NEWS
PEERLESS WARRANTY LAUNCHED BY ARMSTRONG CEILINGS
Armstrong Ceilings has launched a systems warranty that exceeds anything else out there in the market.
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he first 30-year warranty in the ceiling systems sector has been launched by Armstrong to meet specifiers’ and contractors’ increasing focus on risk management. Unique to Armstrong, the 30-year ceiling system warranty is designed to give 30 years of total confidence in the system specifiers have chosen.
Armstrong Ceilings currently offers standard product warranties of 15 years on a selection of tiles and 15 years on selected suspension systems as well as a lifetime warranty on its Dune Max, Dune Supreme and Dune dB mineral tiles with 99% humidity resistance. Now it has launched the new 30-year warranty for mineral and most of their metal tiles with 95% and higher humidity resistance when combined with a selection of its market-leading grids. A 30 year warranty for the Axiom Canopy range is also available when installed with tiles that are 95% RH and above. Advances in
ceiling technology and engineering are placing increasing pressure on the product knowledge of specifiers and specialist
sub-contractors and the systems guarantee has been designed to give them all peace of mind. Davroy Ceilings have worked with Armstrong for 25 years and are a member of the manufacturer’s approved Omega network of specialist sub-contractors. Director Paul Durber said: “Architects and end users will like this new 30-year warranty, particularly for the bigger projects, so it is a good selling point for Armstrong and for us. It will help us to win work.
“Unlike some other installers who use competitor grids with Armstrong tiles we have always used the two together but being able to attach the new warranty to a quotation will enable us to offer our customers even greater value for money.
“I suppose strictly speaking it does mean you could get call-backs
in however many years’ time but having said that, we have never had an issue with an Armstrong product we have installed and we use an awful lot of them.”
More than just a performance warranty, the new 30-year warranty guarantees that the Armstrong system has been tested and accredited for its key technical attributes and site tested to demonstrate installation integrity and simplicity. In addition, it will also be free from defects in design, material and workmanship if properly installed and used under normal conditions.
For more information, please visit
http://www.armstrong.co.uk/commclgeu/eu1/uk/gb/guarantee.html
83% of public sector organisations say employees are biggest threat to data
Despite risk of loss or misuse, over 40% store confidential documents on site T
he biggest threat to public sector data comes from employees, a new PHS Data Solutions survey has shown. 83% of the 141 senior public sector managers and other staff polled by Ingenium said they were most concerned about internal loss or misuse, with just 10% worried about the external threat posed by hackers.
Despite this, only 18% use a secure managed offsite records
facility, with 41% storing data on-site and 21% relying on staff to dispose of documents using general waste, recycling bins and office-based shredding machines.
“Physical records stored within public sector buildings are extremely vulnerable to being lost or misplaced by employees,” says Anthony Pearlgood, managing director, PHS Data Solutions. “As well as the threat of fraudulent activity, internal shredding and storage can increase the risk of records being saved or destroyed incorrectly. Here, guidance from an accredited records management and shredding provider can help public sector organisations achieve a safe, compliant approach – and avoid costly and damaging mistakes.”
Several recent high-profile information security violations in the public sector have involved personal data being passed on to third parties electronically following Freedom of Information requests.
However, the threat posed by accidental loss or deliberate misuse of physical documents and IT equipment also remains. Earlier this year, one council breached the Data Protection Act by losing sensitive social security records. In 2011, a computer and some papers containing the personal information of 7,200 people was discovered in a skip, having been left in a vacated council building and disposed of by the new tenant. According to the Information Commissioner’s Office, common areas for improvement needed in the public sector involve asset management around printers, faxing, laptops and removable media devices, the movement of manual records and the transfer of electronic records along with the disposal of personal data held in manual and electronic form. “The Code of Practice for Archivists and Records Managers under Section 51(4) of the Data Protection Act 1998 confirms the fact that many breaches are accidental and result from insider action or inaction,” added Pearlgood. “It also emphasises the requirement for proper disposal of data, advising that unwanted documents are disposed of by shredding, pulping or incineration. Electronic data should also be disposed of securely and in such a way that it cannot be reconstructed.”
www.phs.co.uk
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