As the Government eases lockdown restrictions in England in a bid to restart the economy, some businesses are making their plans to re-open. The Government has issued a set of guidelines to ensure safe working, [read more…]
During his conversations with main contractors across the UK over the past weeks and months, Vas Carp, Managing Director of LV Construction Ltd, has noticed that the impact of Covid-19 on the construction industry is [read more…]
Honeywell has launched an integrated set of solutions to help building owners improve the health of their building environments, operate more cleanly and safely, comply with social distancing policies, and help reassure occupants that it [read more…]
Plans for a post-Covid-19 revival of the UK construction sector have been published today (Monday 1st June) by the Construction Leadership Council’s Covid-19 Task Force. The Task Force, which represents the entire construction supply chain [read more…]
While many sectors more naturally aligned to remote working have adjusted to new working practices during Covid-19, the construction industry has come up against particular challenges. The very nature of the job meant that construction [read more…]
With the current pandemic, health and safety in the construction industry has never been so important. After analysing recent data from the Office of National Statistics (ONS), Yorkshire Brickwork Contractors found that construction has a [read more…]
Stuart Harrow, Transportation Director of Dougall Baillie Associates, outlines the impact Covid-19 will have on transport planning and road infrastructure in the future. One of the first things which comes to the forefront of the [read more…]
Joe Hudson, CEO of Ibstock Plc, the UK’s largest provider of clay and concrete building materials, explains why the government’s latest lockdown announcement signals hope for the construction sector. In the Government’s most recent review [read more…]
The Heating and Hotwater Industry Council, HHIC, together with the heating industry has created a useful guide offering advice to frontline heating engineers on operating safely during the Covid-19 crisis. These are based on Government [read more…]
With the government now a week into its 50-page roadmap out of lockdown, a new report suggests that UK construction firms were the least prepared for the rise of remote and flexible working pre-lockdown. The [read more…]
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