With the dreaded GCSE results having come round once more, Rob Norton, UK Director at PlanRadar, believes the solution to getting right to the heart of the construction industry’s most pressing issue: the skills gap, lies [read more…]
Business recovery specialist Begbies Traynor reported in January that 77,077 construction companies experienced “significant financial distress” in the last quarter of 2022, making it the UK’s third most distressed sector after property and support services. [read more…]
Stone wool insulation manufacturer, ROCKWOOL has expanded its technical and specification support with the launch of ROCKWOOL Learning, a new e-learning platform that makes it easier for construction professionals to access learning resources and track [read more…]
Construction has made considerable progress in its journey towards a digital future, yet some pockets of resistance remain. For some contractors, part of the problem lies in finding the relevant tools and systems. Sometimes it [read more…]
For decades the UK construction industry has been plagued by issues such as modern slavery, data silos, lengthy onboarding, fake credentials and a lack of digital standards, according to the team behind newly launched digital [read more…]
LGH, one of the UK’s leading lifting equipment hire companies, has launched its new e-commerce website that allows customers to rent from its wide range of equipment wherever and whenever they want, with a guaranteed next [read more…]
October saw vacancies in the construction industry reach almost 50,000, mirroring the UK-wide surge in unfilled roles across all sectors. In the wake of Covid and Brexit, the challenges of recruiting talent, whilst tackling skills [read more…]
XYZ Reality, the transformational construction technology company behind Holosite, the world’s first Engineering-Grade Augmented Reality platform, has announced its global commercial launch and the reveal of its ground-breaking device: The Atom, the AR headset for [read more…]
Where once it was fair to say construction was one of the less tech-savvy sectors, the last couple of years has seen a seismic change in approach and attitude. Digital has finally been embraced and [read more…]
Following the success of its JB-Edocs – mobile-compatible interactive documentation – JB Associates, a construction consultancy based in the south of England, has now released JBA–360, the latest format of its Interactive Operation and Maintenance [read more…]
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