The construction industry can be transformed by adoption of the practices termed Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Lean Construction. However, research at the University of Huddersfield has led to a warning that the smaller firms that [read more…]
SME civil engineering firm, Foran Construction, which has worked on projects at St Paul’s Cathedral and The Oval cricket ground has safeguarded jobs amid widespread construction site closures after receiving a time critical loan from [read more…]
Desperately-needed new social homes could go unbuilt unless councils are granted an extension to the time they are allowed to spend money from Right to Buy sales, the Local Government Association warns today (Tuesday 28th [read more…]
There is no doubt that the Covid-19 pandemic will radically alter how every sector operates in the months and years ahead and construction is no different. Here Damon Culbert from SMAS Worksafe, SSIP accreditation scheme [read more…]
New products generally mean new technology. Imagine then that an invention of the 1940s could be the best choice, top performing product in its field when it is re-launched, without any enhancements, today? A simple, [read more…]
Saint-Gobain Glass is delivering online training to architects, façade fabricators and specifiers during the government lockdown with a range of free glass and façade focused webinars. Created in response to a significant volume of requests [read more…]
In some much needed good news for the construction industry, it has been announced that the number of accidents and injuries recorded by NASC members fell to an all-time low in 2019, with just 74 [read more…]
Door Group, a unit of ASSA ABLOY Opening Solutions UK & Ireland, has supplied the National Gallery of Ireland with security, ballistic and fire rated doorsets, for the refurbishment of a 150-year-old listed building. The [read more…]
As part of the UK Government’s announcement of a new five pillar plan to boost testing for Covid-19, AstraZeneca, GSK and the University of Cambridge have formed a joint collaboration to take action to support [read more…]
Regional contractor GF Tomlinson has been appointed as a partner for the Pagabo Major Works Framework, which launched on 19th April. In its second iteration, the Major Works Framework is open to all public and private [read more…]
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