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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

New Forton site adds to developer’s Lancashire promise

A local housing developer is building on its promise to prioritise the engagement of a local supply chain by announcing a recently acquired site which will make way for nine [...]

March 26, 2020

tRIIO Turns to BIM for Albert Court Gas Mains Replacement Project

tRIIO, a joint venture organisation owned by Morrison Utility Services and Skanska UK, has completed major gas mains replacement work on Albert Court, a Grade [...]

March 25, 2020

New homes development to launch in Rolleston-on-Dove

A new 100-home development is set to launch in a Staffordshire village next month. Five-star builder Bellway is building the homes on a 14.7-acre site in Rolleston-on-Dove, [...]

March 25, 2020

Nene Wharf apartments part of a wider regeneration story in Peterborough

Described as England’s fastest growing city by a recent McKinsey report, Peterborough is considered one of the UK’s regeneration hotspots for 2020 with significant [...]

March 24, 2020

Willmott Dixon lands agri-food R&D development in Lincolnshire

Willmott Dixon has secured the role to build the University of Lincoln’s £7m agri-food research and development (R&D) facility at Peppermint Park – part of the South [...]

March 24, 2020

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