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The Hon Catherine King MP, Australia’s Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development has visited Newcastle Airport for a tour of the terminal expansion construction site. Her visit marked six months since the A$250m (US$165m) redevelopment project began, with several key construction milestones having been met. The old terminal building has been demolished. On the site […]
The stubbornly high cost of some European building materials despite cheaper energy It’s been a torrid time for Europe’s building materials producers, as construction projects have stalled significantly in the past couple of years. We think the worst will be over for them soon, but that’s not the whole story. Despite lower energy costs, input prices […]
The Situation: The Levelling-up and Regeneration Act (“the Act”) was passed by Parliament and became law on 26 October 2023. The Development: The UK government states that the Act will “speed up the planning system, hold developers to account, cut bureaucracy, and encourage more councils to put in place plans to enable the building of […]
Nearly 8,000 construction companies in ‘critical financial distress’: report Begbies Traynor’s latest Red Flag Alert report spells bad news for the construction industry, with the number of companies in critical financial distress growing by 32.6%. The accounting firm’s report comes on the heels of the administration of Stewart Milne Group and Stewart Milne Homes North […]
Proposed changes to England’s planning framework could see up to 77,000 fewer new homes likely to be built per year for the rest of the decade, slumping to the lowest level since the second world war and leaving the government’s 300,000 new homes a year housebuilding target in tatters. For the fourth consecutive year, the […]
Nottingham-based startup secures investment from Zacua Ventures and Counteract to scale its breakthrough process of mineralising CO2 in concrete for permanent sequestration. 23 January, Nottingham, UK: Concrete4Change (C4C), an advanced materials company that permanently captures and utilises CO2 by mineralising it in concrete, has raised £2.5 million in seed funding. The round was led […]
RINNAI CASE HISTORIES RINNAI CAN LEAD A HORSE TO TEMPERATURE ACCURATE WARM ABLUTION WATER RINNAI CONTINUOUS FLOW WATER HEATERS ARE INSTALLED AT EQUINE SITES ACROSS BRITAIN PROVIDING COMFORTABLE CLEANING CONDITIONS ON OR OFF THE GAS GRID. There is an equine population of over 700,000 in the UK with a small fraction of that […]
Gripple, the Sheffield-based, employee-owned manufacturer of wire joiners and tensioners and suspension solutions for agriculture, construction, solar and infrastructure, is celebrating a bumper year for its charitable fundraising activities, raising over £28,000 for the Create a Dream Foundation. This is in addition to employees raising a total of £25k in their own individual and team […]
Featured Image Credit: 3DPrintedHouse Couple living in 3D printed concrete home for £1,100 a month reveal what it’s like With 3D printing becoming increasingly popular, it seems a logical step that people would try to 3D print a house. One project in the Netherlands has done just, building five houses using the process in 2021, […]
THE OFFICE for Nuclear Regulation has served a series of Enforcement Notices for “shortfalls” in fire safety at the Hinkley Point C construction site relating to contraventions under the requirements of Article 22 of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. Pre-planned inspections across three days last November at the Unit 1 HR Building on […]
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