In the last year, construction was the industry with the highest number of deaths at work, reporting 30 deaths in 2022. As the weather gets colder and outdoor conditions worsen, construction workers are being warned [read more…]
Leading offsite manufacturer, McAvoy, has completed the handover of three major contracts worth £40m as well as a number of other projects across the UK and Ireland. The projects in both the education and health [read more…]
Environmentally driven architectural practice, Lungfish Architects has successfully partnered with Morgan Sindall Construction to deliver more than £30m-worth of educational infrastructure in Derby, helping to generate 1,440 additional school places. Lungfish has designed and delivered [read more…]
CEG has appointed contractor, Kier, to deliver the comprehensive redevelopment of The Crescent Centre at Temple Quay in Bristol. The redevelopment has been designed by Buckley Gray Yeoman, an architecture and interior design practice with [read more…]
Skills shortages and the cost-of-living crisis have driven salaries up across construction, despite the demand for staff beginning to slow. That’s according to the latest report from the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo). The [read more…]
Strand Hardware has developed leaner assembly, dispatch and warehousing processes – saving hundreds of staff hours each year – in a joint project with a crack team from Warwick University. The project with WMG (Warwick [read more…]
According to new data and forecasts released by HMRC, there was a decrease in the amount spent on research and development (R&D) by construction firms in 2021, compared to previous years. The amount spent on [read more…]
More than 600 students of all ages and over 200 industry professionals attended Foundations Live 2022 – one of the north of England’s biggest construction, trade, networking, and careers events. Despite the torrential downpour, exhibitors, [read more…]
Health and beauty retailer Boots UK is well known for offering beauty products to enhance the stylish good looks of its customers, so the entrance to their brand new store in Kensington High Street in [read more…]
Specialist scaffolding contractor, Millcroft, has successfully won the second phase of a multi-million-pound contract to provide temporary works infrastructure, acoustic and public protection screens, and all required access and containment solutions to support Skanska in [read more…]
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