Sister company Create Developments has secured planning consent for the scheme and has signed a franchise agreement with hospitality group Accor for the hotel to be opened under the Ibis brand. The hotel complex, which is adjacent to the airport and a business park, will also feature a stand-alone restaurant/bar building and provide parking for…
CECA Scotland chief executive Grahame Barn The recovery seen in the trade association’s latest Workload Trends Survey follows a significant rebound in the previous quarter, which also saw workloads and order books on an upwards trend. More than half of contractors reported workloads had increased in Scotland, with contractors across Great Britain as a whole…
David Mosey will conduct the review The government is strongly supportive of the use of frameworks for procuring construction contracts but says not all of them are delivering their aims. The Cabinet Office has appointed David Mosey, a law professor at King’s College London, to lead a review of public sector frameworks. He is the…
The GeoPal system has 15,000 users across more than 200 organisations, including Kier, Babcock and Sisk. The GeoPal technology will be rebranded and relaunched by Totalmobile as its ‘Utilise’ product. Utilise provides software as a service (SaaS) that can be configured to specific customer requirements within the infrastructure and utility sectors. Totalmobile chief executive Jim…
TAMKO Launches Shingle Series Featuring Two New Products and New Contractor Loyalty Program | 2021-02-08 | Roofing Contractor This website requires certain cookies to work and uses other cookies to help you have the best experience. By visiting this website, certain cookies have already been set, which you may delete and block. By closing this…
Mark Buckle Mark Buckle, previously southeast divisional director, has been made Interserve Construction’s technical director, with a brief to focus on a digital transformation strategy and ‘modern’ methods of construction. The new position will concentrate on the development, use and implementation of prefabricated, precast and factory-made system components for building and infrastructure projects. As technical…
TRUFAST Brand Celebrates 40 years of ‘Trusted Connections’ in 2021 | 2021-02-08 | Roofing Contractor This website requires certain cookies to work and uses other cookies to help you have the best experience. By visiting this website, certain cookies have already been set, which you may delete and block. By closing this message or continuing…
Premier Modular’s management team Premier Modular, a manufacturer of temporary and permanent modular buildings for hire or sale, plans to use the money that Cabot Square is putting in to grow the business 50% within three years. The purchase price has not been disclosed. Premier Modular, formerly Waco UK, was previously subsidiary of South African…
Installing solar panels The House of Commons environmental audit committee (EAC) has solicited some detail from business minister Lord Callanan on the operation of the Green Homes Grant. And it’s not looking great. Lord Callanan admitted that, as of 5th February, only 20,000 vouchers towards the cost of installing energy efficient improvements have been issued…
The roofer was fatally injured when he fell six metres while working on a replacement roof at a property in Kirkdale, Liverpool. Liverpool Crown Court heard how, on 22nd May 2017, the roofer was completing snagging work on a replacement roof. He had accessed a part of the old roof made of fragile asbestos cement…
