Entries by Lyn

Government to Simplify SME Planning Rules, Industry Response

  Thousands of homes will be built faster on smaller sites across the country as complex planning rules are streamlined, onerous regulatory burdens eased, and financial firepower is provided to SME builders. The current system makes it far too difficult for smaller builders to get spades in the ground – with a small site of 10 […]

1960’s Tower Block to get Fire Safety Upgrade

Lakeland Court, in Halton Moor, Leeds. | YPN   A fire safety upgrade worth more than £1.2m is set to be carried out on an east Leeds tower block. Leeds City Council is planning to install a new smoke detection and ventilation system at ten-storey Lakeland Court in Halton Moor. New Automatic Opening Vents (AOVs), […]

Petrarch unveils PlanX – a new benchmark in sustainable facade design

A new slimline façade panel from Petrarch combines aesthetics with sustainability.   An innovative slimline cladding panel manufactured in the UK from reconstituted stone has been launched by leading rainscreen solutions supplier Petrarch to help architects and specifiers marry façade aesthetics with sustainability. Petrarch PlanX is a refined, slimline panel pre-cut into sleek, lightweight profiles […]

Funding for Clean Energy

UK communities to receive funding for hosting clean energy infrastructure Under the Plan for Change, the funding will enhance local amenities, transportation, and apprenticeship opportunities. Coastal and rural communities in the UK will receive financial support as part of the government’s new Plan for Change to make Great Britain a clean energy superpower. The proposals […]

HS2 Slides Across M6 in Birmingham

The construction of two parallel viaducts that will carry HS2 trains over the M6 near Birmingham Airport has taken a major step forward, with the first section of structural steelwork now complete. To reduce disruption for motorists, the twin 320-metre-long M6 South viaducts are being assembled to one side and will be slid over the […]

Low Carbon Bricks now available in the UK

  BRICKS made from recycled building material at a facility in East Lothian can now be used in construction projects across the UK.   Kenoteq has developed the K-BRIQ following research from Heriot-Watt University. Made at the company’s facility near North Berwick, it is the world’s first brick made from almost 100 per cent recycled construction waste. […]

Saudi ‘Giga Projects” Draining UK Skills Force

An exodus of talent from Britain’s infrastructure sector to the Middle East is harming the delivery of major projects in the UK, according to the head of a key labour supplier. “Certain skills are missing in every level really when you look at it,” the boss of London-listed Hercules, which specialises in supplying labour to […]