Day: April 14, 2022

The new name, registered today, follows Amey completing the sale of its utilities business to industrial private equity investor Rubicon Partners on 12th April. Avova will now operate as a separate entity. It retains the same structure and management team as when owned by Amey...

The contract, worth up to an estimated £540m, will begin on 16th August and run for eight years with a potential to extend for a further four years. Amey expects to complete contract signing by the end of the month (April). The maintenance work that...

Work is due to start on site in early 2023 on schemes to protect more than 4,000 properties in the town. Two sections of sea defences will be refurbished - 1.5km from Princes Way at Little Bispham to Red Bank Road, Bispham and 1.3 km...

The building safety scandal came to light after the Grenfell Tower fire nearly five years agoManufacturers are saying that they will pay to replace their own faulty products but refuse to foot the bill for the mistakes of others. Their stance is in contrast to...

Crane-based GEN 3 systems transfer some of the health and safety risks from the construction site to the factoryThe study, commissioned by Stewart Milne Group for the Advanced Industrialised Methods for the Construction of Homes (AIMCH) research project, found that crane-lift panelised building methods provide...

NBG managing director Nick Oates National Buying Group, a purchasing alliance for independent builders’ merchants, is urging its suppliers – manufacturers and importers of building products and materials – not to put up their prices any more than they really have to. It says that...

Secretary of state Michael GoveThe Local Government Association wants the remediation of social housing to be treated in the same way, and on the same terms, as private housing. Yesterday Michael Gove, the ‘levelling up’ secretary, revealed that 35 house-builders had agreed to commit at...

Kitchen components ready for deliveryChandlers, part of the private equity owned Independent Builders Merchant Group (IBMG), reckons to have found “a gap in the market for instant supply of quality kitchens”. It is offering off-the-shelf, next day delivery on rigid kitchen cabinet ranges and accessories....