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Megatrends: smart building technology
Therefore by having large stocks we can help targets be achieved.
What are your future plans?
We have just added a range of stainless steel products into the VIP brand and hopefully by 2020 we plan the addition of a control valve range which will give a lot of extra value to using our VIP brand. We cannot see the political climate changing the demand for our products in the near future and with so much new building work on the go now and plenty planned we see a positive growth for the business.
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ach age most likely faces unprecedented changes and challenges, and this couldn’t be more true than right now. BSRIA press officer Clair Prosser explores this subject which is tackled in BSRIA’s new White
Paper ‘Megatrends: Smart Building Technology’. As a leading international industry body concerned with building services, BSRIA has always taken a keen interest in new and emerging technologies and their potential impact on the built environment. The general consensus emerging from the White Paper is that technology is in the process of transforming almost every aspect of society, with change happening at an “accelerating rate”. This is possible because of simultaneous rapid advances in several key areas of technology. Internet-based commerce is already transforming the world of physical
retail, replacing much of the traditional high street as we have known it. Web- based social media is already having a profound effect on commerce, politics and other social interactions. Indeed, current developments in technology could well have a much broader political and economic impact. Technological changes have always impacted on employment opportunities,
typically reducing or eliminating demand for some skills while creating new opportunities. Revolutions in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and in robotics now mean that even quite skilled jobs could be performed by machines in the near-future, raising the bar that a human has to jump to beat them. The balance of power between people, machines, companies and even countries is likely to shift dramatically. This will make the availability and the quality of the education available critically important.
Almost all of these technological revolutions are having or will have a big impact on construction and building services. Every aspect is likely to change from the way buildings are constructed to the way they are managed and interact with the people using them as well as with the world outside.
• Beehive continues to develop abilities further and plans to offer customers more than just coils in the near future. The company has designed, developed and started production on a new product for providing efficient and reliable cooling in office POD units - Podkool
• New enhanced efficiency Beehive lorries have just been delivered • Beehive is investing in staff and hopes to have refrigerant handling capabilities awarded soon • Completed transition from BS ISO 9001:2008 to the new ISO 9001:2015 standard to ensure Beehive remains at the forefront of the industry and runs the business in accordance with the latest British Standards requirements, ultimately ensuring the customer benefits from the resulting superior and reliable systems in place For a family manufacturing company which has been running over 50 years to remain as strong and ever present in the UK HVACR industry is certainly a substantial achievement in this day and age. I believe Beehive’s continued success and prominence in the UK market is thanks to the tenacious attitude of both my grandfather and father over the years. This has ensured we are company that is totally focused on
providing the best service and product possible to our customers at the best price achievable – whilst retaining the incredibly high quality standard we are and have always been renowned for.
Crystal ball specifically on robotics Customarily, much human work involves manual effort, requiring various levels of physical strength, flexibility and dexterity. For more than 400 years there have been efforts to mechanise production
processes formerly performed manually, from the first mechanical knitting machines through to the powered looms and lathes of the 19th Century and the production lines of the 20th Century. Mechanisation has been fastest in areas that require speedy and accurate
execution of well-defined and repetitive actions. It is only recently that the idea of a robot, which can be programmed to perform physically complex tasks, which in some cases may need to be varied over time, has become a “practicable proposition”. And, looking to the horizon, as tasks become more complex, so it becomes even more important for the robot to be able to sense things, such as the position or state of any objects that it is handling and to respond in an appropriate way, for example if it drops something. The White Paper is available (as a free copy) in combination with the
purchase of additional BSRIA studies. EMEA sales enquiries contact: BSRIA UK:
wmi@bsria.co.uk or call 01344 465540.
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