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Alcumus ISOQAR, the leading UKAS accredited certification body, has introduced remote auditing

Alcumus ISOQAR, the leading UKAS accredited certification body, has introduced remote auditing. This means that organisations who either have, or are looking to implement, [...]

April 1, 2020

Alcumus ISOQAR, the leading UKAS accredited certification body, has introduced remote auditing

Alcumus ISOQAR, the leading UKAS accredited certification body, has introduced remote auditing. This means that organisations who either have, or are looking to implement, [...]

April 1, 2020

Caterpillar Foundation Commits $8.5 Million to Global COVID-19 Response Efforts

Caterpillar Foundation’s investment to support a variety of efforts in local communities around the world where the needs are greatest As the events surrounding the [...]

March 31, 2020

NMC Group hails record results

NMC Group, the car park construction, refurbishment and maintenance service provider, has reported a record year in its 2019 results. The company, which has its head office [...]

March 30, 2020

Decade of Metrolink drainage support nears final stop

A decade of drainage services delivered by Lanes Group plc during the building of Manchester’s Metrolink tram service is approaching the end of the line. Drainage [...]

March 30, 2020

All options on the table: narrow thinking will not enable the green developments we need

By Matthew Linegar, Director R&D and Product Management, Building Solutions at Stora Enso Developers are being asked to resolve a UK housing policy contradiction. On one [...]

March 30, 2020

Virtual reality training wins water industry innovation award

Drainage and utility specialist Lanes Group plc has won a coveted water industry innovation award for its development of the world’s first virtual reality team training [...]

March 30, 2020

Tests at FPA show sprinklers can take a minute longer to activate

Testing undertaken by fire suppression specialist Plumis, shows that sprinklers can take up to a minute longer than Automist to activate in response to certain fires. In the [...]

March 30, 2020

It’s time to speed up the change to modern construction methods and materials

With a reported 8.4 million people in England affected by the housing shortage, and many years of failure by the construction industry to meet successive governments’ [...]

March 27, 2020

COVID-19 – Water Jetting Association suspends training

The Water Jetting Association has suspended all water jetting training to counter the health threat posed by the COVID-19 virus. Its Ruling Council has based its decision on [...]

March 26, 2020

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