VolkerHighways has been awarded a street lighting installation and maintenance contract with Torbay Council, worth £400,000. The contract began on 1 August 2019 and will continue for eight months. The contract comprises the maintenance of 18,000 lighting assets,...

Network Rail has become a national partner in a UK-wide competition to find the engineers of the future, with the 2019 edition launched at Gatwick Airport yesterday morning. The competition – “If you were an engineer, what would you do?” – is a free, annual event that...

A swimming pool designer who built his first pool aged nine has received enquiries from across the globe after one of his designs went viral. Designer Alex Kemsley’s company Compass Pools made headlines around the world recently with their proposals for Infinity...

Midlands based ecology specialists RammSanderson is celebrating its fifth birthday and has also appointed eight new staff at its Stafford office. Founded in 2014 by Oliver Ramm and Nick Sanderson, Ramm Sanderson has steadily grown its turnover to £2m and expanded...

Build to Last delivers increased profitability backed by strong cash performance   Highlights On track to deliver full year performance in line with market expectations Underlying profit from operations (PFO) increased 9% to £72 million (2018: £66 million) PFO...

Over half (58%) of Brits wish they had invested in their future and retirement at an earlier age, according to new research by savings and mortgage provider Nottingham Building Society, known as The Nottingham. The survey of 2,000 UK adults looked at the biggest...

Colleagues at a leading builders merchant raised thousands of pounds by trekking 26 miles along the banks of the River Thames. Twenty-five staff members from five of Selco Builders Warehouse’s south-east branches – Romford, Chelmsford, Enfield, Tottenham and Beckton –...

One of the earliest professions in civilisation, stone masonry has come a long way over the decades, producing stunning engineering feats, advancing technologies and more customer personalisation, all whilst remaining true to its beginnings. Testimony to the longevity...

Balfour Beatty, working in partnership with Thames Water, has saved over one million plastic bags from landfill by utilising a waste plastic asphalt on a key London cycle lane in Stratford, through the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. For the first time on a UK cycle...

Balfour Beatty Living Places and green infrastructure experts, Biotecture, are set to deliver a UK first on behalf of Southampton City Council, as works to install the first hydroponic living wall on a highways scheme commenced this summer. Hydroponic living walls are...

Selco Builders Warehouse has continued its eye-catching fundraising efforts for Macmillan Cancer Support – with the aid of one of the country’s leading cricket teams. Selco Builders Warehouse, lead sponsors for the Birmingham Bears team in the Vitality Blast and...

With the latest Health and Safety Executive (HSE) statistics highlighting that Britain’s death toll from asbestos is at ‘crisis level’*, it’s now more important than ever to recognise the risks of asbestos poisoning in the workplace. There were 2,709 ‘deaths by...

The Cycling Infrastructure Database contains the location of more than 240,000 pieces of cycling infrastructure in London, including places to park and the location of cycle lanes London is the first city in the world to collect data on cycling infrastructure on such...

Balfour Beatty Living Places has been awarded a £34 million, one-year extension for its Warwickshire Highways Maintenance Contract by Coventry City Council, Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council and Warwickshire County Council. This latest award, which marks the...

GODWIN CAPITAL a leading investment company has completed the purchase of a site in Watch House Lane, Bentley, Doncaster. The land has been acquired to create build-to-rent (BTR) homes for the local community. Andrew Mitchell, group investment director at Godwin...

Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) football club has this week unveiled its new ‘PSG Experience’, with the help of design specialists at Mather & Co. The new experience aims to offer fans of the Club, and the game, a behind-the-scenes look at Parc des Princes, where they...

Evolve is delighted to announce its acquisition of the easyProperty brand and the easyProperty platform easyProperty.com. Previously owned by the eProp Services Group PLC, Evolve will complete the purchase at the beginning of August. Established in 2007, Evolve has...

To address the issues of housing supply, equality and to end homelessness in the borough, Enfield Council is planning bold action through two major strategies, starting with a public consultation. The consultation will help the Council develop a ten-year Housing and...

James Beard of Valpak, which sponsored an Explorers Club Flag Expedition that bagged six tonnes of waste from the most densely-polluted beach in the world, has concluded that prevention is the only viable option to halt the tide of marine plastic litter.   The...

Higgins has started work on the £40 million project on Bath Road, Hounslow to deliver 176 much needed affordable homes, along with a new 6100 sq. ft supermarket for residential property group A2Dominion. The scheme, which is on the site of a former Morrisons, will...

Sewer Men - The new two-part documentary series for ITV, follows waste water workers across Severn Trent’s network as they unblock toilets and drains, going waist-deep in sewers clogged with wet wipes and fat. Filmed over three months last summer, the programme, aims...

Freight operators can contact their vehicle manufacturers to ensure they are prepared for the Safety Permit scheme to open Heavy Goods Vehicle (HGV) Safety Permits will be available from 28 October this year Operators of non-compliant HGVs face £550 fine With just...

Weekly earnings for freelance tradespeople in the construction sector bounced back last month, according to latest figures released by Hudson Contract. Analysis of June payroll data for more than 2,200 construction companies in England and Wales reveals a 6.8 per cent...

British Safety Council welcomes HSE guidance on working in hot weather and looks forward to the regulator’s advice for outdoor employees working in polluted urban air As temperatures in Britain soar to the levels that will break all previous records, the Health and...

The number of people killed on London’s roads fell to the lowest level on record in 2018, to 111 fatalities Serious injuries increased by five per cent, bringing the total number of people killed or seriously injured last year to 4,065 The Mayor, TfL and the police...

Morrison Design Limited, Derby’s oldest and largest chartered architectural practice has been acquired by its management team. The deal has remained confidential until recently to ensure all clients were personally informed. The new owners and Directors will be Peter...

Balfour Beatty’s Director of Talent and Development, Jo Volk, was interviewed live on BBC Breakfast today, discussing the importance of developing life skills amongst Apprentices and the value businesses gain from supporting younger generations in this way. Anthony...

Harlaxton Engineering Services are delighted to announce they have been awarded the Constructionline Gold Accreditation – making them one of only a handful of companies in Lincolnshire to achieve this status.   This successful family run business which turned 21...

Thomas Sinden has been appointed by Poplar Harca as contractor to deliver 13 new homes, including a large family dwelling in a single residential block on Bromley High Street, East London. The infill site at 70-76 Bromley High Street, E3 is currently underused and...

‘Know My Name’ campaign shares the stories of five victims of road trauma to communicate the impact it has on people’s lives In 2018, the number of people killed on London’s roads fell to the lowest level on record from 131 in 2017 to 111 in 2018. While this decrease...

Scotland’s first brand new secondary school in more than 25 years is set to open next month following completion of construction work.   Bertha Park High School is a £32.5m project led by hub East Central Scotland on behalf of Perth & Kinross Council with...

Second phase of rollouts extends CityFibre’s Gigabit City programme by a further million homes. Now totals over 2m homes across 26 towns and cities.   Cities named are: Batley, Bradford, Derby, Dewsbury, Doncaster, Inverness, Ipswich, Leicester, Lowestoft,...