The UK and the European Union have agreed a wide-ranging free trade agreement, avoiding the risks associated with a no-deal and delivering continuity in cost and availability of construction products and materials. The deal will mean market access across the English Channel, with no tariffs, quotas or customs duties. The UK and the EU have…
If you’re having a night out at a big show in London’s West End, you’re probably not thinking too much about work. With any luck, you’ll be too absorbed by the drama, the spectacle and the magic that is showbiz. You might, however, briefly wonder just how Aladdin manages to fly on his magic carpet,…
Average sales a day, which take trading day differences into account, were 4.7% up on October 2019. As in September, landscaping was the product category seeing the biggest year-on year growth in October 2020, up 16.5% on 2019. In September landscaping had been up 24.2%. Sales of timber & joinery products rose 5.0% in October…
CGI of Hadley’s plan for Blackwall Yard Blackwall Yard is described as one of the last substantial development sites on the north bank of the Thames. It is close Canary Wharf and Poplar High Street and just across the river from the O2 Arena. The 1.7 ha site was formerly a shipbuilding dock and more…
Andy Appleton Van Elle currently does less than £5m a year of sheet piling works, primarily in its Rail division. Andy Appleton’s remit is to grow the sheet piling business, under the umbrella of Van Elle’s Specialist Piling division. Andy Appleton was previously managing director of Keltbray Sheet Piling for five years until Keltbray shut…
Hong Kong’s Shing Mun reservoir (formerly the Jubilee Dam) is one of many projects designed by Binnie Binnie & Partners was one of the grandest names in British civil engineering, designing dams and water projects around the world. It was taken over by US engineer Black & Veatch in 1995. Under new ownership, it is…
Artist’s impression of Keepmoat Homes’ planned Warren Wood development in Gainsborough Keepmoat Homes has bought two sites in South Yorkshire, one in North Yorkshire and one in North Lincolnshire. The largest of the schemes is at Warren Wood in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, where 454 plots are to be developed with a total gross development value (GDV)…
Manchester Magistrates’ Court heard that on 5th December 2019, an HSE inspector spotted employees of Improvearoof LLP on the roof of a detached property in Hale Barns using two jet washers with no means of fall protection such as scaffolding or harnesses. The HSE inspector issued a prohibition notice and the work was stopped until…
The money for the schemes in Ayr, Hawick and Broughty Ferry is being allocated through the Sustrans Places for Everyone initiative. They will target active modes for everyday journeys by reallocating road space in favour of sustainable active travel modes. The Scottish government has committed to investing over £500m in active travel across the next…
Southampton Magistrates’ Court heard that on 10th May 2018, workers were carrying out work to lay cabling and ducting in loft spaces at newly built residential properties in Swanmore, Southampton without suitable or sufficient protection from falls at height. A 49-year-old electrician fell through the plasterboard loft flooring sustaining multiple fractures to his ribs, shoulders…
