Paul Wheelhouse The Scottish Industrial Energy Transformation Fund (SIETF) is open to industries where energy usage makes up a significant part of production costs. Scottish businesses can apply for match funded grants of more than £125,000 to invest in energy efficiency and low-carbon technologies. The fund will prioritise helping the most energy-intensive industrial sectors to…
Kwasi Kwarteng is now minister in charge of construction Nadhim Zahawi, construction minister since July 2019, was last month given the job of overseeing the roll-out of Covid vaccines at the Department of Health & Social Care. Although he remains a junior minister at the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS), most of…
At the moment, if you’re not on the list, you don’t get it. Soon, the list if approved suppliers will not be set in stone. From July 2021 a new dynamic purchasing system (DPS) will replace the current delivery partner panel (DPP3). The DPS will change how Homes England procures housebuilders, it said, “increasing flexibility…
Hudson Contract said that average weekly pay rose month-on-month by 1.2% during November to £901, the highest level since February. The best-performing regions for earnings growth were the northeast (up 8.4%), London (up 6.8%) and the southwest (up 5.3%). Hudson managing director Ian Anfield said: “It was business as usual for most construction firms last…
Imported timber being unloaded at a UK dock (Image courtesy of SCA Wood UK) The Timber Trade Federation (TTF) is advising all timber users and buyers to talk to their suppliers to shore up their purchasing strategies. The timber supply chain has been affected in 2020 by pandemic-related issues as well as changes in market…
Ideal Modular Homes’ factory is on Liverpool’s Triumph Business Park While the business has continued to trade, it is now under new management and new ownership. Assets and employees have transferred from the legal entity Ideal Modules Limited into a new legal entity, IDMH Limited. Former major shareholder Luke Barnes, who set up the business…
CGI of McCarthy & Stone’s Hexham development, which is its first to use Sigmat’s light gauge steel framing The deal will see Sigmat roll out its light gauge steel framing (LGSF) products across five McCarthy & Stone’s sites by the end of October 2021, totalling more than 200 units. It is expected that by 2025…
Chris Stevens Chris Stevens, a chartered civil engineer, joins Kier from Bouygues UK, where he was managing director. He started his career in construction at Sir Robert McAlpine in 2001 before joining Warings, which was acquired by Bouygues in 2007. He joins Kier in January 2021 with a brief to grow to its presence in…
UKGBC said that it want to bring on board the widest possible range of stakeholders to work together on the project. Production of a built environment roadmap for carbon elimination comes on the back of the government’s new target to cut emissions by 68% by 2030, against 1990 levels. And yesterday the Climate Change Commission,…
The funding has been released to 178 NHS trusts to cover almost 1,800 maintenance projects. The projects are now under way and are expected to be completed by March 2021. Trusts were provided an initial allocation based on need and were asked to put forward suitable projects that would deliver maximum impact and best value…
