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  • Houses developed by Persimmon Homes and Bellway Homes have potentially dangerous fire safety issues, BBC Watchdog Live has found. New-builds constructed by the firms were sold with missing or incorrec ...
  • Women in the West Midlands are being encouraged to choose a career in the construction industry, with HS2 keen to ensure that more women benefit from the 30,000 jobs they say the project will support. ...
  • The UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) has released a new framework to help the construction industry achieve net zero carbon buildings in the UK. Produced after six months of consultation with over 18 ...
  • Willmott Dixon has set-up the first of what it hopes will become a series of skills academies in prisons. The company has teamed up with HMP Elmley in Kent to launch the Willmott Dixon Building Lives ...
  • Crossrail could open as late as 2021 under a new schedule for completing the delayed project. Bosses said they had identified a six-month window for delivery of the central section of the line, betwee ...
  • Housebuilder Mactaggart & Mickel has become one of the first British firms to adopt a new generation of hard hat, which features an innovative impact absorption system. The German-made ENHA Ranger hea ...
  • Danish toy maker Lego has announced a scheme whereby visually impaired children will be able to learn braille by using customised Lego bricks. The bricks will be moulded with the same number of studs ...
  • US researchers have invented a nanogenerator that could one day be added to solar panels to keep them producing energy when covered in snow. The team, based at the University of California, Los Angele ...
  •   Vancouver developer Delta Land Corporation is planning to challenge for the title of world’s tallest timber tower with a mass timber, Passive House design by US architect  Perkins + Will. The Canada ...
  • Edinburgh Airport

    01 May 2019
    OVERVIEW It is essential that, during heavy rainfall, stormwater drains as quickly as possible from the new 75,000m² concrete pavement area created as part of the Stands Development. Due to their loca ...
  • OVERVIEW Key requirements for this development are the provision of circa 58 hectares of green open space and the adoption of, as well as addition to, existing mature trees and hedgerows, as part of a ...
  • M56 Lymm

    01 May 2019
    OVERVIEW As part of their Highways England Area 10 maintenance contract, designers from the Balfour Beatty Mott MacDonald (BBMM) Joint Venture first investigated the potential of SDS Aqua-Xchange™ to ...
  • Huws Gray Relies on Doosan

    01 May 2019 Sally Wenham
    Doosan stamina helps Huws Gray build service excellence.
  • Clerkenwell is an area of London famed for its high concentration of design houses, architecture practices and creative businesses, making it one of the most important design hubs in the world. It’s a ...
  • Waterloo Station

    29 Apr 2019 SPS Envirowall
    SPSenvirowall’s Dynamic Cladding, one of the world’s highest safety rated cladding products has been used for the first phase of London’s Waterloo train station £800m development project. The A1 non-c ...
  • 10,000 Downloads for Cure It App

    29 Apr 2019 Cure It
    The Cure It App is free to download and is an essentail tool for installing the Cure It Roofing System.
  • Oxford Point

    29 Apr 2019 SPS Envirowall
    New student accommodation part of development across three sites for additional teaching space, student hub and increase in student accommodation. As part of the development for Bournemouth University ...
  • The Cure It YouTube channel features video tutorials and guides.
  • Premier Inn, Cardiff Bay

    29 Apr 2019 SPS Envirowall
    Located near the centre of Cardiff Bay, Premier Inn was recently completed by installers Build-Therm Services for RGB Group who utilised SPSenvirowall’s external wall insulation system with a flexible ...
  • Trelawny Gardens

    29 Apr 2019 SPS Envirowall
    A brand new DCH development scheme called Trelawny Gardens is a prominently located development in the North Prospect area of Plymouth and has transformed the former site of South Trelawny School into ...
  • Primrose Park

    29 Apr 2019 SPS Envirowall
    Primrose Park, sits on a former school site, brought forward by Plymouth City Council for development under their Plan for Homes initiative. The 72 homes built by Mi-space UK Ltd, part of Midas Group, ...
  • Labour says it would scrap a government scheme that allows offices and industrial buildings to be converted into homes without planning permission. The party said changes to permitted development rule ...
  • It's the longest period of time the country has gone without using coal since before the industrial revolution. Britain has broken its record for using energy generated from sources other than coal du ...
  • From gold ceilings to smart info boards, we have a first look inside Tottenham Court Road to see what’s coming down the line... There is a secret door at Tottenham Court Road Tube station. On one side ...

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