Construction growth will be transferred from home building to infrastructure due to HS2, Hinkley Point and London’s super sewer as reported in Nationaltradesmen. Major construction projects are set to push up…
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Plans have been unveiled for a multibillion-pound construction project to build two tunnels across London. At least part of the funding would be raised through road tolls, with estimates suggesting…
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Thousands of jobs in construction are set to be created after a project to build the world’s largest wind farm was given the go-ahead. Hornsea One will be built off…
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A tower crane collapsed in lower Manhattan causing panic in a nearby building the incident that happened in TriBeca, New York City. The man has now been named as David…
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A company which manufactured and installed windows has been fined £36,000 after carrying out work in the West End of London with no measures to prevent the workers falling eight…
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Housing manager Lewisham Homes has been fined £40,000 and ordered to pay £23,407 prosecution costs for breaking fire safety laws following a fatal fire in a Deptford tower block in…
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A scaffolding company based in Dorset has been fined for safety failings following an incident where an employee fell through a roof light. Weymouth Magistrates’ Court heard how Weller Scaffolding…
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A web of ‘construction and civil engineering’ companies with reported combined sales of over £50 million and assets of £8.4 million, but run solely as instruments of fraud to obtain…
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500 staff are to be made redundant by British Gas as it shuts its cavity wall loft and insulation business. Centrica’s plan to shed 6,000 jobs is an attempt to cut parent…
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Today’s (1 February) rock solid strike action by crane operators at the UK’s largest mobile crane hire firm, Ainscough, has caused a near total shutdown of operations with less than…
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