Day: October 20, 2022

We are currently experiencing rising inflation, shortages of materials and labour, and increased price volatility. Contracting parties may wish for greater flexibility when pricing works, to reflect the uncertainties they face in the market. Usually construction projects are priced by the employer, setting out their...

Just like the prime minister, Ray O’Rourke is not yet ready to leave his job. Both are on the agenda of Bishop & Taylor in this episode. They also discuss whether the future of offsite construction means offshoring to distant lands, the Lafarge scandal and...

So far this year, Travis Perkins has seen a 10.9% growth in revenue despite selling 3.9% less stuff. In a third-quarter trading update today, the company said that over the first nine months of the year its merchanting division had seen volumes shrink by 2.5%,...

Hanson UK sustainability director Marian GarfieldHanson has secured almost £400,000 from the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) industrial hydrogen accelerator programme. The funding has been awarded through the EDF UK R&D centre to the Bay Hydrogen Hub – Hydrogen4Hanson project, which will...

Excavation work for the 3.4km Calvert cutting in Buckinghamshire The 2.5 mile (4.1km) Barton Hartshorn to Mixbury cutting, near Brackley in Northamptonshire, will be HS2’s longest cutting with 1.3 million cubic metres of material set to be excavated in stages over the next three years....

Darren Jones Darren Jones started his career as an apprentice carpenter and joiner in London in 1985 and rose through the ranks. He was chairman of Persimmon’s southern region from 2007 to 2013 and then divisional managing director at Miller Homes, overseeing the Midlands and...

The robot-constructed underground structure was built at HyperTunnel’s R&D facility in the North Hampshire DownsHyperTunnel has constructed what is claimed to be the world’s first underground structure built entirely by robots. Hypertunnel was started up in Basingstoke in 2018 by two men with no experience...