Since sentencing guidelines were racketed up in February 2016, fines in the Construction division have reached £14m, making it the most costly Health and Safety sector. Manufacturing follows closely behind at £12m.
Four construction companies were fined over £1m in 2016. The largest fine happened when a Balfour Beatty ...
Within any workplace, safety is absolutely crucial. However, some environments pose bigger risks than others. A building site, for example, has the potential to be extremely hazardous, but managed correctly, these risks can be significantly reduced. One way to help with the prevention of accidents and injuries is the ...
Severn Trent has parted company with their Preferred Supplier on the Frankley Water Treatment Works near Birmingham. The joint venture, between Interserve and Kier, has been terminated following a 6-month Early Contractor Involvement period. It is now understood that Severn Trent are now talking to other contractors. ...
The last offsite unit in Europe’s tallest modular tower has now been lifted into place at Wembley in London. The 29-storey student accommodation scheme, development by Tide Construction and Vision Modular Systems, has been completed in a fast-track time of 12 months.
The project at Apex House has ...
At a time when there is great demand on house building and skilled workers are in short supply, a new house building system has just been launched which sees houses being built in just 5 days.
H+H UK Ltd and SIG Offside have developed a ‘SIG House System’ that combines all of the offsite construction with a ...
Bouygues have announced this week that they will not be taking the project beyond the present scope of the pre – construction services agreement.
The Battersea Power Station Development Company are already in talks with other contractors to deliver the residential-led phase of the project. This stage of the ...
Developers, Buckland Development Limited, have submitted an outline planning application for a 6,000 new home community scheme in Welborne, just north of Fareham in Hampshire. The scheme will create a village and district centre with retail, commercial and employment uses, plus primary and secondary schools, healthcare ...
The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) have warned that the construction industry could lose almost 200,000 EU workers post-Brexit should Britain no longer belong to the single market. Since this would put some of the country’s biggest infrastructure and construction projects under threat, they are calling for ...
Philip Hammond confirmed in his March Budget that an extra £536m will be pumped into new schools and maintaining existing schools in England. Furthermore, the Government has agreed to a one-off payment of £320m for 140 new free schools on top of the 500 schools that has been pledged for new-build by 2020. A ...
Bricklayers, surveyors, carpenters; just a few of the professions who use different types of spirit level as an essential part of their toolkit. Used to ascertain whether a surface is level on a horizontal surface or plumb, or for vertical accuracy, the history of the spirit level is thought to date back as far as the ...
Taylor Wimpey have managed to beat rival bids from Berkeley, Balfour Beatty, Lendlease and C&C Properties & Pinnacle Group for the £1bn Winstanley and York Road Scheme in Battersea. Situated next to Clapham Junction’s railway station, the Scheme is being promoted as the flagship project in the Government’s ...
Skanska UK is the first UK contractor to trial hi-tech hard hats on its sites. The DAQRI Smart Helmet, that looks like a cross between google-glass technology and a hard hat, provides users with data and information overlaid on their goggles. The helmet is being billed as “the world’s first wearable machine ...
