the most radical shake up of its nationwide network in the 25 years since the first digital switches were introduced. They are transforming their core network from old circuit-switched, narrowband technology to modern IP (Internet Protocol) broadband transmission, while leaving the copper access networks in place.

This new converged network (BT is calling it 21CN or 21st Century Network) will transform all calls into voice over IP (VoIP). It will be the first time a PSTN (public switched telephone network) has been ported to IP.

29 August 2007

Nokia BL-5C battery overheating problems

Nokia has identified that a batch of Nokia BL-5C batteries from their supplier Matsushita could, in vary rare cases, overheat whilst charging (not whilst being used).

24 August 2007

Energy Framework Agreement

Redditch Borough Council has recently entered into an innovative Framework Agreement for procuring energy. The agreement, which commenced on 01 June 2007, will streamline the administration activities associated with procuring gas and electricity for the next four years.

23 July 2007

Benchmarking public sector mobile telephone costs

We have been working with a number of clients to develop benchmarking data for mobile telecommunications.

19 July 2007