Teesport Commerce Park PD Ports has signed an agreement with a consultancy firm called Wentworth Clean Power (WCP) to work up plans and try and raise money for a £430m waste-to-energy incinerator. This would have an annual capacity of 250,000 tonnes of specialist feedstocks and an electrical output of up to 18MWe. This announcement comes…
Chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak addresses a socially-distanced House of Commons Amid falling output and rising unemployment, the chancellor of the exchequer set out his Spending Review for 2021/22. “Our economic emergency has only just begun,” he said. “So our immediate priority is to protect people’s lives and livelihoods.” Among the new measure is…
Chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak on a visit to a building site earlier this month This 100-page document, subtitled Fairer, faster, greener, sets out government policy on infrastructure and construction, including broadband, energy and transport, and on the carbon reduction aspirations summarised in the prime minister’s 10-point plan that he announced last week. The…
As announced at Budget 2020, the government has undertaken a review of the Green Book, to ensure that investment spreads opportunity across the UK. The Green Book is the government’s guidance on best-practice appraisal and is therefore a vital tool for ensuring value for money for taxpayers. A central finding of the review is that…
The bank will operate UK-wide, be based in the north of England, and support the government’s ambitions on levelling up and net zero. The bank will also be able to lend to local and mayoral authorities for key infrastructure projects, and provide them with advice on developing and financing infrastructure. Some details is set out…
How is Rishi Sunak’s medicine going down with the construction industry? For more detail in what the chancellor of the exchequer said yesterday, see our other pages. Here is what people who work in the construction industry thought of it. Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA) chief executive Alasdair Reisner “The vision set out by the…
Hanson bagged cement products Hanson UK is a member of the Mineral Products Association (MPA), whose subscription fees are calculated on a “tonnes delivered” basis. On 11th September 2020 Hanson made a payment in error to the MPA which involved three pieces of information being sent to the MPA accounts team: a payment relating to…
Jacobs hopes that its cloud-based platform, called Pavy, will “reinvent the way airports manage airfield pavements”. The asset management principles behind Pavy were conceived when Heathrow Airport commissioned a team of Jacobs specialists to create a solution to manage its four million square metres of airfield pavement. “Airfield asset management is a recurring issue in…
M. Rank Roofing Takes Care of NJ Family in Time for the Holidays | 2020-11-26 | 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…
Fiona Hodgson A memorandum of understanding brings together the body that promotes and develops the technology and an association whose member firms will most likely to be called upon to implement it. Aims include developing and sharing best practice in the safe use and deployment of hydrogen technologies. Hydrogen, produced when water is ‘split’ by…
