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New umbrella for building services lobby
With the Building Engineering Services Association and the Electrical Contractors Association at the helm, the new body is similar to the Specialist Engineering Contractors’ (SEC) Group, disbanded this month. However, the focus of the new alliance is firmly on building services engineering. All members of the old SEC Group are in the new alliance with…
Consent given for £100m transformation of Glasgow tower
Development and investment firm Osborne & Co has secured planning consent from Glasgow City Council to create the mixed-use city centre development, following the submission of a detailed planning and listed building application in April 2020. The project involves the transformation of the City of Glasgow College building. In total, the mixed-use development will represent…
HSE brings charges over fatal wall collapse
The scene in Aston Church Road, Nechells on the mornignn of 7th July 2016 . Photos from West Midlands Fire Service and Police. Five men, all of Gambian origin, were killed on 7th July 2016 after a wall collapsed at Hawkeswood Metal Recycling in Aston Church Road in the Nechells area of Birmingham. The four-metre-high…
Kingspan leadership insulates itself from Grenfell culpability
Kingspan has commissioned an investigation by law firm Eversheds Sutherland into its UK Insulation Boards business and has committed to full implementation of the recommendations put forwardd reforms. Kingspan sold Kooltherm K15 boards to the Grenfell Tower restoration project despite it not being fit for purpose. Chief executive Gene Murtagh said: “The unacceptable conduct and…
Highway contractors urged to report abuse and incursions
A motorist caught on CCTV encroaching onto road works Incidents of civil engineering contractors enduring abuse from the public while working on the roads has increased by 10%, according to Highways England. Despite there being less traffic on the road, there has also been a rise in incidents of vehicle incursions into coned or fenced…
Scotland Excel awards first contracts of new-build framework
Loreburn Housing Association in Dumfries has awarded two projects to Ashleigh (Scotland) – the £4.8m construction of 27 homes in Annan and a £14.8m scheme to build 75 homes in Dumfries. North Ayrshire Council’s £14.6m Harbourside Project to build 79 homes has been awarded to MacTaggart Construction. CCG (Scotland) will deliver 22 homes for Stirling…