Government’s £525 m Builders Finance Fund
The dark days of 2008 are still being sorted out behind the scenes the work is set to start on nearly 13,000 homes which were stalled by the 2008 housing…
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Worker injured on BAM Nuttall Cardiff station job
A construction worker in his 40s was airlifted the University Hospital of Wales on Tuesday after suffering “crush injuries” and severe blood loss after an accident involving a brick grab….
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Road workers spell bus stop wrong
Well you though you have seen it all then you see this remarkably the spelt “BUS STOP” as “BUP STOP” The mistake which was made over the weekend by Bristol…
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Pulley fall sees a scaffolder get suspended jail term
Pulley fall sees a scaffolder get suspended jail term after it struck a worker on the head form a height of seven meters. 27-year-old Mark Jones, from Darlaston, was installing…
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Construction director fined £2,000 for no hot water on site
Roland Couzens, 67, from Macclesfield, left workers on his site without hot water for three months and was prosecuted by the HSE after it emerged bricklayers, plasterers and a roofer…
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Construction worker dies from fall from pier
A construction worker has died after he has fallen from the fire-damaged Eastbourne Pier . Sussex Police commented: “Emergency services were called shortly after 4pm to reports that a man…
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Chinese steel rebar fails British Standards tests
Chinese steel rebar fails British Standards tests according to a trade body UK Steel and advise a check in procurement in the acquisition of rebar products and they show the…
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Steel falls from height to seriously injure workers
Two workers were left with broken bones but escaped with their lives after being struck by a length of steel that fell from nine floors above them. Ryan Smith, 31,…
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Concrete lorry’s use sock to stop waste
In 2010 Interserve commenced a trial of zero concrete washout on its Drift Water Treatment Works GAC project for South West Water. The proximity of a local watercourse prompted concerns…
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Gang jailed for 8 million tax fraud
A 20-strong gang from the West Midlands, Staffordshire, London and Manchester has been jailed for almost 90 years for stealing more than £8m in a sophisticated construction tax fraud. The…
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