The sale includes the land, buildings and business, with all 17 NCC staff being transferred over as employees of Walsall College. The sale of the college by CITB is part of its ‘Vision 2020’ restructuring to withdraw from the direct provision of training. The Bircham Newton facility in Norfolk – officially National Construction College East…
The Deck Scraper Highways England says that it has invested £650,000 into the development of the new Deck Scraper vehicle, made by Minneapolis-based National Flooring Equipment. The Deck Scraper uses a blade to shave off the asphalt membrane, making it much quieter than a steel-toothed excavator bucket hacking at it. Its adoption in the UK…
Marylebone Square is designed by Simon Bowden Architecture Kier will put up a nine-storey, 25,160 sq m building on the site of the former Moxon Street carpark – said to be the the last whole city block in the W1 postcode to be developed. The building has been designed by Simon Bowden Architecture “in the style…
Aynsley Cheatley Opening of the new, bigger office on the west side of Edinburgh is part of a strategic growth plan. The move to larger premises on an initial five-year lease has been made to help meet rising demand after a series of contract wins, with further growth planned in 2021. The expansion into a…
Following an investigation by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR), Scotland’s Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service prosecuted Network Rail for allowing trains to travel at more than 100mph over the badly storm-damaged structure. Network Rail has now been fined by Lanark Sheriff Court for the safety breach, after pleading guilty to an offence…
CGI of the northern tunnel entrance to the proposed Lower Thames Crossing in Essex Highways England submitted its application to the Planning Inspectorate on 23rd October 2020, only to withdraw it again on 20th November. Highways England initially failed to provide enough information with its application – it omitted responses to its statutory consultation and…
Proving the business case through the demonstrator prototype is intended to enable climate-positive communities like those created by SNRG to be brought into the mainstream Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIC), Edinburgh Napier University (ENU) Centre for Offsite Construction & Innovative Structures (COCIS), Scottish Forestry, Confederation of Forest Industries (Confor) and SNRG have secured funding from…
The Scottish Plant Owners Association (SPOA) said that there is currently no penalty except from being banned from that particular site or dismissed by the employer. In the short term, operators are sent home and will not be allowed to work that day but there is no long-term penalty as they can apply to work…
Severfield hanging steel at Lord’s Cricket Ground Despite starting its financial year in April, just after the UK went into lockdown, Severfield emerged unscathed. Its half-year revenue was up 40% to £186.0m (2019 H1: £131.7m). Even with Covid-19 impacting the economy, operating profit (before JVs and associates) was up 16% to £8.1m (2019 H1: £7.0m)….
It is claimed that the chemical and physical composition of the asbestos changes when heated in this oven The demonstration plant removes the nasties from asbestos sheeting and coverts it into a useable aggregate. Approximately 60% of asbestos taken to landfill is in the form of roof sheets. Removing asbestos roof sheets involves putting them…
