Day: August 2, 2022

Waagner-Biro's modular steel panel bridge systemsBeaver Bridges has acquired the exclusive rights to sell and rent Waagner-Biro modular steel panel bridge systems, a development of the original Bailey bridge system, across the UK and Ireland. Waagner-Biro’s panels are single elements that connect to form a...

In the year to 31st March 2022 Triton Construction turned over £62.8m, compared to £27.7m in 2021 and £32.4m in pre-covid fiscal 2020. Back in the year to March 2019 Triton was turning over £56m. It has now overtaken that peak. Pre-tax profit in the...

Octopus and EWT is targeting older, less efficient, wind turbines across England, Scotland and Wales for retrofitting. In total the UK has approximately 9,000 onshore wind turbines. Octopus says that upgrading just 10% of them could unlock enough new power for hundreds of thousands of...

WSP will take over two businesses: Capita Real Estate & Infrastructure (REI) and GL Hearn (GLH). Capita REI provides specialist advisory, design, engineering, environmental and project management services for land, building and infrastructure owners. It includes the legacy Travers Morgan consulting engineer business that Capita...

Cement-free precast pipes and manhole ringsInstead of using Portland cement, FP McCann used Wagners’ Earth Friendly Concrete (EFC), using a geopolymer low-carbon binder that is formed from the chemical activation of fly ash and ground granulated blast-furnace slag. It is claimed that replacing the Portland...

David Wilson Homes, part of Barratt Developments, is preparing to build 342 homes on a site it has purchased in Craigtoun. It just needs more people to help deliver the scheme. The company is hosting a ‘meet the developer’ event next week to help expand...

Legrand specialises in electrical and digital building infrastructures. It is a French company that has been manufacturing in the UK for more than 40 years. Acquiring USystems brings it the ColdLogik cooling technology, used for controlling the temperature of data centres. Legrand expects the acquisition...

Photo from the archive of social historian Ultan Cowley (not approved by the HSE)Called The Men Who Built Britain, the archive will be hosted by the London Irish Centre, with support from O'Donovan Waste, a London company set up by one of those many Irish...