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…
Every month, using figures compiled by The Builders’ Conference, our Contracts League reveals who’s winning the most work. And every month no matter who comes out on top, by far the greatest volume of new work is let in the residential sector. House-building is the industry’s biggest single sector and house-builders enjoy the highest profit margins….
Running under the banner ‘Work dead safely: Stay alive’, the Scotland’s trade body has produced a new animation, brochure and infographic to stress the importance of observing correct safe isolation procedures. It also reinforces the dangers of not isolating safely, with case studies of electricians who have been burned, scarred for life and even killed…
Like similar reforms in England, the Welsh proposals are informed by the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire in London. However, they are not restricted to high rise buildings. Proposals in the Safer Buildings in Wales white paper cover all multi-occupied residential buildings, from a house converted into two flats, to a high-rise apartment block. Wales’ housing…
Janice Smith Smith, who has 20 years’ experience as a qualified civil and structural engineer, started with the firm this month. She is taking over the region’s leadership from executive director, Phil Richardson who is due to retire in the spring. As well as civil and structural engineering services, Curtins offers transport planning, environmental, infrastructure,…
The introduction of Build Ayrshire follows the success of a similar programme in Lanarkshire. The new eight-week programme of practical instruction is designed to guide local construction industry-related businesses on winning new, high-value work from Scotland’s Tier 1 building contractors. An initial online information day will be hosted by Hub South West on 14th January….
As of 8th January 2021, Anne-Marie Trevelyan is minister in charge of the construction industry Kwasi Kwarteng was given the construction brief at the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) in December 2020, taking the place of Nadhim Zahawi, who had been transferred to the job of overseeing the roll-out of Covid vaccines…
