Day: January 31, 2023

The SWAP initiative with BMet college offers trainees a pathway out of unemploymentTraining from the ground up Civil engineering contractor Carey Group launched two new initiatives in 2022 to train the next generation of groundworkers. Under a three-year partnership with Milton Keynes College, Carey’s Milton...

Installing the basalt reinforcementFollowing a trial last year, Skanska is rolling out the use of a new type of reinforced concrete – one that uses no cement and no steel. The initial trial began in December 2021 on Skanska’s £282m M42 junction 6 project for...

While Russian drones are busily creating a pipeline of reconstruction work for neighbouring Ukraine, spare a thought for Russia’s own construction companies, paralysed by international sanctions and an acute shortage of materials and equipment. Eugene Gerden reports on a construction industry crippled by its own...

Artist's impressionDeveloper/contractor S1 Developments, owned and run by brothers Dan and Shane Teague, plans a £35m redevelopment of the old school site. Plans show accommodation space for 468 students with the original school hall repurposed as a central amenity, sitting within a courtyard. The site...

Hudson Contract, which provides payroll services to 2,600 construction SMEs, recorded a 1% increase in average pay during December 2022 to £1,002. Hudson Contract found that the average pay packet in its £2b payroll was £945 per week during 2022, a below-inflation increase of 4.5%...

A temporary jetty provided access to coffer dams Once complete, the 2.1-mile (3.4km) bridge will carry the new rail line across a series of lakes and waterways near Hillingdon on the northwest outskirts of London. It will be 100-metres longer than Dundee’s Tay Bridge, which...

Each section was 48 metres long and weighed 56 tonnesThe four bridge sections were manufactured by Severfield in Bolton and they were transported by road 40 miles to Halifax by heavy transport specialist Collett. With each measuring 48 metres long and weighing 56 tonnes, these...

Cliff Wren (left) and David ClementDerbyshire-based foundations specialist Roger Bullivant (RB) is a UK subsidiary of Soletanche Bachy and part of the French construction conglomerate Vinci. David Clement becomes managing director on 27th March. He joined the business as production operations manager in 2017 and...