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…
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…
The move signals a closer cooperation in procurement between the different BAM companies, apparently triggered by last month’s promotion of Dan Billinge to head of procurement last month. The Polypipe deal is expected to be the first of several such arrangements. The agreement with Polypipe supports earlier and closer collaboration throughout the project life cycle….
Dean Pinner, managing director of CCF, has been appointed managing director of Keyline. Former Keyline managing director Paul Beaman is now regional managing director of Travis Perkins for Scotland and northern England. Catherine Gibson, currently managing director of Travis Perkins Tool Hire, has been promoted to managing director of CCF, taking over from Dean Pinner….
HM Revenue & Customs says that the construction sector has accounted for 8.9% of the total £41.36bn paid out under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) by the end of September 2020. Employers have been able to claim CJRS support for employees furloughed from 1st March 2020. In the construction sector, 27% of employers –…
The planned HS2 Curzon Street Station in Birmingham The enabling work is needed for the planned Birmingham Eastside extension to serve the new HS2 Curzon Street Station on its proposed route to Digbeth. HS2 and WMCA have developed joint plans to ensure the utility diversions needed around the new HS2 Curzon Street station don’t conflict…
The Mission Room It is described as “advanced 4D learning technology that enables site teams to identify, record and resolve site hazards as part of a virtual construction sequence evaluation and training”. The cloud-based SafetiBase 4D software has been developed by BBV and tech company 3D Repo with financial backing from HS2 Ltd. Users enter…
