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Bill Martin - MD of Firstco
Featured in The Independent on
Thursday 19th October 2006 (Graduate - Careers/Engineers section) and
in The Independent Online at
http://education.independent.co.uk/graduate_options/article1897754.ece
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27 November 2007
Firstco's Three Peaks Challenge nets some £1,200 for COSMIC children's
charity
Seven members of staff at
Firstco, the technical consultancy, project management and systems
integration specialists - Rupert Exham, Darren Grey, Steve Haynes,
Peter Laing, Stephen Nuttall, Richard Tirrell and Colin Reynolds - have
completed the Three Peaks Challenge and, in the process, raised some
£1,200 for the Children of St Mary's Intensive Care (COSMIC) charity.
20 November 2007
Firstco oversees HEx Optical Transport Network upgrade
Firstco, the technical consultancy, project management and systems
integration specialists, have recently completed an upgrade to the
Heathrow Express (HEx) Optical Transport Network (OTN) system.
12 November 2007
Firstco's project management experience and expertise helps the Channel
Tunnel Rail Link
When Union Railways North (URN), a subsidiary of London and
Continental Railways (LCR), needed some experienced engineers on site
to report on progress and advise on problems involved in building part
of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL) - also known as High Speed 1 -
it turned to Firstco, the technical consultancy, project management and
systems integration specialists.
9 July 2007
Firstco delivers UK’s largest Allen-Bradley SIL2 ControLogix Project
Firstco, one of the UK’s leading technical consultancy, project
management and systems integration specialists, has just completed the
Customer Factory Acceptance testing of a ControLogix PLC system that is
believed to be one of the largest of its kind in Europe. The PLC
network architecture was specified by Firstco’s design team working, in
partnership with BAA, on the prestigious Terminal 5 (T5) Project at
London’s Heathrow Airport.
17th May 2007
Firstco executive in armoured trip to
France
Seven men - led by Simon P Blagden MBE and including Mark Calnan,
chairman of Firstco, one of the UK's leading technical consultancy,
project management and systems integration specialists - will be
spending the Bank Holiday weekend at the end of May traveling around
France in a Spartan Armoured Personnel vehicle.
29th March 2007
Firstco plays a part in the London
Crossrail project
Firstco, one of the UK's leading technical
consultancy, project management and systems integration specialists,
has completed initial functional design specifications (FDS) to enable
London Crossrail to submit its plans to the UK's Parliament for
approval.
19 March 2007
Firstco establishes companies in Dubai and Mauritius
Firstco, the technical consultancy, project management and systems
integration specialist, has opened companies in Dubai and Mauritius.
21 February 2007
Firstco uses Value Assured Engineering to save £millions
Thanks to the application of 'Value Assured Engineering' (VAE) by
Firstco, technical consultancy, project management and systems
integration specialists, the Heathrow Express station at Heathrow's new
Terminal 5 has seen an initial systems budget of £25m reduced to an
anticipated final cost of £19m - thus saving some 25 per cent on the
overall cost of the project.
26 July 2006
Firstco helps to extend Heathrow Express
BAA Heathrow Airport Ltd's Rail and Tunnels team selected
Firstco, the technical consultancy, project management and systems
integration specialists, to implement the Control & Communications
systems for the extension of the Heathrow Express rail service into the
new Terminal 5 at Heathrow. This Terminal is scheduled to open in March
2008.
24 July 2006
Refurbishment and relocation for the
Heathrow Express Control Room
Firstco, the technical consultancy, project management and
systems integration specialists, have completed the two-stage
relocation and refurbishment of the Heathrow Express Control Room (HECR).
The move was prompted because a new multi-storey car park was being
built directly above the site of the original control room.
19 July 2006
Low-light cameras help stop action
In the wake of the terrorist attacks in London on 7th July 2005,
the stations served by the Heathrow Express upgraded their CCTV system
- to improve the quality of the CCTV footage available and also to
speed up the process of providing relevant footage in the aftermath of
any incident.