A recent poll conducted by the Low Carbon Infrastructure Taskforce surveyed over 1,000 Scots to reveal quite conclusively that the 125-year-old The Forth Bridge is still very much the pride of Scottish engineering. In a [read more…]
New images released by Crossrail highlight the continued construction progress at Crossrail’s Bond Street station. The tunnels 30 metres below Oxford Street are now finished as are all the connecting passageways. The western ticket hall on [read more…]
Scaffold boards are used in their thousands on construction sites across the UK, enabling workers to operate safely at height. However, BM TRADA, part of the Exova Group, warns recent incidents have highlighted that the [read more…]
A team of building surveyors and polymer chemists, who introduced a new coating system for asbestos roofs, have seen their efforts rewarded with prestigious certification from the British Board of Agrément (BBA). Solihull-based Liquasil, which [read more…]
Young people from Hackney have been given trade skills for life thanks to a free, on-site apprenticeship construction course funded by Hackney Council. Joining with apprenticeship training agency K-10, and with the support from Berkeley [read more…]
Customers could save 12 per cent on their water spend from the new England and Wales water deregulation in 2017 says IMServ. Water deregulation is in sight for England with the Water Bill coming into [read more…]
ISG has given the 140,000 passengers that daily pass through the revamped Birmingham New Street Station the perfect excuse for some retail therapy after completing a fit out of the eagerly anticipated 250,000 sq ft [read more…]
Turner & Townsend, the global programme management and construction consultancy, has ‘adopted’ two schools – one in the North-East, the other in London – to help inspire the next generation to consider a career in [read more…]
The UK economy is missing out on more than £6bn a year* in lost consumer spending for home improvements based on consumers’ anxiety around hiring shoddy tradespeople and ‘cowboy builders’. New research released today by [read more…]
How the UK construction industry can build a healthier workforce for the future was the topic of an Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) seminar held in London yesterday (Monday 12 October). The event [read more…]
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