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Jonathan Wall presented with Ransomes Jacobsen cup
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onathan Wall, assistant greenkeeper at the Royal Hong Kong Golf Club, was presented with the 2011 Ransomes Jacobsen-sponsored best student award at Myerscough College’s recent graduation ceremony. Jonathan graduated with a BSc (Hons) degree in Turfgrass Science and was presented with the Ransomes Jacobsen Cup in recognition of his commitment and contribution to the study programme.
“Jon was of the three students from Myerscough selected by the R&A to examine sustainable management practices on a field visit to the Isle of South Uist,” comments course tutor Dr Andrew Owen. “He also completed an excellent research dissertation on the effects of heat stress on agrostis stolonifera (creeping bent grass).” Also presented with a Ransomes Jacobsen sponsored award was James Wood, a National Diploma student who won the Ransomes Jacobson Turf Machinery Practical Award. “James has been produced high quality work,” continues Dr Owen. “He has volunteered for extra duties and contributed to every teaching session.”
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Total Gas & Power Scoops Prestigious Community Award for Primary School Initiative
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otal Gas & Power, one of the UK’s leading gas and electricity suppliers to businesses, has scooped a prestigious national award for the company’s educational Total Green School Awards initiative.
The awards initiative was established in partnership with the Young People’s Trust for the Environment, encouraging primary school children aged five to eleven to take a proactive interest in the natural environment around them. With over 25,000 young people taking part from schools across the country each year, the initiative brings environmental issues to life, rewarding pupils for thinking about ways we can live in harmony with nature. As part of the initiative, schools undertake a wide range of projects. These have included the creation of an interactive nature reserve and the production of a documentary video detailing energy saving measures.
Total beat off stiff competition from across the UK’s utilities sector to win the coveted ‘Community Initiative of the Year’ award at the Utility Industry Achievement Awards, held at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel. Judges were impressed with the breadth of the scheme and the way it tied into the national curriculum.
“This award is fantastic recognition of the importance Total Gas & Power places on education and innovation in helping to shape the future of environmental sustainability. The hard work our staff put in to exciting young people’s imaginations and inspiring them to think about the world around them is something that I think we can all be very proud of,” said John Shead, Director, Total Gas & Power.
January 2012
Portakabin to supply modular buildings to the public sector
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overnment Procurement Service has awarded a four-year framework agreement to Portakabin for the supply of modular buildings to the public sector. Customers selecting Portakabin will benefit from rapid procurement and cost-effective modular building solutions, avoiding costly, compulsory competitive tendering.
The new framework agreement includes the supply of modular buildings for both sales and hire and for applications including offices, kitchens and restaurants, education facilities for nursery, primary, secondary and further education; and in the healthcare sector, buildings for consultation, patient accommodation and operating theatres. As a result of the new agreement, public sector organisations and Government departments will have access to the technical expertise offered by Portakabin and a wide range of modular building solutions as well as its network of more than 50 hire centres across the UK. Government Procurement Service framework suppliers are available to any organisation that is more than 50% publicly funded and private sector specifiers working for the public sector. u0845 401 0010
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