Swan / NU living announced the acquisition of a 15-year lease of Basildon 117, a newly built 116,841 sq ft industrial unit, opposite their existing modular housing factory in Basildon,…
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The vast majority of roofing contractors (91 per cent) reported being either ‘busy’ or ‘very busy’ in a recent survey by the UK’s largest roofing trade body, NFRC. However, a…
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The facility reopened its doors at the start of September as part of Ibstock’s wider programme of phased reopening, which will see the majority of our UK factories operational again…
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The huge HS2 bridge weighing 900 tonnes has been years in the planning but took just 45 minutes to install, the Laing O’Rourke and Murphy joint venture completed a major HS2…
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Association of Brickwork Contractors were enraged by the news by Nationaltrdesmen.co.uk after the Government’s independent advisor floated the idea to let tens of thousands of foreign bricklayers into the county…
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Three sisters set up plant hire firm which is unusual in the construction industry the sisters Hollie, Jade and Ruby Finnegan have secured funding and have started building their fleet…
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Bemus owed creditors £3.6m to its trade creditors the groundworks an civil contractors collapsed after the Middleton based business grew to £38m revenue before running into Covid cash crisis. The…
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Employers in construction are freezing the wages of workers under the industry’s main pay agreement. The move has flabbergasted UNITE union leaders who are accusing employers of being “out of…
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Site mangers wondering how on earth a 500 L pressure washer was dropped from sun a height, the heavy load was dropped from the top floor of John Sisk’s Broad…
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The HS2 project is reporting huge cost pressures from overrunning enabling works and higher building cost estimates for the London terminus at Euston. The £40.3bn first phase of the enabling…
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