Construction News

The division of Amey’s facilities management business that supports the rehabilitation of offenders has teamed up with a paint recycling business.

Galliford Try calculates that a hybrid power generator system has saved one of its sites more than 35,000 litres of diesel over the past year.

Blackburn based, Monks Contractors Ltd recently took delivery of a new JCB JS20MH wheeled material handler and 30 new BMI ejector and walking floor trailers.

Despite sterling efforts from across the construction industry to provide essential services throughout the spring 2020 lockdown, and to turn conference centres into hospitals, there seems to be remarkably little recognition in the Queen's Birthday Honours List 2020.

Ainscough Crane has blamed generally challenging trading conditions for a fall in turnover and a loss on operations last year.

The government’s proposals to reform the planning systems are encountering headwinds, with local authorities warning that affordable housing will be hit and former prime minister Theresa May saying that no more housing will result.

Tool and equipment hire group Speedy reports that its sales for the six months April to September 2020 will be down just 20% on 2019’s numbers.

With fewer than 90 days to go until the UK leaves the EU single market and customs union, the government is urging all businesses to get up to speed on what the known implications are for them.

Tool hire chain HSS Hire Group has announced plans to close more than half of its branches in a bid to finally become profitable.

Three of the UK’s largest house-builders – Barratt, Bellway and Taylor Wimpey – are collaborating in research to reduce packaging waste.

Eight of the UK construction industry’s bigger trade associations have joined forces to present a united front to government in the campaign to save the industry’s diesel tax rebate.

Highways England and Kier are trialling a giant airbag to protect road workers from traffic.

The government has said that new homes developed under permitted development rights must be at least 37 square metres.

Latest housing statistics from the government reveal that new-build starts and completions in England reached their lowest level for at least 20 years in the second quarter of 2020.

Civil engineering contractor FM Conway is using a pair of e-cargo bikes to move materials around central London.

Road technology used in smart motorways has failed to keep pace with developments in vehicle technologies, researchers have found.

BAM is set to start work in November on the construction of a £350m arena in east Manchester after the city council gave planning permission yesterday.

Sales data from Britain's builders' merchants indicate a solid V-shaped recovery for the industry.

The government’s Construction Leadership Council is banging the drum for the construction industry to lead the way in using the new NHS Covid-19 app.

The Health & Safety Executive is launching a one-month initiative targeting construction sites, starting on Monday 5th October 2020.

East Yorkshire manufacturer Timloc Building Products has produced a ‘hedgehog highway’ to help tackle the declining number of hedgehogs across the UK.

Contractors with unused construction material left over at the end of a project have a new place to advertise it rather than send it to landfill.

Morgan Sindall and Willmott Dixon have overtaken Mace as employees’ favourite big UK contractor to work for, according to Glassdoor ratings.

Wembley Scaffolding Services Limited has been fined, and its boss given a suspended prison sentence, after a worker suffered a fatal fall during dismantling.

Trade union fears that a ratings app for asbestos workers was open to abuse have been dismissed by the organisation behind the new digital tool.

Construction of the second nuclear reactor at Hinkley Point C has passed a key milestone with the lifting of the first part of the steel containment liner.

Demand for labour in the UK construction industry has recovered to nearly 80% of pre-lockdown capacity, according to the biggest payer of subcontractors in the sector.

The wage bill threshold below which construction firms are exempt from the CITB levy is set to rise in April 2021 from £80,000 to £120,000.

A company in Norfolk has been fined £20,000 after a worker managed to get his head trapped between an excavator bucket and a gate post.

Bowmer & Kirkland has suspended work on its Summit Park development site in Sutton-in-Ashfield for a programme of cleaning and testing after an outbreak of Covid-19 cases.