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All Suppliers that want to Bid for Private Sector Work must use BIM tools
By phillaw at March 23, 2012 | 15:31 | 0 Comment
BSI, the global standards organisation has announced that it is working with government, industry bodies, and private construction practices to create best practice standards for implementing Building Information Modelling (BIM) throughout the construction sector. The move comes after the government announced that all suppliers that wish to bid for public sector more...
Northumbrian Water Unveils a Revoloutionary Hydro Power Generation System
By phillaw at March 19, 2012 | 10:24 | 0 Comment
NORTHUMBRIAN Water has unveiled a revolutionary hydro power generation system at a treatment works in the region. Commissioning of the £1.3m plant at Mosswood water treatment works near Consett, County Durham, is now underway after eight months of construction and technical challenges. The announcement came in what has been designated Climate Change Week as the more...
Nuclear not Offshore will Power UK
By phillaw at March 15, 2012 | 11:19 | 0 Comment
Professor Sir David King said the UK will have to move all heating and transport on to electricity to cut emissions from fossil fuels. This will mean producing twice as much electricity but it must be from low carbon sources. The report from the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment (SSEE) at the University of Oxford called for a nuclear base backed up by more...
Miller Counts on Housing Growth
By phillaw at March 15, 2012 | 11:07 | 0 Comment
MILLER Group’s housing division has edged back into profit for the first time since the sector collapse of 2008, with chief executive Keith Miller predicting further steady progress as market conditions improve. Miller Group’s housing division has edged back into profit for the first time since the sector collapse of 2008, with chief executive Keith Miller more...
NewBuy Guarantee
By phillaw at March 13, 2012 | 16:40 | 0 Comment
The government’s newly-launched NewBuy Guarantee could see 50,000 new jobs supported in the construction and related sectors in the next three years. This is according to figures from industry body the House Building Federation, which estimates that 25,000 new homes could be built by the scheme in the next three years and its research shows that each new home built more...
Frimley Park Hospital Given Final Lick of Paint
By phillaw at March 8, 2012 | 13:21 | 0 Comment
A project to provide one of the best emergency departments and day theatres in the country is nearing completion. The H on the helipad at Frimley Park Hospital was given the it's final lick of paint by hospital trust chief executive Andrew Morris and Adam Wells, construction director for contractor VINCI Construction UK, during a topping off ceremony on the £22m more...
Two Leeds Firms in Court Over Worker’s Crush Injuries
By phillaw at March 8, 2012 | 11:50 | 0 Comment
A construction worker had both legs broken when a 22-tonne excavator reversed over him on a building site in Leeds, a court has heard. The excavator on site in Tinshill, Leeds, after the incident The 58-year-old man from Barnsley, suffered severe crush injuries when the excavator backed into him as he erected boundary fencing on a Tinshill building site on 30 June more...
3,000-space cycle park for Cambridge Station is step closer
By phillaw at March 7, 2012 | 10:40 | 0 Comment
Construction of a 3,000-space cycle park at Cambridge station is a step closer after the Government announced £500,000 of funding. Ministers said they would contribute towards the £2.5 million multi-storey facility, the biggest of its kind in the UK, which is part of the cb1 redevelopment. As well as providing much-needed storage space, the hub more...
An Ill Wind of Change
By phillaw at February 9, 2012 | 10:41 | 0 Comment
Less than a week ago 106 mostly Conservative MPs wrote to the Prime Minister, urging cuts in public subsidies to UK windfarms, on the grounds that these towering turbines were neither efficient to run nor pleasing on the eye. Yet today sees the opening, in Cumbria, of the world’s biggest-ever windfarm, the switch-on to be performed by Ed Davey, the new man in charge of more...
UK Construction Output Falling Through this Year
By phillaw at January 26, 2012 | 10:11 | 0 Comment
The news of a double dip recession is now making its way around the UK. Consumer confidence will certainly take note of what this means and housing market figures more than likely reflect the unfortunate news will. Remortgage and original mortgage products will be in competition with one another from various lenders like never before. A double dip recession will not more...
