Author: California Builder

Mace chief executive Mark Reynolds Mace reduced its corporate carbon emissions by 50% in 2020, and offset the remaining emissions by giving money to carbon-reduction projects. Mace’s unspecified financial contribution to Carbon Footprint Ltd was put towards initiatives including tree planting in Brazil and wind farms in India. Mace’s reduction in actual carbon was achieved…

Matthew Evans The new company, which delivered its first houses in 2019, has recruited a chief technology officer from Airbus. He is promising to ‘spin a digital thread’. Matthew Evans, vice president of digital transformation at Airbus for the past five years, will take charge of TopHat’s digital strategy, integrating new technology into the company’s…

A team of four has joined Kier from Balfour Beatty Kier Highways has been handed responsibility for maintaining technology assets across the Highways England Area 13 network, where it has had the maintenance and response contract for the last three years. This follows the end of Balfour Beatty’s northwest regional technology maintenance contract and is…

Chief executive Greg Fitzgerald Vistry Group reports a strong second half in 2020, with private sales rate per outlet per week increasing by 15% to 0.62 (2019 H2: 0.54). The company reports that its supply chain “has remained resilient despite the challenges of both the pandemic and Brexit”, maintaining a good supply of materials and…

The Hav-Sentry glove The HAV-Sentry glove has been developed by Feraru Dynamics to protect wearers from debilitating hand arm vibration syndrome. It monitors vibration in the hand induced by machinery and warns the wearer when a break is required. A battery-powered monitor on the glove provides a visual indicator of vibration exposure status. A standalone…