GEZE UK wins NHS contract
GEZE UK has been successful in securing a five-year contract in conjunction with NHS UK Property Services. The collaboration between NHS UK Property Services and GEZE UK is believed to be one of the largest [read more…]
June 2021
Howzat! Yorkshire cricket legend Dickie Bird officially opens new MKM Barnsley
MKM Building Supplies is looking forward to bowling over customers with its new flagship branch in Barnsley. To celebrate the opening, the UK’s largest independent builder’s merchant invited world famous Yorkshire cricketing legend Dickie Bird [read more…]
Continue to collaborate post-pandemic to maintain recovery, says company boss
The UK construction sector was heavily impacted by the disruption caused by the Covid-19 outbreak and the tactics that were quickly adopted by the industry to keep sites open will no doubt continue post-pandemic. Here, [read more…]
Novade launches a new connectors and integration hub for construction
Novade, a leader in construction management software, has launched Novade Connect, a set of software integrations enabling customers to tap into the growing digital ecosystem of construction software and hardware providers. Novade Connect provides plug [read more…]
£5m specialist nursing home opens in Bradford
Exemplar Health Care, a leading provider of specialist nursing care for adults living with complex needs, has officially opened its £5m state-of-the-art complex needs care home in Bradford. Wykewood will support 40 adults across four [read more…]
Could apprenticeships tackle the shortage of young people within the UK construction industry?
As the construction industry forges ahead with housing and commercial developments around the UK, there’s been a shortage of candidates to fill the growing number of job opportunities that are being created. This is putting [read more…]
Construction activity falls for the first time in 2021 with inflation worries impacting new work
Construction output fell by 2% in April in comparison to March, with reductions in both new work (2.9%) and repair & maintenance (0.6%). Latest numbers from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that the [read more…]
Brixton-based housing association secures multi-million-pound funding
Brixton-headquartered Ekaya Housing Association is to push forward with plans to build more than 65 new homes in the next three years, after securing eight-figure funding from NatWest. The housing association will use the £12m [read more…]
Lithium-powered utility vehicle range from STAR EV set to shine in UK
Electric power, it’s a hot topic and rightly so. There’s no reason why transportation shouldn’t be predominantly all electric in the next ten years, but you need the right products to make that a reality [read more…]
CLC launches Construct Zero website at BMF Sustainability Forum
The Construction Leadership Council used the inaugural BMF Sustainability Forum to launch its new Construct Zero website, which will provide a single hub for all information relating to the construction industry’s change programme in the [read more…]