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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: […]
CLIMATE – MATERIAL CHANGES
For decades, as anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and corresponding atmospheric carbon concentrations have risen at an alarming rate, scientists have investigated the capacity of forests, soils, and oceans to act as carbon sinks, vast ecological systems that might absorb, store, and offset the enormous release of carbon dioxide associated with the combustion of fossil fuels. […]
Winds of Change
After being relegated to the sea, where we put everything we don’t like, the UK government is reneging on its arrangement to keep the landscape free of giant windmills and is welcoming them back with open arms. While everyone is on board with the idea of onshore wind farms thanks to the cheap electricity they […]
MCALPINE – ZERO EMISSIONS IN FIVE YEARS
Building and civil engineering company, Sir Robert McAlpine, has set a path to achieving net zero carbon emissions within the next five years. The commitment came as the company launched a new sustainability strategy for 2020-2024. McAlpine has also targeted realising year on year increases on social value delivered across its operations. The sustainability strategy […]
BUILD ON FLOOD PLANES? YES BUT…
The UK’s house building target is often blighted by where to build, as a result a lot of recent housing projects have been developed on or very near to potential flood sites. As the evidence of climate change is being demonstrated more by the actual weather than the experts, flooding will become a far greater […]
UNIONS CLASH WITH CONSTRUCTION TRAINING BOARD
Union leaders have warned that a deal to sell a West Norfolk-based construction training operation could see some of its work shifted out of the borough altogether. Unite officials have demanded urgent talks with the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) and West Suffolk College after they announced a deal for the National Construction College (NCC) […]
Future Scottish Construction Skills
Meeting the current and future skills needs of employers was the focus of the first Skills Investment Plan for Scotland’s Construction Sector, published four years ago. In the first of a series of articles highlighting work resulting from the Skills Investment Plan, Emma Dickson of the Construction Scotland Industry Leadership Group offers her perspective on […]
Fresh ideas for Interior Doors in 2020
As a new decade commences, professionals everywhere are seeking fresh inspiration for interiors, whether for commercial spaces or residential living. This desire for innovative performance and trend-setting designs is most notable when it comes to interior doors, whose influence upon a room can have a marked effect on the surrounding décor, lifting and invigorating adjacent […]
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