Day: February 8, 2023

Bishop & Taylor discuss a Supreme Court judgment on nuisance, the review of Compulsory Purchase Orders, and claims that HS2 is not as biodiversity-neutral as it thinks it is. 8th February 2023: Episode 121: Listen online  www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/podcast Re:Construction Podcast: A fortnightly podcast in which veteran construction industry...

Philip BeausangPhilip Beausang, aged 40, already has more than 20 years of experience in the construction industry across the civil engineering, building and infrastructure sectors. He joined Byrne Bros in 2011 as a project manager on the Heathrow Terminal 2B development.  He then led the...

Trial melts in an electric arc furnaceCement 2 Zero (C2Z), a UK-based demonstrator project to trial zero-emission cement on an industrial scale, has conducted concept-proving pilot melts and is now moving to the next stage. There are already products on the market that claim to...

CGI of Bedelands AcademyConstruction of the 900-pupil school, Bedelands Academy in Burgess Hill, is set to start later this year.  It will provide secondary school education for families living in the new Brookleigh development as well as across the wider Burgess Hill area. With nearly...

Vinci Building's site on East Topping Street in BlackpoolThe 215,000 sq ft building, which will be government offices,  is the third phase of Muse’s £350m Talbot Gateway regeneration in Blackpool town centre. Muses is the development business of the Morgan Sindall Group and is working...

Hedgerow image © Joy RussellAccording to The Wildlife Trusts' own analysis, HS2 ecologists used a flawed metric and there were ‘significant mapping errors and poor digitisation’. The campaign group has written to government asking for a re-evaluation of nature loss and compensation on the scheme....

Little more than two years ago, Assystem had just 250 staff in the UK; now it has more than 900. And in 2023 it is looking to recruit another 560 – at least – the firm says. Despite its low profile, Assystem is working in...