Former Armed Forces personnel have the perfect traits for careers in construction and logistics, according to one of the country’s leading suppliers of building materials, SIG Distribution, which has provided a range of careers for [read more…]
The UK construction sector employs around 3m people of which only 13% are women – a proportion that has barely risen since the recession in 2008. However, the opportunities for women in construction remain rich [read more…]
GMB, the construction union, has revealed it will take nearly 200 years to achieve gender equality in the construction industry. The analysis, revealed at GMB’s annual Congress in Brighton today (Tuesday 11 June), shows at [read more…]
A group of developers, contractors and housing associations have today (Thursday 6 June) launched a new Building Safety Charter in a call to action to raise the bar for building safety. The Early Adopters Group, established last summer following Dame Judith Hackitt’s Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety, signed the Charter during its initial unveiling in London, where it was backed by the Housing Minister, Kit Malthouse MP. [read more…]
The spring 2019 edition of the bi-annual London Development Barometer (LDB) survey by M3 Consulting was taken in mid-April to compile a snapshot of market sentiment just after the announcement of the latest Brexit extension. [read more…]
The announcement to suspend or remove some of the worst offenders follows chief executive of the NFB Richard Beresford’s call to action for the Government to show the industry its teeth in enforcing existing payment [read more…]
Crane driver Katie Kelleher has worked on both land and water, lending her expertise to two major London infrastructure projects – Crossrail and Tideway. She is working hard to try and change the face of [read more…]
Following significant growth in the use of mobile plant equipment in the UK, Bureau Veritas is warning firms to be vigilant when it comes to achieving compliance. It comes as the UK Mobile Elevated Working [read more…]
With cyber attacks becomingly more costly and targeted, complacency towards cyber security not only places contractors’ own systems at risk, but also that of suppliers and partners within their supply chain. Bryan Banbury, Managing Director [read more…]
Guy Other, CEO at Orbis Protect, a leading player in the property security and lone worker markets, discusses how to keep void properties secure. Construction in the UK contributes billions every year to the UK [read more…]
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