Local builders must to be at the heart of meeting the skills and training needs set out in today’s CITB’s Building Skills for Net Zero report. This need would be best delivered by a new [read more…]
As the UK construction industry remains operative through the third national lockdown, Norton Clipper has announced the release of its newly updated Pro Universal Laser Diamond Blade, to help speed up cutting time and reduce [read more…]
In her report ‘Building a Safer Future’, Dame Judith Hackitt highlights the need for a system-based approach with a golden thread of information running through the lifecycle of each project. Here Jackie Maginnis argues the [read more…]
When Conor Cahill became Johnston Shopfitters’ Managing Director in early January 2020 he could have had little inkling of the difficulties that lay ahead for the construction industry and the world at large. It’s therefore [read more…]
With the roadmap to recovery having now been announced and with light hopefully at the end of the tunnel, we’ve been catching up with a two construction companies to see what measures they’ve introduced over [read more…]
Leading UK plant hire company, Think Hire, has announced a major collaboration with environmental energy providers EV3 Power. The partnership will allow construction sites to access fully environmentally friendly plant, reducing their carbon footprint, meeting [read more…]
A lack of long-term thinking coupled with material prices and supply chain disruption are limiting the construction industry’s recovery potential, warn the Federation of Master Builders in response to the construction PMI data published recently. [read more…]
Regional contractor G F Tomlinson has commenced works on a new 65,000 sq ft warehouse at Wakefield Hub for Newmarket Lane Ltd, a joint venture between developers HBD and Yorkcourt. Expected for completion by the [read more…]
While it will still take some time to digest all the implications of Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Budget, here we gauge the reaction from a number of figures across the construction sector in order to get [read more…]
Pilot Group, a Manchester-based sustainable technology solutions firm, has agreed a deal to license Mains Lighting ranges previously produced by Eaton Electrical System Ltd. The move sees Pilot Group benefit from the intellectual property, manufacturing, [read more…]
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