Winvic and Costain are part of a team working on an embodied carbon calculator that exploits artificial intelligence and building information management (BIM) data. Their project, called AI System for Predicting Embodied Carbon in Construction, or ASPEC, has been given an £800,000 grant by Innovate UK. They are working with the University of the West…
The five tower blocks have been designed by architect TateHindle Transport for London’s joint venture with Barratt London plans to build 454 apartments at Wembley Park across five tower blocks, designed by architect TateHindle. Brent Council has approved the plans, which will also change public realm in the and provide new operational space for TfL….
The tunnel would put A303 traffic out of site from Stonehenge The campaign group, calling itself Save Stonehenge World Heritage Site, wants the court to rule that Planning Inspectorate advice is binding on ministers, not advisory. The Planning Inspectorate recommended that consent for the £1.7bn scheme be withheld but transport secretary granted the necessary development…
Plymouth Magistrates’ Court heard how on the 12th April 2019 an employee became trapped when the truck overturned on the construction site. The employee was not wearing a lap belt and he was operating the dumper truck without deploying the roll-over protective structure (ROPS). He survived but suffered multiple crush injuries to his body, when…
The driver had been given no training and was unsupervised when his forward tipping dumper truck overturned and killed him. Swansea Crown Court heard how on 1st October 2016 the employee was working alone at a construction site in West Aberthaw, Vale of Glamorgan. He was operating a dumper around a construction site that had…
The 75 homes will be built at its Bertha Park Village development in Perth, Scotland. The entry into PRS housing for families to rent is expected to provide the company with an additional and secure revenue stream. Bertha Park comprises private and affordable housing, alongside neighbourhood amenities, such as a convenience store, playpark and secondary…
The interim funding available from the Affordable Housing Supply Programme in 2021-22 has been increased from £300m to £500m ahead of January’s Scottish Budget. The Affordable Housing Supply Programme helps to deliver homes for social rent, mid-market rent and shared equity. Communities secretary Aileen Campbell said that housing providers and the construction sector will now…
The hydrogen will be produced through electrolysis powered by an offshore wind turbine Gas network company SGN says that customers in Fife will be the first in the world to heat their homes and cook their food using 100% zero-carbon hydrogen. The hydrogen, which will be produced through electrolysis powered by an offshore wind turbine,…
Nadhim Zahawi, minister for construction and vaccines Nadhim Zahawi will double up as a parliamentary undersecretary of state at the Department of Health & Social Care as well as remaining a parliamentary undersecretary at the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS). His existing responsibilities at BEIS include industrial strategy, business and construction. He…
Darren Butson Darren Butson joins Munnelly Support Services from the £1.5b Elephant & Castle redevelopment in south London, where he spent the past six years with Lendlease. He joined Lendlease in 2008 and began his time there as head of logistics, then project manager, for the London 2012 Olympics’ Athletes’ Village. Previously he had worked…
