Author: California Builder

The relationship between the two companies spans more than 56 years, with D & I Bain buying its first JCB – a 3C Mark 1 – in 1964 and investing in more than 40 machines since then. The new machine JCB 150X HD joins an original 1966 JCB 7 excavator in the company’s fleet. The…

Chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak The Construction Leadership Council (CLC) submission to the chancellor comes just a month before his 2021 budget statement, which is scheduled for 3rd March 2021. “Without further financial support many companies will become insolvent,” the CLC says. While the CLC used to be a panel of business leaders, hand-picked…

Ian Anfield, managing director of Britain’s biggest payer of subcontractors and a foremost authority on employment and tax matters in the sector, is warning the introduction of new off-payroll working rules is creating a vacuum for bad advice.   What is IR35? IR35 aims to ensure that those who work like employees pay broadly the same…

Cartwright Pickard has designed the apartment blocks Leeds City Council plans panel has resolved to grant planning permission for CEG’s detailed application for the first phase of residential development at the £400m Kirkstall Forge development.  Work is expected to start on site later this year. In 2017 the developer got outline permissions to build 112…

Construction Testing Solutions (CTS) has taken over consulting engineer Nicholls Colton Group for an undisclosed sum. With headquarters in Leicester, Nicholls Colton employs more than 100 staff operating from bases across the UK. Ian Elliot, former owner and chief executive of Nicholls Colton, is joining CTS as a director to support the integration process. CTS…

Jan Snel housing Jan Snel BV is considered a pioneer in modular building in the Netherlands. It was taken over by Japanese market leader Daiwa House in December 2020 and has now set up an office in the UK. From an office in Swansea, Jan Snel UK will “focus on the residential market but work…