New construction regulations

'Files to go' with Fetch

The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007 (CDM 2007) take effect in April. Replacing regulations dating from 1994 and 1996, they aim to integrate health and safety into the management of construction projects.

CDM 2007 will remove clients' ability to discharge their obligations to third parties. If you are about to embark on a construction project, or are considering the possibility of doing so, now is the time to bring yourself up to speed on the detail of the changes.

As businesses and other organisations adopt hot desking and desk sharing policies, traditional filing systems can prove restrictive. Templestock's Fetch range of personal mobile storage units is an innovative solution to the problem.

Each unit contains a suspension file drawer and storage for stationery and personal items, is securely lockable and has a handle and castors for easy movement around the office. A slot allows memos and notes to be posted into the unit when its owner is out of the office.

Fruit, water and indoor lawns

Beating the clock for RR Donnelley

In recent years there has been increasing interest in making offices more people-friendly. At one end of the scale there is the simple provision of tea and coffee making facilities, while at the other are the avant-garde advertising agencies' sofas, table football games and dart-boards.

So, what works and what doesn't? Here's an article looking at the issues, and putting forward 'Five of the best' - including the provision of fruit and water - and 'Five of the worst' - including (really) indoor lawns.

When RR Donnelley, specialists in document fulfilment, needed to move much of their production capacity from Hungerford in West Berkshire to Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, they called on Newbury Interiors to undertake the necessary refurbishments to the two sites.

Working on several fronts and to tight deadlines, the interior specialist advised on design options, fitted new partitions and ceiling solutions, installed cabling for power, IT systems and telecoms, moved a staircase and fitted out a new computer server room.