Leading construction and infrastructure player Aggregate Industries has achieved international recognition from the Concrete Sustainability Council (CSC), receiving a Gold Certificate, the highest standard for supply of aggregates, at Glensanda, the largest granite quarry in Europe, making the company the first in the UK to receive the global certification. The Continue Reading
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NEW LETTINGS FOR LIVERPOOL WATERS AT KING EDWARD TRIANGLE
Peel L&P’s Liverpool Waters has welcomed two new customers to its King Edward Triangle site, demonstrating the versatility of the space available with recreational axe-throwing business, Hatchet Harry’s, and car hire service, Easirent recently moving into the city centre location. For Hatchet Harry’s, this space marks the organisation’s third venue Continue Reading
Aggregate Industries Achieves International Certification in Health and Safety
13 July 2020 Leading construction and infrastructure player Aggregate Industries has achieved international certification from the British Standards Institution (BSI), receiving the ISO 45001 Standard in Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems, after demonstrating its company-wide commitment to proactively working to protect its employees. ISO 45001 is the world’s first Continue Reading
Collaboration is key in successful early completion of M23 project
-laying a record breaking 52,000 tonnes on a smart motorway in one month- Through a number of evening and weekend closures and successful collaborative arrangements, leading construction and infrastructure player, Aggregate Industries completed the surfacing works ahead of schedule on the M23 smart motorway project, laying 52,000 tonnes of asphalt Continue Reading
IR35 – Are You In or Out?
Updated 4th July, 2020 One of the most common concerns for contractors in the UK is their employment status and this is monitored by HMRC using the IR35 calculator. Whether a contractor falls inside or outside IR35 legislation will have a major impact on how much tax they pay. Complications Continue Reading
BIMcollab Introduces Integration with Trimble Connect
EINDHOVEN 29-06-2020 – As BIMcollab continues to expand their ecosystem through integrations with the industry’s most popular BIM tools, recent development efforts have been focused primarily on partnering with CDE platforms. The latest edition is the integration between BIMcollab and Trimble Connect. Erik Pijnenburg, CEO – BIMcollab: “Our goal is to integrate Continue Reading
Hygienic materials guide published to support specifiers
A series of guides for specifiers have been launched to explain the hygienic properties of materials that can be used for surfaces and protective screens. Bringing together a suite of options, they are organised into categories based on their performance and potential uses. They were developed by materials supplier James Continue Reading
Kapex Construction promotes first ever employee
Kapex Construction has promoted its first ever employee, Paul Armstrong, to the position of Contracts Manager at Kapex Construction, following a successful first three years of trading, Newcastle-based The Morton Group is a wholly-owned family business, established in December 2016 by Group CEO Gary Morton and father Brian, following Gary’s Continue Reading
Aarsleff Ground Engineering awarded the Soil Nails contract for new school development in Hexham
On behalf of main contractor Galliford Try, Thompsons of Prudhoe has awarded Aarsleff Ground Engineering the contract to design, supply and install a retaining structure approx. 150m long for part of the development of Queen Elizabeth School on Whetstone Bridge Road in Hexham. The school complex currently consists of a Continue Reading
Top Winchester Plumbing Tips For Construction Sites
Construction sites throughout Winchester (Hampshire) need to be created and maintained with much security. One failure can result in severe problems or even perhaps irreversible damage. For people working around the construction sites, every day can be a new myriad of possibilities that’s a mix of rewarding and frustrating feelings. Continue Reading