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Travis Perkins fined £2m after stray plank kills motorist
Travis Perkins Trading Company Limited admitted three health & safety offences at Hove Crown Court yesterday…
CMA drops admixtures probe due to lack of resources
The CMA suspected foul play in the cement additives market The Competition & Markets Authority (CMA)…
Folkestone brickworks redevelopment moves forward
Remediation work has prepared the site for development After lying derelict for decades, new homes and…
Selco enhances parental leave
Selco Builders Warehouse has introduced 16 weeks of full pay for colleagues on maternity or adoption…
Costain engineer becomes ICE Fellow at 30
Georgia Thompson CEng FICE (and below) The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) has confirmed that Georgia…
Network Rail recruits new Southern MD
Dave Hooper Dave Hooper will join Network Rail Southern from Siemens Mobility on 1st May 2025.…
Timber firm fined for repeated wood dust failures
HSE inspectors visited Timbercraft three times over 12 years Timbercraft Windows & Doors Limited, which also…
Government fleshes out plans to remove roadblocks
Rare species like this great crested newt are to be stripped of their power to prevent…
Highways specialist puts new roller to work
North Herts Surfacing’s JCB CT430-140 North Herts Surfacing has put its new tandem vibratory roller to…
UK Power Networks and Falco trial e-diggers
Takeuchi TB20e excavator ready towork in London A pair of fully-electric Takeuchi TB20e mini excavators are…
Swedish green cement makes UK debut on Sunbury warehouse
Laying the slab for the new Storex self-storage facility in Sunbury Capital Concrete has poured Cemvision…
New MD for HG Construction
Greg Purkiss Commercial director Greg Purkiss has been promoted to managing director at HG Construction in…
Utranazz secures Imer dealership
Utranazz commercial director Will Harris (centre) flanked by Marco Scuratti (left) and Michele Sebastiani (right) both…
Milestone finally set to start on Botley bypass
Funding approval for the Botley bypass final phase was agreed by Hampshire County Council’s cabinet in…
Story targets energy sector
Alan Boyle Story Scotland, the Scottish civil engineering division of Story Contracting, is launching a specialist…
London sees build-to-rent construction slowing
Build-to-rent (BtR) homes under construction in the capital fell by 11% between the third quarter of…
New roof for National Maritime Museum
The new glazed roof that has been installed in the National Maritime Museum Willmott Dixon Interiors…
Persimmon launches training house
The launch attended by suppliers and contractors who contributed to the build of the model home…
Company fined after steeplejack fatality
St Nicholas’ Church in Kings Norton David Clover was employed by Ecclesiastical Steeplejacks Ltd to carry…
Planning reform comes too late to save Norwich road scheme from bats
The 6.1km Norwich Western Link scheme includes a 670-metre viaduct over River Wensum The government is…