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COVID-19: Government must Help Britain’s builders now more than ever

It would probably be easier to list the things that haven’t affected by Coronavirus. This crisis has touched us all, pressing pause on progress overall. Now, small and medium-sized construction building companies need urgent and immediate additional support from the Government to prevent wide-scale insolvencies and job losses, according to industry experts. Buildingspecifier’s Joe Bradbury […]

COVID-19: construction can capitalise in the aftermath

Marcus Taylor, founder of recruitment firm FifthEdge, says, despite panic, the construction industry will keep moving With the COVID-19 outbreak impacting sectors globally, the recruitment industry has taken a major hit as well, leading to much discussion about companies implementing hiring freezes in response to the phenomenon.  Speaking to Construction Week, founder of construction and engineering […]

COVID-19: US CONTRACTORS ARE PROVIDING MODULAR HEALTHCARE

US container-based structure specialist SG Blocks has responded to the coronavirus pandemic by introducing a new product line of units designed to enable safe isolation. SG Blocks, which designs and fabricates container-based structures, has introduced health and safety modules to help support the medical response. It said that potential applications for the container-based product line […]

KEEP CONSTRUCTION IN OPERATION

The Construction Leadership Council (CLC) has urged the prime minister to ensure that all construction sites across the UK are able to remain open as long as possible as the Covid-19 crisis escalates. The CLC and other leading trade bodies CECA, Build UK and the Federation of Master Builders, have jointly written to the prime […]

BUILDINGS – Can Help Fight Corona Virus

In 1974, a young girl with measles went to school in upstate New York. Even though 97 percent of her fellow students had been vaccinated, 28 ended up contracting the disease. The infected students were spread out across 14 classrooms, but the young girl, the index patient, spent time only in her own classroom. The […]

LONDON UNDERGROUND – HOT AIR

The Bunhill 2 Energy Centre has started capturing excess heat from the London Underground to help warm over 1,000 buildings in the UK capital. A perforated red-metal pavilion by Cullinan Studio distinguishes the Bunhill 2 Energy Centre, which occupies the site of the disused City Road tube station that once formed part of the Northern […]

MUSK’S ELECTRIC BET

More than two years after winning an electricity bet, Elon Musk’s resulting Australian solar and wind farm is an almost total success.  The facility powers rural South Australia, whose population density falls between Wyoming and Alaska, the two least dense U.S. states. In 2016, South Australia experienced a near total blackout after “an apocalyptic storm— […]

WOMEN IN BUILDING – Lynsey’s Story

Lynsey Allen, group procurement assistant manager for Inland Homes, explains what it is like to have a career in housebuilding, and why more needs to be done to encourage more women to consider this industry as an exciting career opportunity. Lynsey joined Inland Homes in 2018 and works from their head office in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. […]

UK Designs on Hollywood

Be First have submitted plans to Barking and Dagenham Council’s regeneration organisation to transform a redundant factory site into a UK film study to rival Hollywood. The designs for the Dageham Studios are expected to be considered by the town hall’s planning committee chiefs in July. Cllr Darren Rodwell, leader of the local authority, said: […]