Day: April 22, 2022

An artist’s impression of the scheme shows plans for a 37m-wide crossing, connecting habitats and allowing users of the Gloucestershire Way to cross the improved A417 The project will dual the single-lane carriageway on the A417 between the Brockworth bypass and Cowley roundabout in Gloucestershire....

WSP's London office at 70 Chancery LaneThe firm is looking to increase its UK and Ireland headcount from around 7,000 to 9,000 in 2022. There are vacancies in rail, water, planning, highways and building structures, as well as business support functions including legal, finance and...

The Clarendon Food Company, which makes jam in Pwllheli, admittedly liability for the injuries sustained by a man falling off a ladder. Llandudno Magistrates’ court heard how, on the 6th April 2020, a worker was installing a security camera on the outside of the factory...

Berkeley paid extra to have the carbon in its concrete offset by overseas reforestation and other schemes. (Image from Circular Ecology) Berkeley is the first customer to pay extra for London Concrete’s offsetting service to claim carbon neutrality. Aggregate Industries subsidiary London Concrete supplied more...

John ChickJohn Chick, business unit leader of Laing O’Rourke's Expanded Geotechnical, takes over as FPS chair from Steve Hadley, who has completed his two-year term of office.  “I am honoured to be appointed as chair of the FPS, an enduring specialist trade organisation which carries...

Knauf is spending £40m in St HelensMost of the investment – £40m – will be in St Helens, were Knauf Insulation plans to increase the capacity by 30,000 tonnes a year from early 2024. Knauf plans to install a bigger furnace, to introduce lower lambda...

Hudson Contract said that subcontractors also enjoyed record earnings in the East Midlands (£1,070) and the Southwest (£934). Across England and Wales as a whole, earnings increased by 0.9% in March to £959, matching the all-time high seen in December. Hudson Contract describes itself as...

Turner & Townsend’s latest UK Market Intelligence (UKMI) report shows significant upward revisions to its quarterly forecasts – particularly regarding inflation.  This is driven by rapidly rising energy costs as the impact of the war in Ukraine resonates through global supply chains. Just three months...

Apprentices already on the construction site management programme who are due to complete their end-point assessment in September this year will be part of the first cohort who can claim their apprenticeship certificate, degree and chartered member status with CIOB. UCEM, part of the University...