Construction News
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SME construction workers get 1.5% pay rise
A 1.5% pay rise for construction workers has been agreed for 2021/22 following pay negotiations between the Federation of Master Builders (FMB) and Unite the union.
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Whitest-ever paint holds promise of cooler buildings
Engineers at a US university have developed a paint so white that they believe it could make a big impact in cooling buildings.
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Grafton hangs ‘for sale’ sign round Buildbase
Grafton Group, the building materials distributor and DIY retailer, is mulling the sale of several of its businesses, including Buildbase.
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Builders' merchant gets battery-powered lorry
Drywall and partitioning supplier CCF has taken delivery of the UK’s first 27-tonne curtainside battery electric vehicle (BEV).
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Self-employed earnings return to pre-Covid levels
Self-employed tradespeople have just enjoyed their best month for earnings since the start of the pandemic, according to Hudson Contract.
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Anti-ageing cream for roads
Highways England is hosting a trial of a new polymer-modified bitumen mix that is being described as an anti-ageing cream for roads.
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Formula One technology saves Kier fuel
Kier is trialling a new fuel-saving generator technology on a site in Lancashire.
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Builders surprise young friend with toys
Groundworkers from Birmingham civils contractor MV Kelly are generating a lot of love and support after a heart-warming post on social media.
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Product shortages set to get worse
The Construction Leadership Council has issued a warning to the industry that shortages of building products and materials are set to get worse before they get better.
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Travis Perkins halves gender pay gap in a year
Latest pay gap report from builders’ merchant group Travis Perkins shows that its gender pay gap has halved compared to the previous year.
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Boss fined £1k after worker’s roof fall
The boss of a Dorset construction company has been fined £1,000 plus costs for running a site that provided no height safety protection to employees.
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Police seek witnesses to HS2 site attack
Thames Valley Police are appealing for witnesses after a group attacked an HS2 construction site in Buckinghamshire last Friday night.
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Green Homes Grant scheme scrapped
The government has pulled the plug on its Green Homes Grant scheme, which was supposed to deliver £2bn of home improvements in the six months to March 2021.
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UK construction still has 229,200 on furlough
While much of the industry is back working at full or near-full capacity, there are still nearly a quarter of a million people from across construction who are on furlough.
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Environment Agency gives builders a kicking
The Environment Agency has handed out a public rebuke to the construction industry for its waste management record.
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Scaffolders and plant operators behind CITB U-turn
The urgent need to keep training courses for scaffolders and plant operators lay behind the Construction Industry Training Board’s surprise decision this week to hold on to its colleges.
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Shrewsbury Pickets' convictions finally overturned
Nearly 50 years after their original sentencing, the Shrewsbury Pickets have finally had their convictions quashed by the Court of Appeal.
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Readie becomes largest employee owned construction contractor
Readie Construction has become the largest employee owned construction contractor in the UK with the owners selling up to an employee ownership trust.
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CITB in shock colleges U-turn
The Construction Industry Training Board has scrapped its plans to sell its colleges and quit training.
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Boost for bootcamps
The government is planning to expand its skills bootcamp programme and has stumped up an extra half a million pounds to expand two of the construction centres.
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£342bn needed to bring UK homes up to EPC C
MPs are warning the government that is has vastly underestimated the task involved in getting the UK’s existing housing stock to be adequately energy efficient.
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£500k fine after 6ft fall
Energy company Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy Ltd has been fined more than half a million pounds after an agency worker fell six feet from a platform.
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Balfour Beatty makes progress on gender pay gap
Balfour Beatty’s statutory gender pay gap report shows a narrowing in the difference between the average pay of male and female employees across all roles.
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Covid prompts youngsters to think again about apprenticeships and trades
The Covid-19 pandemic has changed many things, including young people’s aspirations.
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Momentum builds behind national retrofit strategy
The Construction Leadership Council is claiming widespread industry support for its proposed national retrofit strategy.
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Britain needs to recruit a Green Homes army
Retrofitting and refurbishing buildings to the extent necessary to meet government energy efficiency targets requires an additional 350,000 skilled construction workers in Britain by 2028.
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Self-employed face lock-out from public sector sites
The Construction Leadership Council is working to get rid of self-employed construction workers from public sector projects by 2024.
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Construction furlough has risen 25% in third lockdown
There has been a significant rise in the number of workers furloughed in the construction sector this year, with 244,100 people on furlough at the end of January 2021.
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Spring budget 2021: highlights and construction industry reaction
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has set a budget that he hopes will promote an investment-led recovery for the UK as the country emerges from lockdown.
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Utilities contractor joins the employee ownership movement
Latest company in the construction sector to move to employee ownership is London utilities contractor Falco Construction Limited.
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