Day: October 12, 2022

Dermot Gleeson Dermot Gleeson will be succeeded as chairman by chief executive James Thomson with effect from 1st January 2023. James Thomson announced in April that he intended to stand down at the end of the year after just three years in the job. His...

Artist's impression of the hospital extensionMWD Healthcare has been appointed to build a new emergency department at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth. Work on the new 17,000 sqm urgent and emergency care centre at Derriford is planned to start in 2023, to replace the current accident...

Latest GDP figiures show that the UK economy as a whole shrank by 0.3% in August, but GB construction output was up by 0.4%. And it turns out that August was construction's second successive monthly increase – previously published numbers for July showing a fall...

Jamie Halcro Johnston MSP outside the Scottish parliament buildingThe parliamentary bill would give electricians the sort of professional status and protection enjoyed by architects but denied to engineers and surveyors. If passed, it would be illegal for someone to call themself an electrician unless they...

Shiva Ltd, a property investment company, was using a site-made cradle during the renovation of the five-story building on Bermondsey Street in the southeast of the capital. Cradles are often used as temporary suspended work access platforms in the construction industry. They are normally suspended...

The River Dane Bridge carries the M6 near junction 18Concrete Repairs Limited (CRL) is engaged by National Highways as principal contractor under its construction works framework. CRL’s work includes survey, testing, removal of delaminated concrete by hydro demolition, reinforcement cleaning and repair followed by concrete...