A Self employed Gas Safe Registered Heating Engineer has been fined after removing asbestos lagged pipework in a domestic property with no precautions to prevent exposure to asbestos fibres. Karl…
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French contractor Bouygues has signed the UK’s biggest ever building contract to deliver phase three of the Battersea Power Station redevelopment. Despite submitting the highest price bid it beat rival…
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Watch the video filmed by a passer by who was concerned enough to film and send the clip to HSE the scaffolder has been prosecuted after he repeatedly allowed unsafe…
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Many construction projects have been put on hold and according to Barbour ABI the value of projects is up 30% in the past 12 months, new data has revealed, despite a…
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A national interiors fit-out company Newman Scott, previously prosecuted by the health and safety regulator, is calling on their construction colleagues to act now in improving standards and reduce the…
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A man has been jailed for 26 weeks and his grandson fined thousands of pounds for carrying out illegal and dangerous gas work in Doncaster. Michael Atkinson installed a new…
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107 people are confirmed dead in a crane collapse in the holly city of Mecca and a further 200 injured the Grand Mosque known as the Masjid al-Haram when it was…
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A teenage carpenter who fell to his death from unguarded scaffolding family spoke and said that they can “finally grieve in peace” after a building company Roof Top Rooms was…
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Two men who conned £2.6m from the States of Guernsey have been jailed at the Old Bailey in London. John Woodhatch, 58, from Epping, Essex, was sentenced to five years…
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Problems at ISG’s Construction division have been revealed today with a loss of £27.8 m and have seen ISG’s Tonbridge office closed and the London luxury residential operation shut down after…
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