Author Archive for: Lyn

Pick Everard senior geo-environmental engineer Ross Goodband unearths the compliance pitfalls to avoid and the pathways to take to ensure soil reuse does not become a recycling afterthought. The reuse and movement of waste soils is one of the most common occurrences on construction sites, as built environment specialists strive to maintain costs, maximise resource […]

The government’s decision to give up mandatory housing targets will harm SME developers and condemn another generation to ‘housing misery’, the National Federation of Builders (NFB) has warned. The trade body said compulsory targets had allowed councils to concentrate on sites that could easily be delivered which had helped local SME builders. It claimed that […]

New homes on the Jurston Farm development at Wellington (Tindle ) Builder considers legal challenge to planning decision which could put jobs at risk and pause new homes The company building 650 homes in Wellington is warning jobs are at risk due to a planning decision which could pause work on the development. CG Fry […]

In the wake of the UK Regions Economic Summit, where ICAEW launched the findings of its Q4 Business Confidence Monitor, one of the event’s Regional Chairs Neil Coupe shares his upbeat take on the economic climate. The biggest fear for business is fear itself, according to Schwing Stetter Finance Director Neil Coupe. “My major concern […]

Strand Hardware has developed leaner assembly, dispatch and warehousing processes – saving hundreds of staff hours each year – in a joint project with a crack team from Warwick University. The project with WMG (Warwick Manufacturing Group) has optimised warehouse layout and movement for the efficient flow of picking, assembly and packing operations across key […]