X-MAT Receives Funding from Department of Energy to Build House Made of Coal | 2020-12-17

X-MAT Receives Funding from Department of Energy to Build House Made of Coal | 2020-12-17

X-MAT Receives Funding from Department of Energy to Build House Made of Coal | 2020-12-17 | 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…

Suffering delays with imports?

Suffering delays with imports?

Cargo operations at the Port of Dover Current issues mainly relate to goods imported from China and east Asia, including sanitaryware, power tools, screws and fixings. Suppliers of soft wood timber products from Scandinavia are also under pressure due to increased demand worldwide. BMF chief executive John Newcomb, who co-chairs the Construction Leadership Council’s working…

Ilke sells Drybrook development to Guinness

Ilke sells Drybrook development to Guinness

This image shows 26 semi-detached Ilke homes in Royal Drive, Egremont, Cumbria. The Drybrook scheme will be similar. The deal marks Ilke Homes’ fifth scheme as a full turnkey developer – it secured the land at Mannings Farm, near Drybrook High Street, in March 2020 before obtaining planning consent. The new estate will have a…

Green light for TfL’s Oval housing

Green light for TfL’s Oval housing

CGI of Montford Place (courtesy of Hawkins Brown) The development, in Montford Place in Kennington – just by the Oval gasholders – has been designed by architect Hawkins Brown for Connected Living London (CLL) – a partnership between private landlord Grainger and Transport for London (TfL). The site is currently a construction yard for the…

Industry leaders back £525bn home improvement plan

Industry leaders back £525bn home improvement plan

The UK needs twice the current workforce t deliver on the CLC’s £525bn national retrofit strategy The mass education campaign is a precursor to a ‘national retrofit strategy’ published by the Construction Leadership council to promote home improvement schemes. It says: “The UK has some 28 million homes, the vast majority of which need retrofit…

Laing O’Rourke posts strong profit growth

Laing O’Rourke posts strong profit growth

Chief executive Ray O’Rourke In the year to 31st March 2020, Laing O’Rourke made a pre-tax profit of £45.5m (2019: £32.7m). With revenue from continuing operations down 11% to £2,448.5m (2019: £2,753.4m), gross profit margin improved to 10.4% (2019: 7.7%). A £26m improvement in earnings before interest and tax to £72.9m was attributed to “a…

Aberdeen Harbour expansion on track for 2021 opening

Aberdeen Harbour expansion on track for 2021 opening

Aberdeen Harbour bosses have confirmed that there will be a phased opening next year of the Aberdeen Harbour Expansion Project (AHEP) – the largest marine infrastructure scheme under way in the UK. Construction, which began in early 2017, is now 70% complete. Dragados had been appointed to the project in 2016 but withdrew earlier this…

Groundworks suppliers fined £15m

Groundworks suppliers fined £15m

Groundforce struts (MGF’s are similar but red) An investigation by the Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) found that Vp and MGF shared information on pricing and strategy, to their mutual benefit, but at the expense of their customers. They colluded to reduce competition and keep prices up in the market for propping and shoring equipment….