Day: May 25, 2022

Bishop & Taylor are joined by bricklayer-turned-teacher Dean Carpenter, a supporter of the Further Education Teacher Recruitment campaign. That’s after they discuss the rising costs of Hinkley Point C and the surprisingly long reach of the Competition & Markets Authority. 25th May 2022: Episode 105:...

Location of the accident near Surbiton stationThe official report into the death of 30-year-old Tyler Byrne near Surbiton station last year found similarities to the deaths of two track workers in south Wales two years before. At around 11:35am on Tuesday 9th February 2021, a...

The CLC, representing government and industry organisations, is worried by the impact that inflation is having – and might yet have – on construction industry productivity and supply chain relationships. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine crisis has compounded existing challenges of materials’ supply and prices, caused...

Cover of the guideAM17: Heat pumps for large non-domestic buildings has been published by the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) and the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS). Arup worked as the technical author under the direction of the CIBSE technical...

Belfast's Titanic QuarterQueen’s University has appointed a design team for each of the three centres it will lead on in areas including advanced manufacturing, clinical research, and connected digital technologies. Arcadis, Faithful & Gould and Turner & Townsend have won the contracts to provide project...

William BarryJust 10 years ago William Barry was starting out as an apprentice electrician. But he has since racked up experience of mechanical & electrical (M&E) installation, project management and architectural technology. Three years ago he joined what was then Interserve and is now Tilbury...

Left to right are B&W's Craig England, Scott Wilson, Karl Snowball and Jonathan Robinson-Hoare Black & White Engineering is a privately-owned consultancy offering mechanical, electrical and public health (MEP) design and consultancy services to the construction industry worldwide. It was set up in 2014 by...

Electric arc furnace (EAF) steel recycling process. For the Cambridge Electric Cement process this material will be cooled to make Portland cement clinker [Credit: UKFIRES]There are already cements marketed as “net zero emissions” but this only because someone somewhere plants some trees or in other...