Day: April 20, 2022

In an industry that is all about working at height, safety training is crucial for scaffolding contractors. But teaching people the correct techniques and best-practice is one thing; it’s quite another to teach them to think differently. This was the puzzle faced by Jim Cottrell,...

Dargavel Village will be expandedThe housebuilder’s acquisition of the 16-acre site adjacent to its Dargavel Village development in Bishopton will enable it to build 135 homes in a mix of one-, three-, four-, five- and six-bedroom designs, as well as an additional 62 affordable housing...

This map showing offshore renewables, cables and pipelines agreements is one of many datasets being made availableIt is sharing datasets including offshore wind farms, wave & tidal sites, aquaculture sites, and cable and pipeline agreements as free open data under the Open Government Licence. The...

Mike GreenMike Green replaces former DIO chief executive Graham Dalton, who retired last month. The new man moves across from the Department for Education (DfE), where he was chief operating officer and director general of the operations directorate. Before joining the Civil Service in 2012,...

The brickiesYoung real-life bricklayers are the stars of a new BBC Three television observational documentary series. Brickies shows the team at work, giving an insight into their daily lives on site – the grind, the banter, the friendships and the fallouts. Episode two of Brickies...

A Manchester construction company has been fined £30,000 after a three-bedroom house in Stretford collapsed during a loft conversion and ground floor extension work.Read Full Article: The Construction Index Source link

Severfield supplied the steelwork for the new stands at Lord's cricket ground in LondonSeverfield’s order book stands at a record high of £479m (as of 1st April), up by nearly £180m in the past seven months. Most of the current orders – £382m – are...

National Highways filled Great Musgrave Bridge with concrete last year as a final solution (Photo © The HRE Group)National Highways says that collaboration with heritage, environmental and active travel groups represents a new method of managing the Historical Railways Estate (HRE), for which it is...

CGI of Weston Home's new plans for Anglia SquareWeston Homes’ new proposals to replace the 1960s-built Anglia Square shopping centre are for a lower rise development up to eight storeys height instead of the 20-storey tower previously proposed. The new proposals for the 4.65 hectare...

Keltbray’s mean gender pay gap in hourly pay has shrunk from 32.3% in 2017 to 28.11% in 2021. However, the 2021 figure has deteriorated since 2020, when it was 25.73%. Meanwhile the median gender pay gap in hourly pay was 22.19% in 2021, compared with...