Day: November 15, 2022

If you think that hydro-treated vegetable oil is paving the way to net-zero nirvana, think again. David Taylor reports on the gathering backlash to HVO Read Full Article: The Construction Index Source link

Awaab IshakRochdale coroner Joanne Kearsley has concluded that the death of Awaab Ishak in December 2020 was the result of a severe respiratory condition caused by prolonged exposure to harmful mould in his family’s council home. She described the child’s death as “a defining moment...

In the Technology & Construction Court, judge Finola O’Farrell has ruled that the joint venture of Tilbury Douglas Construction and Doosan Enpure must pay Northumbrian Water nearly £22.5m. When Northumberland Water terminated the JV’s contract in May 2021 – more than five years into the...

The deadline for transition from Conformité Européenne, or CE, marking to the new United Kingdom Conformity Assessed (UKCA) mark has been pushed back two years to 1st January 2025 UKCA marking can already be used now but this extension means that businesses are still allowed...

Patrick DugganPatrick Duggan is a construction disputes specialist and has worked predominantly in commercial litigation since qualifying as a solicitor in 1999.  He was previously a quantity surveyor. He is based in the Bath office of RWK Goodman and has ‘higher rights of audience’, which...

a hydrogen-ready boilerWhile the government is pressing for the mass installation of heat pumps replace domestic gas and oil fuelled boilers, boiler makers appear to be putting their weight behind hydrogen as the fuel of the future. EUA chief executive Mike Foster said: “Having net...