Entries by Lyn

DOMUS VENTILATION LAUNCHES NEW INTERACTIVE WEBSITE

Domus Ventilation, manufacturer of market-leading ventilation systems that save energy and improve indoor air quality, has launched a new company website – domusventilation.co.uk – featuring an innovative interactive ‘show home’ which enables visitors to see product solutions for types of properties and individual rooms. domusventilation.co.uk has been redesigned from the bottom up, with completely new navigation and […]

JOINING FORCES WITH FESTIVE CHEER

Teal Scaffold have joined forces this festive season with charity, HiS Church to provide Christmas donations.The duo collaboratively provided hundreds of advent Christmas to the much-loved, Grange Youth Community Hub. North West based Teal Scaffold were delighted to support the local community they’ve been working in this Christmas through the support of their latest donation. […]

Higher Borrowing Costs Curtail Construction Activity

S&P Global / SIPS UK Construction PMI® Growth slips to a three-month low. Business expectations weakest since May 2020. UK construction companies signalled a renewed slowdown in business activity growth during November, reflecting subdued demand and reduced risk appetite among clients. A number of survey respondents noted that higher borrowing costs and worries about the […]

The Roller Coaster of Construction Jobs

Skills shortages and the cost-of-living crisis have driven salaries up across construction, despite the demand for staff beginning to slow. That’s according to the latest report from the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo). The data, provided by the world’s largest network of job boards, Broadbean Technology, revealed that despite vacancies dropping 6% between January […]

Respiratory illness and buildings

Respiratory illness and buildings: Five design principles for future risk mitigation The spread of a virus like we haven’t seen before changed the way we live and work forever. In the wake of a global crisis, the conversation surrounding health was amplified, making one thing clear: health and wellbeing are the foundation for a quality […]

RIVER CLEAN UP COULD THREATEN SME BUILDERS

More SME builders at risk of folding if forced to pay to clean up England’s rivers Housebuilders have hit out at plans to buy ‘nutrient credits’ for building on protected wildlife sites where pollutants such as nitrogen and phosphorus have leached into rivers. They claim many smaller developers will go out of business when the […]

Attention! The construction industry needs you

It’s no secret that the construction industry is experiencing a severe skills shortage. The business has long been plagued by a scarcity of experienced labour, making meeting deadlines more challenging than ever. Now, according to a new study, more than a third of students have ruled out a future in construction. What’s happening and how […]

Britiain Ousts China from Sizewell Development

On Tuesday, Britain ousted China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN) from construction of its new Sizewell C nuclear power station, which will now be built with the remaining French partner, EDF. In his first foreign policy speech just a day prior, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak warned that the “golden era” of UK-China relations was over, […]

Managing Budgets in Large Scale Projects

Stuart Binnie, associate director at Rund, a specialist surveying and construction consultancy, offers some guidance on how quantity surveyors can help ensure that proposed projects are affordable and offer good value for money. With the markets more tumultuous than ever, managing budgets in large-scale construction projects is all the more critical. What value do quantity […]