This year’s 22-strong shortlist showcases the engineering nous, ingenuity and imagination of the UK’s construction steel industry. The shortlist also shows how steel is employed throughout the UK and Ireland for an extraordinary range of projects, from attenuating the gale-force winds that beset Leeds’s tallest building to creating a new Dublin landmark in the shape of…
Design by Claridge Architects The residential-led proposal has been designed by Claridge Architects for Czero Developments. The site is currently a largely undeveloped urban block comprising former warehouses and a car park. Construction of the new property will see the existing buildings demolished and replaced with 203 build-to-rent apartments constructed with street level commercial units…
Next week, the council is introducing a new recycling service that will see the unwanted carpets and underlay shredded, baled and bound for use as equestrian surface fibre. This provides a stable surface for horses and reduces strain and injury risk at arenas and training enclosures. Skips will be in place at its two recycling…
The investments in new recycling and casting facilities will nearly double production capacity. The company, which is a member of GFG Alliance, said that the £94m investment package will secure Fort William’s future as a ‘Greenaluminium’ hub. Alvance will invest in a new recycling and casting facility that will take aluminium production at its…
Norwich House Apartments as seen on Google Street View Council officers have served an improvement notice on the private owner of Norwich House Apartments, requiring a list of remedial actions – including the removal of aluminium composite material (ACM), the type of cladding used at Grenfell Tower. The block, on Streatham High Road in south…
The WaveWalker jack-up barge can move sideways by moving four of its eight legs at a time The Network Rail project is designed to protect the railway and town from rising sea levels, and extreme weather, such as the flooding that closed the line in 2014. BAM Nuttall is accessing the sea face of the…
Teesport PD Ports, owner and operator of Teesport, has entered into an agreement with Wentworth Clean Power (WCP) to develop a 30MW waste-to-energy project by Teesport Commerce Park. WCP, a newly formed business with no apparent track record, will develop, finance and deliver the project on Dockside Road. The Teesport Renewable Energy Centre, will sit…
ESS Safeforce, part of the Vp group, has placed an advance order for 150 of SiteZone’s re-styled personnel distancing systems (PDS) that is about to come to market. The technology has been developed to help manage social distancing in the workplace, to help prevent the spread of germs and disease. Wearers of the PDS units…
The scaffolding collapsed onto Maidenhead High Street High Wycombe Magistrates Court heard how the collapse onto Maidenhead High Street on 30th April 2018 could have resulted in serious injury or loss of life. An investigation by the Health & Safety Executive found that the underlying cause of the scaffold collapse was a lack of training…
The base will will support the offshore wind farm (images by NnG Offshore Wind Limited) The East Lothian and Berwickshire supply chain is being offered the opportunity to support the build of the operations and maintenance (O&M) base at Eyemouth Harbour. The base will will support the Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) Offshore Wind Farm, which…
