Crane driver Katie Kelleher has worked on both land and water, lending her expertise to two major London infrastructure projects – Crossrail and Tideway. She is working hard to try and change the face of [read more…]
Following significant growth in the use of mobile plant equipment in the UK, Bureau Veritas is warning firms to be vigilant when it comes to achieving compliance. It comes as the UK Mobile Elevated Working [read more…]
With cyber attacks becomingly more costly and targeted, complacency towards cyber security not only places contractors’ own systems at risk, but also that of suppliers and partners within their supply chain. Bryan Banbury, Managing Director [read more…]
Guy Other, CEO at Orbis Protect, a leading player in the property security and lone worker markets, discusses how to keep void properties secure. Construction in the UK contributes billions every year to the UK [read more…]
Joseph Daniels, Chief Executive of Modular Homes provider Project Etopia, explains how modular home production could replace car production in the UK, becoming one of the nation’s biggest exports in the process. Manufacturing in the [read more…]
UK construction and engineering firms face severely adverse changes to their insurance policy conditions this year that will threaten their abilities to conduct business, according to Mactavish, the leading expert on commercial insurance placement and [read more…]
Lowest-price tendering is forcing contractors to price their work at unrealistically low levels, which is likely to have serious consequences for the construction industry, according to ICAEW. In its Audit Insight report into construction, ICAEW warns [read more…]
The Considerate Constructors Scheme – the not for profit organisation that works with contractors, clients, the construction supply chain and communities to enhance the image of the construction industry – is introducing a series of [read more…]
There is widespread hostility to Brexit amongst the construction industry; with a majority fearing that it will severely increase the labour shortage in the UK construction industry as the supply of labour from the EU [read more…]
The primary concerns of the National Federation of Builders (NFB) is the supply chain and the thousands of workers who will be wondering if they still have a job on the morning of 18 March [read more…]
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