Day: November 4, 2022

Results from the latest monthly survey of construction purchasing managers indicate that the UK construction sector gained momentum in October, with total industry activity rising at the fastest pace since May. However, new orders fell for first time since May 2020 and the degree of...

The ASPEC website homepage, where visitors can register for the free trialASPEC – Artificial Intelligence System for Predicting Embodied Carbon in Construction – has been developed with UK government funding to help the drive to net zero carbon.                                                   Construction contractors Winvic and Costain have developed...

A Bosch heat pump is installed in the roofThe heat pump will be tested in Bellway’s experimental eco house, The Future Home at the University of Salford. Air source heat pumps are expected to replace natural gas boilers in most homes when they are phased...

Casting Alfabloc modulesAlfabloc Mark II will be produced as an ultra-low carbon product from January 2023. When SigmaRoc acquired Poundfield Products in 2017 it also acquired a series of patents covering the Alfabloc modular walling systems. Alfabloc is comparised of A-shape pre-cast concrete blocks that...

Rupert HomeRupert Home has joined Cala Homes as managing director of Cala Homes (South Home Counties) from Countryside. Liz Stone moves across from Cala’s Thames region as sales and marketing director. Cala Homes (South Home Counties) covers East Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex, Kent and south London...

You may think you know what a new zero carbon building is, but everyone has their own ideas, it seems. What’s needed, some people think, is a single definition on which we can all agree. That is why the UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard...

Idec Group includes Idec Technical Services, Idec Power and Idec Technical Products. Based in Stockton-on-Tees, Idec turned over nearly £20m in 2021 and made a pre-tax profit of £1.2m. It has 138 employees. Keltbray said that the acquisition was in line with a plan to...

Vincent Christopher Larkin, aged 51 and from Bracknell, Berkshire, received a six-year disqualification order in Insolvency & Companies Court. The court heard that Vincent Larkin was the director of a scaffolding company called V Larkin Limited. It was incorporated in February 2006 and traded as...