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  • A new report by Briary Energy, commissioned by Calor, reveals that housebuilders could save up to £500,000 on build costs on a typical 100 plot development if they choose to install LPG heating.
  • Where are we meeting today? RawlTruck has just set off on a Eurotrip......
  • Industry group says firms will have to source product from overseas if Scunthorpe site cannot be saved Contractors will have to get used to the price of steel on their jobs going up and down because t ...
  • CCS supports the public sector to achieve maximum commercial value when procuring common goods and services. In 2017/18, CCS delivered £354 million in commercial benefits including savings for central ...
  • Completed in 2018 this building is a large two storey teaching facility for Fullhurst Community College. The new facility will help the College expand it's offering to students and also provide future ...
  • Figures just released in the BMF’s Builders Merchants Building Index (BMBI) show positive sales growth through UK builders merchants during the first quarter of the year.  Total Q1 sales were up +5.9% ...
  • Springfield Properties has become the UK’s first house builder to use waste plastic to build a road on a housing development. Springfield has used the more environmentally friendly asphalt product con ...
  • The investment bank’s decision to put £75m into TopHat could signal changes to come for the whole housebuilding industry. There’s probably no bigger name in global finance than Goldman Sachs. Infamous ...
  • The Minister of State for Housing has announced plans for a garden community in Greater Exeter with 20,000 new homes. Kit Malthouse MP announced £75,000 of government funding to develop the garden com ...
  • A standardised Lego-style system of components for school building construction has moved a step closer, after an Innovate UK-funded project developed a standardised connector to bolt together modular ...
  • Contractors have welcomed reports that Home Secretary Sajid Javid is pushing for a more flexible approach to immigration post-Brexit. Javid is understood to have asked the Migration Advisory Committee ...
  • The Tour Triangle, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, is poised to become the first skyscraper built in central Paris since 1973, after winning a lengthy court battle. Paris's administrative court has up ...
  • Materials group and UK Construction Week exhibitor Cemex has invested in Californian start-up Energy Vault, a firm that has found a way to store energy inside concrete blocks using a system inspired b ...
  • Researchers from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed the capability to 3-D print an unfurnished bathroom in less than a day. After printing, the bathroom is furn ...
  • Hybrid bonded anchor Efficiency and comfort of use, high technical parameters confirmed by recognised certificates and a wide range of applications with different rod types guarantee durable and secur ...
  • ATC Launch Energy Efficiency Showroom

    22 May 2019 Carole Lawlor
    A new take on energy efficiency in Tallaght, Dublin 24. ATC have launched an innovative Energy Efficiency Showroom at their Dublin HQ, situated in Dublin 24.
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    22 May 2019 Ecodek
     
  • FIS, representative body for the £10 billion finishes and interiors sector in the UK and the Steel Construction Institute (SCI), launched the much-awaited Technical Report ED017 – Design and Installat ...
  • POROFOAM – FOAMED CONCRETE Porofoam is a range of low-density foam concrete designed specifically for voidfill, stabilisation and other lightweight applications. Porofoam is manufactured using CEMEX a ...
  • HS2 will not offer value for money and risks "short changing" the North of England, a group of peers has warned. A report from the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee also said it was "far from ...
  • Party fleshes out plans to take control of electricity and heat networks from 'profiteering' private firms Labour has unveiled detailed plans to nationalise large parts of the UK's energy sector in a ...
  • Japan’s biggest house-builder is entering the UK market – with financial support from UK taxpayers. Sekisui House has set up in the UK with £22m of its own money and £30m from the government’s Home Bu ...
  • ISG head the top contractors table for April 2019 awards thanks to eight contracts awarded at a total cost of £350 million. A housing led re-generation scheme in Camberley contributed £20 million to t ...
  • Homeless people in Cardiff could be living in converted shipping containers by the end of the year. Work starts this month on 13 homes to be built on the site of a former vets' clinic in Butetown, wit ...

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