Day: May 5, 2022

The timber business was founded in 1979 as Rowan Timber Supplies and rebranded as Woodrow Timber & Supplies last year. It supplies timber, sheet and joinery products from three branches in Airdrie, Ayr, and Dunfermline. The acquisition takes the total number of MKM branches in...

The 92-metre-long bridge in Stechford is being built as part of an £85m project to enable planned HS2 tracks to pass underneath existing Network Rail lines. Last weekend, over the May Day bank holiday, an old railway viaduct on the Stechford to Aston freight line...

Scottish Water’s Ross Priory pumping stationThe appointment extends the current relationship with ARC as it continues to support the development and delivery of Scottish Water’s investment programmes and works for the next three years, with the option to extend for a further three years. ARC...

Workers blew the whistle on Ensure Asbestos Management Limited in February 2017 over fears they were being put in danger during the refurbishment of a former department store. When the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) got involved, it found irregularities in the asbestos surveys and...

RICS’ workload survey for the first quarter of 2022 found 84% of respondents reporting material costs to be impeding construction activity. The good news is that the work is there, however.  RICS Global Construction Monitor Q1 2022 found that 34% of respondents reported a rise...

IBMG has acquired Merkko Builders Merchants, which has stores in Abingdon (Oxfordshire) and Aldermaston (Berkshire).  Following its recent merger with Grant & Stone, this acquisition continues IBMG’s strategy of developing its divisions through a combination of acquisition, new site development and organic growth. Merkko will...

The government has decided not to provide state support to cement and lime producers through a period of spiralling energy costs despite propping up other industry sectors that directly compete with these producers. Under the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) scheme, some...