Day: May 31, 2022

The acquisition is the third in five years for family-run Cowal’s merchant group, which now has six sites and more than 60 employees in the West of Scotland. Its merchant group already included Reddance Building Supplies, which was acquired in 2017, and Catherwood Construction Materials...

Yeah, right! Best stay clear.An outfit calling itself 'Construction Card Scheme Online UK' is offering the full range of CSCS cards – including CPCS plant operator, IPAF PAL cards, CCDO (Certificate of Competence of Demolition Operatives), Gas Safe and CSCS Gold Card site supervisor –...

Causeway Technologies chief executive Phil BrownYotta has more than 200 customers worldwide, providing software to assist in the management of more than 35 million physical assets and related services, including highways, street lighting and waste management. Yotta is Causeway’s second acquisition since getting £120m private...

Shotton Paper MillArup, supported by architects AHR, will work with the mill’s new Turkish owner, Eren Holdings, to develop expansion plans to redevelop the mill  as part of a £600m investment promised for the local area. Former owner UPM closed paper production at the Shotton...

Left to right with a dodgy ladder are Ladder Association chair Gail Hounslea, Cambridgeshire County Council senior trading standards officer Andrew Fayers and John Darby, manager of the Test & Research CentreTelescopic ladders look great because they are light and stash away into a small...

While many construction companies are paying to have trees planted to ‘offset’ their carbon emissions, one builder in the west of England has gone straight to the logical conclusion and just bought the whole forest.Read Full Article: The Construction Index Source link

The CIOB guide, Code of Practice for Project Management for the Built Environment, is now available in its sixth edition. The updates reflect how practice and processes in construction have changed not just since the first edition was published in 1992 but even since the...

Jon Prichard Jon Prichard succeeds Nigel Jackson, who step down at the end of September after 13 years as MPA chief executive. Jon Prichard joins the MPA from Institution of Chemical Engineers, where he has been chief executive since 2017. He is a chartered civil...