Brighton-based retail and leisure development specialists, Boxpark, has revealed plans to revive the city’s iconic Madeira Terrace into an internationally renowned retail-and-leisure-as-entertainment destination. Plans have been submitted to Brighton & Hove City Council and demonstrate Boxpark’s [read more…]
Supreme Concrete, the leading manufacturer of high performance precast and prestressed concrete has launched its new website. After listening to feedback from customers, the new website (www.supremeconcrete.co.uk) is more user friendly and provides customers and specifiers with easy to [read more…]
Offsite Solutions has been awarded the £4.5m contract to manufacture high specification bathroom pods for Canary Wharf’s new private rental apartment tower at its new district, Wood Wharf. Offsite Solutions is supplying 443 pods for [read more…]
The University of Bedfordshire’s campus transformation took a leap forward (Thursday 19 July), with the ‘topping out’ of a new £40m building devoted to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Vice Chancellor Bill Rammell together [read more…]
Following yesterday’s (Thursday 19th July) report launch for the ‘Inquiry into Offsite Manufacture for Construction: Building for Change’ Zurich Insurance responds. Whilst this report is a step in the right direction Zurich, as an insurer [read more…]
A £1bn VAT bombshell will hit building supplies to the UK if builders merchants are forced to pay 20% VAT upfront on European timber and other materials, warns the Builders Merchants Federation. Parliament voted this [read more…]
This weekend over 260 people from 23 construction firms will represent #BuildingEquality at Pride in London, under the theme of ‘Pride Matters’. We will come together to march along with a rainbow JCB provided by [read more…]
Peaks & Plains Housing Trust will build six new affordable homes for rent on the former Hurdsfield Community Centre site. The community centre, which has been a dangerous and derelict eyesore since 2007, will be replaced with [read more…]
Fix Radio, currently known as the UK’s only dedicated radio station for tradespeople, is expanding to now offer full scale media marketing for the construction industry. The newly conceived ‘Fix Media’ comes after Fix Radio’s [read more…]
The boss of a construction company based in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, has been banned after failing to pay fines following multiple health and safety breaches. Michael Allen, 64, of Ashbourne, was a director of Allen and [read more…]
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