Day: September 11, 2023

The first reactor building will soon be capped with a giant steel domeWhile Hinkley Point C is not set to start generating electricity before June 2027, two years behind schedule, there is still plenty going on. The video shows how 10,000 workers a day are...

Unite’s NAECI members carry out repair and maintenance at oil refineries, power stations and pharmaceutical and petrochemical plants. They are also involved in the construction of new build projects of critical industrial infrastructure. The workers have seen the value of their pay erode over the...

Analysis by PwC shows that despite construction output recovering to pre-pandemic levels in 2022, this year is a different story. Higher mortgage rates and the cost of living squeeze have weakened demand, dragging the construction sector into contraction. PwC is forecasting an 8% decline of...

Kevin McColgan Kevin McColgan has taken over from John Irvine, who has retired. McColgan joins Bancon from Lovell Partnerships in Scotland, where he was regional managing director, having joined the company in 2017 as operations director. He started his career as an apprentice joiner before...

Chief executive Greg FitzgeraldVistry was formed in 2020 from a merger of Bovis Homes and Linden Homes. In November 2022 it completed the acquisition of Countryside Partnerships, merging it with its Linden Partnerships business. Vistry Group chief executive Greg Fitzgerald said: "The board has concluded...

Spot, a robot made by Boston Dynamics, is equipped for the task with a Trimble X7 scannerBuildings at the Orford Ness Nature Reserve on the Suffolk cost were used to test the atomic bomb during the 1960s and have been off-limits to National Trust visitors...