Attack on Hs2 workers by 30 strong mob
Hs2 workers have reportedly been attacked and Thames Valley Police are appealing for anyone who has footage or witnessed the incident after a group harassed HS2 construction site workers in Small…
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Month: March 2021
Gas engineer receives 10 months suspended for false paperwork
A gas engineer was caught out after he produced false paperwork by using his employers gas safe number, he has been sentenced for conducting gas work while unregistered and producing…
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Construction still has 235,000 staff on furlough
Even though construction is reporting a relative boom the construction industry still has 235,000 workers on the governments furlough scheme despite the bounce back. The numbers of construction workers on…
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HS2 costs rise £1.2bn over budget
Hs2 costs are being revised to accommodate a difficult time with Covid and slow starts to main civil’s works and pushing the budget to an estimated £1.2bn. The largest part…
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Bricklayer injured after platform collapsed firms fined £46,000
Two construction companies have been fined after a working platform collapsed injuring the bricklayer working on it the fines total £46,000. The Crown Court at Durham heard how, on 1…
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Plumber receives 26 months suspended for illegal gas work
A plumber who was previously a gas installer has been sentenced after carrying out gas work that was found to be immediately dangerous whilst no longer being gas safe registered….
Read MoreConcrete drainage Cartel fined more than £36m
A Competition Markets Authority investigation found that, from July 2006 to March 2013 Stanton Bonna Concrete, FP McCann, and CPM Group colluded among themselves to fix or coordinate the price of…
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Plant hire company fined after worker killed by high pressure grease
A piling rig and plant hire company, Ruislip Plant Ltd has been fined after a worker was fatally injured whilst undertaking maintenance on a piling rig. Reading Crown Court heard that, on…
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350,000 new construction jobs needed to reach NetZero
The CITB has highlighted the need for 350,000 new roles to keep the government’s commitment to achieving Net Zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 on track these new roles will need to…
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Tradesmen in high demand wages follow in national surge in demand
Construction workers are heavily in demand which means tradesmen jobs, CPCS jobs and management jobs being hard to fill at the moment, this has been made more apparent by the…
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