Brand-new Kitchen and Bathroom showroom highlighting modern technology opens at Huws Gray Ridgeons Saffron Walden.
A huge revamp has recently brought the kitchen and bathroom showroom at Huws Gray Ridgeons Saffron Walden to the forefront of modern living in it’s displays of kitchens and bathrooms. Customers will now benefit from being able to look, touch and feel modern technology...
A more frequent service to operate on Richmond and Clapham Junction to Stratford routes
Five trains per hour service will operate on both branches Some uneven timetable gaps have been removed Customers using the London Overground routes from Richmond and Clapham Junction to Stratford will benefit from a more regular service from Monday 16 December, as...
Amey addresses skills shortage through new apprenticeship programme
Leading public services provider, Amey, is working with client Severn Trent to deliver a new apprenticeship programme that aims to address a key skills gap in the water industry. The Water Process Technician Apprenticeship is being delivered in partnership with...
Early Festive Delivery for Grassmarket Community Project as Hub South East hands over £20k
Hub South East, Development Partner to public sector bodies in Edinburgh, the Lothians and Borders, this week presented an early Christmas present to the Grassmarket Community Project, handing over £20,000 thanks to a Charity Golf Day held earlier this year. Hub’s...
West Calder High School scoops Project of the Year award
The multi-award winning West Calder High School was given the much coveted Project of the Year title at the Education Buildings Scotland Awards recently. The £32 million project to deliver a state-of-the-art learning facility in West Calder opened to pupils last year,...
Moray’s young people get hands on at ‘Constructing Your Future’ workshops
Over 100 pupils from secondary schools across Moray have benefited from dedicated construction sector workshops hosted by Moray College UHI. Developed by Moray Skills Pathway in partnership with its Construction Sector group, it follows on from the success of last...
ISG secures £89 million Cardiff mixed-use transport interchange project
ISG has secured an £89 million construction project to deliver the Cardiff Transport Interchange building for Cardiff-based developer Rightacres at its flagship Central Square scheme. The project is being funded by Legal & General and designed by Cardiff-based...
NORTHERN IRISH COMPANY WINS A PLACE ON LEAGUE TABLE OF THE UK’S FASTEST-GROWING PRIVATE COMPANIES
Published this weekend, the 23rd annual Sunday Times Virgin Atlantic Fast Track 100 league table ranks Britain’s private companies with the fastest-growing sales. Leading housebuilder the Braidwater Group, which ranks at No 55 nationally, is the only Northern Ireland...
Balfour Beatty Living Places secures £217 million highways contract for Lincolnshire County Council
Balfour Beatty Living Places today announces it has been awarded a six year, £217 million contract by Lincolnshire County Council for the maintenance of highways assets. There is an option to extend the contract for a further six years. Balfour Beatty Living places...
Omnciom Balfour Beatty recognised for best in class use of emerging technology
Omnicom Balfour Beatty was praised last night at the Transport for London (TfL) Supplier Awards for their unrivaled use of emerging technology. The TfL Supplier Awards, aptly hosted in the London Transport Museum, recognises top suppliers who are contributing to the...
London-based architecture firms pledge net-zero operational carbon design strategies for all future projects
Perkins and Will, in partnership with Penoyre & Prasad, will offer costed, net-zero carbon operational design strategies to all clients up to RIBA Stage 2 The built environment contributes to 40 percent of the UK’s total carbon footprint The carbon-neutral design...
The Housing Forum calls for General Election candidates to back quality-housing drive
The Housing Forum is writing to all main party candidates standing in the General Election in England, urging them to place quality house building at the heart of their political agenda. Addressing politicians representing Conservative, Labour and the Liberal...
LIVERPOOL WATERS WELCOMES START-UPS TO PRINCES DOCK
Liverpool Waters has welcomed two start-up business tenants to The Quay, Princes Dock, with professional services firm, Odin Consulting and financial services provider, Epic Finance, having recently moved into the city centre location. For Epic Finance, this move is a...
Amey to trial the world’s first retrofitted autonomous pickup truck in Australia
Amey Australia’s regional autonomous vehicle trial was unveiled at the Australia and New Zealand Driverless Vehicle Initiative (ADVI) summit by Transport Minister Hon. Paul Toole, Transport Minister in Sydney last month. The trial will see Amey operate the world’s...
Uber London Limited found to be not fit and proper to hold a private hire operator licence
Pattern of failures placed passenger safety and security at risk meaning TfL cannot renew licence Breaches included unauthorised drivers exploiting vulnerabilities in the app to carry thousands of passengers Legislation means Uber can continue to operate pending any...
UK CONSTRUCTION SECTOR R&D SPEND REACHES RECORD £351MILLION
Manchester, 25 November 2019 – The UK construction industry has increased its R&D spending to a record high of £351m, the latest ONS data has revealed. The total amount spent on R&D by businesses in the construction sector rose 9.7% annually, analysis by...
RESEARCH REVEALS OVER A THIRD OF PEOPLE ARE PAYING TOO MUCH IN HOUSING COSTS
Younger people and women are the most likely to suffer from the problem of finding affordable housing New research (1) reveals that 19% of people are spending more than half of their monthly net household income on housing costs such as mortgage or rent payments,...
Builders Warehouse Gives Charities £20k Supplies Boost
Charities and hospices across England and Wales have received almost £20,000 worth of food and supplies, thanks to a generous pre-Christmas giveaway by a leading builders merchant. All 67 branches of Selco Builders Warehouse surprised local good causes with food...
Stricter enforcement of Rotherhithe Tunnel’s vital safety restrictions set to prevent drivers endangering themselves and others
Vehicles that are more than two metres wide or two metres high, or goods vehicles weighing more than two tonnes* have been banned from the Rotherhithe Tunnel since September 2018 Goods vehicles weighing more than two tonnes will now be fined each time they break the...
Planning application submitted for National Manufacturing Institute Scotland
A planning application has been submitted for the development of the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS) situated at the centre of the Advanced Manufacturing Innovation District Scotland (AMIDS) in Renfrewshire. NMIS is a £65 million, industry-led...
Adoption of fingerprint drug test system set to save construction company around $20-25,000 CAD annually
Fingerprint test being used as part of ‘fitness to work’ recruitment process Replaces urine testing, as fingerprint method provides results on-site within minutes as part of streamlined in-house interview process Part of the Wilco Group, the largest civil and...
Clear Sustainable Futures targets local businesses to help transform Bolton
Clear Sustainable Futures – a strategic infastructure and construction framework partnership with Bolton Council, – is offering local SME’s the opportunity to deliver facilities management, construction and support services across the Council’s property estate through...
The Most Successful Cities In The UK For Tradespeople
Where in the UK is the best place to start a trade business? Confused.com clears up confusion with comparison of the survival rates of different trade businesses countrywide. Leicester named the best city for trades, with the top survival rate in the country....
SJIB Celebrates 50 Years of Service to the Electrical Industry
The Scottish Joint Industry Board (SJIB) will celebrate its 50thanniversary at a gala banquet at Edinburgh Castle later this week. SJIB members and special guests will gather at the historic landmark on Thursday 21 November to mark five decades of achievement. The...
TfL and the police reaffirm their commitment to reducing road danger as part of Road Safety Week
Travel Safe Priority Areas trialled to combat community concerns in Shoreditch and Camden with high visibility and covert policing Work underway to lower the central London speed limit to 20mph as part of wider plans to eradicate death and serious injuries on the...
Four Leicester businesses join forces to Build School in developing world
Four Leicestershire based businesses and a primary school are combining resources in order to raise £29,000 to help build a school as part of global initiative called “buildOn” which has so far constructed 1,300 schools in some of the most economically poorest...
TfL’s Brendan Gallagher recognised with an Honorary BEM
Transport for London’s Brendan Gallagher has been recognised with an Honorary BEM for services to Young People. The Honorary British awards are given to foreign nationals, such as Brendan who originally comes from Sligo in Ireland, for their services. Brendan...
Majority of Brits overestimate how hard Brexit has hit house prices in their area
Three-quarters of Brits think Brexit has had a worse impact on the UK’s house prices than it actually has. New research[1] from Good Move, the regulated property buyer, asked 2,000 Brits to estimate house prices in different UK cities, including their own, and how...
Revealed: the UK cities where couples take the longest to buy a house together
The average UK couple waits two years and two months before buying a property Cardiff couples wait the longest before buying a house together – Mancunians are the quickest Women want to wait two months longer than men before buying property together Buying a...
Defibrillators fitted at all Selco branches
A leading UK builders merchant has demonstrated its commitment to customer and staff welfare by installing dozens of new defibrillators across its entire business. All 67 branches, as well as the Support Centre in Wythall near Birmingham and the new Edmonton delivery...
mac-group wins £12m intu Merry Hill modernisation project
West Midlands-based construction company mac-group has won its biggest retail contract yet after securing a £12 million deal to modernise the façade at the intu Merry Hill in Brierley Hill. Works on the first phase started earlier this month where the contractor will...
Omnicom Balfour Beatty and The University of York revolutionise the future of railway inspections
A new Artificial Intelligence computer software, developed in partnership by Omnicom Balfour Beatty and The University of York, and supported by Innovate UK, is set to revolutionise the rail track inspection process and save the rail industry £10 million in track...
The Royal Liver Building to pay respects to fallen heroes with commemorative light display
The Royal Liver Building to Liverpool’s most recognisable building, The Royal Liver Building, will pay tribute to the Armed Forces, veterans and allies through a specially commissioned commemorative light display. Following on from the inaugural light show, Flight,...
Worcester Bosch pledges support to ‘Time to Change’ movement
7th November 2019: Worcester Bosch has announced its support to the Time to Change Employer Pledge, which aims to change the way people think and act about mental health in the workplace. With one in four British workers affected by conditions like anxiety, depression...
WORK TO DELIVER SIX NEW COMMUNITIES COMPLETES IN NORTH LANARKSHIRE
Work has officially completed on a landmark project to deliver 139 affordable homes across North Lanarkshire. Robertson Partnership Homes, the affordable homes division of Robertson – one of the UK’s leading infrastructure companies – built the units across six sites,...
Amey offers helping hand into employment
Leading public services provider Amey, has been giving people a helping hand into employment through a number of local and national programmes. At Amey, diversity and inclusion go hand-in-hand. We believe in helping people into work and giving them every opportunity...