Tag: concrete

The UK Concrete Show is the only standalone exhibition dedicated to the UK’s concrete industry, and this edition will be the first one since it was acquired by The QMJ Group – organiser of the internationally renowned Hillhead exhibition. Register for your free visitor ticket ...

Some of the project team pose with one of their 'printed' drawpitsFinland’s Hyperion Robotics, working with building materials supplier Tarmac and engineering company Mott MacDonald Bentley, made four 3D printed versions of a drawpit for Esholt wastewater treatment works. A traditional drawpit, used to allow...

concreteThe new standard is being described as one of the most significant changes to the traditional ‘recipe’ for making concrete since the 1980s. The move is expected to offer the potential to save UK construction as much as a million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions...

Verifi ensures all concrete loads arrive at the specified mix and consistencyConcrete technology developed over the last two years by Balfour Beatty Vinci (BBV) with Saint Gobain Construction Chemicals, Tarmac and Aggregate Industries has been trialled and validated on the HS2 project. It is now...

HGV concrete mixer drivers employed by Maen Karne at Hayle and Penryn in Cornwall have been taking industrial action in a dispute over union recognition and pay. The drivers, who are members of Unite, currently earn £12.30 an hour; the industry standard hourly rate for...

The Health &  Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSENI) will be carrying out an inspection initiative focusing on machinery guarding, safe isolation and maintenance procedures across Northern Ireland concrete premises from 13th November through December 2023. After a couple of recent fatalities in the sector,...

If a stressing bed system fails, serious injuries can resultCode of Practice for Safe Stressing of Prestressed Concrete Products has been written in collaboration with the members of MPA Precast and the support of the Health & Safety Executive (HSE). Prestressing concrete involves the use...

Bam Nuttall reckoned it saved more than a thousand tonnes of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere by using ground granulated blast furnace slag as a cement substitute on the Dawlish sea wall reconstruction project in south DevonA report out today* from the Institution of...

The property on Elmfield Avenue, Crouch End, LondonA concrete pump operator was cleaning the pump’s hose after it had been used to pump concrete.  The pump became blocked, leading to a sudden release of pressure, causing the hose to whip and strike him on the...

Sea shellsThe Circle project has been seeking to develop a low carbon, poured-in-place concrete pavement with improved drainage properties. Seashells, it seems, could be the answer.   The project began three years ago, led by French organisation Builders for Society (Ecole d’ingénieurs),with materials company Eqiom...

Image of an RAAC panel from a recent government report into the materialCouncil executive supported proposals to address construction issues at Knightsridge Primary in Livingston, Windyknowe Primary in Bathgate and Our Lady's Primary in Stoneyburn. The £6.7m programme for Knightsridge Primary will involve a complete...

The plant can be installed so just the payment terminal and conveyor head are accessible from outside the yardAlthough we’re unlikely to see the ubiquitous Belle concrete mixer disappear from small building sites any time soon, there’s a new alternative about to land in the...

Fibo Collect in operationIf it catches on, builders will be able to just drive by their builders’ merchant, wave their bank card, and have their required mix and quantity of concrete, mortar or screed tipped down a chute onto the back of their truck. Fibo...

The concrete pour on Tower Bridge Contracting joint venture Sacyr Farrans Neopul (SFN) is currently working on 12 separate sections across the route and the concrete pour took place on the bridge deck of Tower Bridge on Ocean Drive in Edinburgh. Taking approximately eight hours...

Cross laminated timber was used for the roof of the Canary Wharf Crossrail (Elizabeth line) stationA report from the British Association of Reinforcement (BAR) says that cross laminated timber CLT is ‘a  chemical cocktail’ that is not juts flammable but also environmentally damaging. The report,...