WA Hare and Son – A history to be proud of
With a history that dates back over a century to 1890, given WA Hare and Son’s recent success in winning LABC’s Best Individual New Home Award for 2016 in the North and North-East Region, it [read more…]
Internal steel screens reinforce contemporary aesthetic
Traditional steel window and door screens are being ‘reinvented’ by members of the Steel Window Association to meet the huge demand for bespoke internal glazed partitions. They are screening everything from boardrooms and wine cellars [read more…]
Svantek’s new vibration and noise outdoor monitoring station offers compact, lightweight design
Svantek UK has launched its SV 258 PRO, an outdoor noise and vibration monitoring station with a more compact and lightweight design. Specially developed for construction site, tunnelling and blasting applications, this upgraded model weighs [read more…]
Internal steel screens reinforce contemporary aesthetic
Traditional steel window and door screens are being ‘reinvented’ by members of the Steel Window Association to meet the huge demand for bespoke internal glazed partitions. They are screening everything from boardrooms and wine cellars to kitchens and showers [read more…]
Driving improvements across the North
Newly published reports from Transport for the North and the Department for Transport have outlined how road journeys across the North of England could be transformed to boost economic growth. Reports from three strategic road [read more…]
Cirrus Research celebrate largest overseas order in history of the company
Cirrus Research has secured the biggest order in its 46-year history, supplying noise monitoring equipment to an Indian police force. The Yorkshire-based noise monitoring specialists, which manufactures and supplies a range of personal and environmental [read more…]
CITB funds new anti-slavery training programme
The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) will fund a new initiative designed to stamp out modern day slavery in the construction industry. The project, developed by Willmott Dixon, was successful in its bid for £18,500 [read more…]
MEF strengthens Irish position with Metsec distribution centre in Dublin
Mechanical Electrical Fixings (MEF) has announced the opening of its 15,000 sq ft distribution centre in Santry, Dublin, to meet increasing demand for Metsec products in Republic of Ireland. Established 30 years ago, the Edinburgh-based wholesaler [read more…]
Has the Chancellor got the Autumn Statement right? The UK construction industry reacts…
Although experts are still sifting through its implications, if anything concrete can be drawn from Chancellor Philip Hammond’s Autumn Statement at this early stage, it’s that it has perfectly polarised opinion across the construction sector, with [read more…]
PASMA instructors invited to explore tower safety
Leading supplier of BoSS access towers, Youngman, recently supported PASMA’s Tower Safety Week by providing a practical CPD training session for instructors about its product ranges. The CPD presentations allowed course instructors to learn more [read more…]