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…]

A new study conducted on behalf of a UK-based medical website has revealed that three quarters of the British public will risk their health by not going to doctors appointments because of work commitments or [read more…]

Manitou is supplementing its range of industrial forklift trucks with six medium-tonnage and eight heavy tonnage units. With these 13 new models, Manitou is aiming to provide a complete solution from 1.5t to 10t for all [read more…]

More than 500 leaders and innovators from across the construction sector gathered at the NEC, Birmingham last night (Tuesday 6 October 2015) for the Inaugural Structural Timber Awards. The prestigious award ceremony truly made its [read more…]

ISG has been awarded a £29m two-stage, design and build project to deliver a new, highly-sustainable commercial office development in the City of London for Baldwin House Ltd – a wholly owned subsidiary of McKay [read more…]

Six months on on from the introduction of the new Construction Design & Management Regulations 2015 (CDM), which came into force on 6 April 2015, Louise Hosking, Director for Hosking Associates, a Health & Safety consultancy (www.hosking-associates.com), looks at [read more…]

New London Architecture (NLA), the capital’s think tank on the city’s built environment, has announced a series of findings from its insight study into the London housing shortage. The research gathered by former Development Director at [read more…]