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...More than a third of Equans’ 74,000 workers, specialising in everything from installing fire sprinklers to heating systems for industrial clients, are in France....
...The former chair of the Nasdaq stock market’s confession that his fabled investment company was “one big lie” came at the depths of the financial crisis and riveted global attention....
...When an executive managed to set off the hotel sprinkler system at a 2018 away day, it was Stankey who rushed to the alarm room to try to fix it....
...Now they are looking at it saying their profits will be hit by putting sprinklers in,” he said. “Guys, you are the richest industry on the planet.”...
...After Nest’s $3.2bn takeover by Google in 2014, there was a spurt in growth in the number of connected devices targeting the home, from smart sprinklers to intelligent toothbrushes....
...Meanwhile, Birmingham city council announced its residential tower blocks would be fitted with sprinkler systems and other fire suppression measures following the Grenfell Tower disaster....
...He added “the use of sprinklers has a role to play” and that “it would be possible to build fire-resisting walls on all buildings but the costs would be unreasonable and unnecessary”....
...Such systems use technology to help better manage cities, such as cameras that detect when people are smoking in prohibited zones or park sprinklers that can assess the dryness of the ground....
...Two years ago, the hype around the “smart home” was deafening: all the leading tech companies bet big money that consumers would want to connect lights, security cameras and thermostats — or even lawn sprinklers...
...Lowe’s uses the AlertMe technology to offer a smart home solution called Iris that connects to everything from sprinklers to garage doors to smoke detectors....
...The company was “disappointed by the state’s decision to file a lawsuit on a matter that we believe can be resolved outside of court”, Mr Reint says....
...Anglo Platinum’s 2000 annual report could be mistaken for a girlie mag, with images of a bikini-clad model cooling off under a sprinkler and an apparently naked blonde sucking on an orange lolly....
...Only after the fire is squelched, do you redesign the sprinkler system....
...No insurance company would provide fire insurance without demanding adequate sprinklers; none would leave it to “self-regulation”. But that is what we have done with the financial system....
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