National M&E consultancy Couch Perry Wilkes (CPW) has demonstrated its dedication to promoting gender equality in engineering as it welcomes two new trainees to its East Midlands offices. Zoe Fittock joins the team in Leicester [read more…]
Swimmer Andrew Mullen has paid tribute to housebuilding company Mactaggart & Mickel for its financial support that means he can set his sights on Paralympics Gold this summer. Amid the uncertainty created by the coronavirus [read more…]
To mark Time to Talk Day, Esh Construction is backing the industry-wide efforts to open up the dialogue on mental health, as workers continue to combat the mental strain of the Covid-19 pandemic. Speaking about [read more…]
Leading homelessness charity, SIFA Fireside, is inviting the construction and civil engineering sector to be part of an innovative new concept called Building Employability. The new scheme seeks to increase training and employment opportunities across [read more…]
Laing O’Rourke has called for more regular rapid testing across the construction industry to help find asymptomatic cases quicker and stop transmission. This support of the UK Government’s ambition to expand testing and target workers [read more…]
Leading staircase and door solutions manufacturer, Stairways Midlands, is reducing its lead time by up to 50% on staircases to better meet the challenging needs of the construction industry. It has used the last six [read more…]
Created by Engweld. New enforcement expectations require all businesses undertaking welding activities to ensure that effective engineering controls are provided and used correctly to control fumes arising from welding activities. It is now advised that larger [read more…]
Exactly three years ago the British Armed Forces finally opened all roles to women. Since then applications for the frontline have doubled and 20% of the 80,000 applicants the Army received last year were female. [read more…]
As the lessons of the Greenfell tragedy continue to be learnt, Jonathan O’Neill OBE, Managing Director of the Fire Protection Association (FPA), outlines how it is incumbent upon building owners, or anyone responsible for building [read more…]
Almost a third of construction firms in the UK have seen an employee move on because their mental wellbeing wasn’t being looked after, with one in five losing a key member of their workforce, according [read more…]
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