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The National Retrofit Hub was launched in London on 1st MarchThe National Retrofit Hub is an attempt to ensure the construction industry is able to deliver the nationwide programme of work needed to fit heat pumps, solar panels, double glazing and other carbon reducing/energy saving...

The CQIC launch group (left to right) Colin Campbell, Cliff Smith, Iain Kent, Ivan McKee MSP, Ron Fraser, Peter Reekie and Colin ProctorThe Construction Quality Improvement Collaborative (CQIC) is described as “a charter to drive for quality, sustainability and collaboration across construction industry”. It is...

The Herrenknecht TBM is is the largest diameter tunnel boring machine to be used in the UKThe first element to be lowered down was part of the TBM shield, followed by the 250-tonne main drive of the TBM. Using a 600-tonne Liebherr crawler crane with...

'Dominique', the deck launching machine, makes her UK debut The Colne Valley Viaduct will stretch 3.4km across a series of lakes and waterways between Hillingdon and the M25, northwest of London. HS2 minister Andrew Stephenson MP yesterday visited the to see the launch of the...

CGI of Skelton Grange More than 500 construction workers will be employed on the £250m Skelton Grange project, which will burn 410,000 tonnes of Leeds municipal waste a year and provide power for 100,000 homes. The plant is being built by Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI)...