Balfour Beatty is building a 7.5km two-lane dual carriageway for Leeds City Council – the £116m East Leeds Orbital Route. Working with its plant supplier Sunbelt (formerly A-Plant) and wireless monitor specialist Invisible Systems, it has developed a system we call EcoNet the monitors and controls power usage. Since being trialled in Leeds, the EcoNet…
BSG’s report was based on 9,000 independent site inspections conducted over a six month period from June to November 2020. Two periods were compared which revealed the increase. Between June and August there were 209 infringements recorded; between September and November 2020 there were 258 infringements. The most common types of breach found included ‘failure…
S460M is rolled into structural sections at the Teesside Beam Mill Sections made from the new S460M grade are designed for use in multi-storey and high-rise buildings, as well as a range of other commercial and industrial uses. S460M is the first product launched by British Steel since it was taken over by Chinese steelmaker…
The tool is designed to reduce the time needed for technical approvals and help accelerate new homes to market. The FastTrack Drainage system uses Dynamic Objects – an automated intelligent technology process created by Atkins – to reduce the time required to review drainage designs. Guy Ledger, digital director at Atkins, said: “The automation technology…
Rudi Klein Professor Rudi Klein has been a leading campaigner and advocate for the interests of construction subcontractors, combatting payment abuse in particular, for as long as most of us can remember. He led the industry’s efforts to secure legislation in 1996 – the Housing Grants, Construction & Regeneration Act (better known as the Construction…
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The Construction Playbook sets down what the government considers to be commercial best practice and describes reforms in how contracting authorities and the construction industry should work with each other. The 83-page document*, full title The Construction Playbook: Government guidance on sourcing and contracting public works projects and programmes, sets out 14 key policies, including…
