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Epoxy Floor Coatings: Durable Solutions for Commercial Spaces
Publish date: Tue, 10 December 2024
Commercial spaces often face challenges with flooring that fails to withstand the demands of heavy traffic and constant use. Epoxy floor coatings present a robust solution, offering strength up to...
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ANSI Updates for Automatic Doors: Insights from Inspectors
Publish date: Tue, 10 December 2024
If you own or manage a building with automatic doors, you’re likely aware that the ANSI standards cover requirements for their safe operation and required signage. The American Association of...
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Ofgem praises solar scheme for social housing
Council estate residents in Hackney will be able to buy discounted energy from new solar panels on their buildings from next year.
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The year ahead
The industry enters 2025 with a government boasting big housing ambitions. But what could be in store? Suzie Mayes finds outREAD THE FULL ARTICLE
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Cavanna Homes gets funding boost from Lloyds
Publish date: Mon, 09 December 2024
Cavanna Homes, the Westcountry’s leading independent housebuilder, has secured £30m of funding from Lloyds – an increase of 50% on the previous funding arrangement. The deal marks a renewal of...
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Government proposals aim to ensure more applications are considered by officers
Publish date: Mon, 09 December 2024
Deputy prime minister and housing secretary Angela Rayner has set out government plans to ‘deliver a sweeping overhaul of the creaking local planning committee system’.
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Mining Remediation Authority CEO on its rebrand subsidence and coal tip safety
Publish date: Tue, 10 December 2024
The Coal Authority has changed its name to the Mining Remediation Authority. Its CEO recently spoke to GE about her priorities for the organisation.The postMining Remediation Authority CEO on its...
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Debunking Construction Myths Series: Workers Are Unhappy
Publish date: Tue, 10 December 2024
We are currently in the middle of a series of blogs, where we have looked at some of the common assumptions in the construction industry including if it is a technology laggard and if the digital...
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Construction Jobs by the Numbers
Publish date: Tue, 10 December 2024
As we head into a new year, we must first take a pulse of where we have been so we hopefully can identify where we are going. This will be key for the construction industry, as we ramp up the...
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LGA issues warning about office-to-residential conversions
Publish date: Tue, 10 December 2024
Analysis by the Local Government Association (LGA) has suggested that 23,990 affordable houses were 'lost' in the last 10 years due to office-to-residential conversions under permitted development...
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Government told to get tough on thieves who break into tradespeople’s vehicles
Publish date: Tue, 10 December 2024
The CEO of a national construction charity is demanding the government gets tough on criminals who target tradespeople’s vehicles – often stealing thousands of pounds worth of tools and equipment...
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November 2024 economic roundup
Publish date: Tue, 10 December 2024
Construction Dive tracks recent key industry data including backlog, planning activity, input costs, starts, job openings and spending.
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Turner cost index rises 3.6% YOY
Publish date: Tue, 10 December 2024
The benchmark compiled by the largest contractor in the country contrasted with the government’s PPI data for nonresidential construction.
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Healthcare construction a key part of US infrastructure
Publish date: Tue, 10 December 2024
Contractors that are prepared to deliver medical facilities will be in high demand in 2025, writes a construction consultant.
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Recovered appeal: Government finds need for green belt data centre
Publish date: Tue, 10 December 2024
A 65,000-square-metre data centre in the Buckinghamshire green belt is justified by the national need for such facilities, housing minister Matthew Pennycook has ruled.
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ISS joins Biffa and Community Shop to get people into work
Publish date: Tue, 10 December 2024
Workplace experience and FM business ISS has teamed with waste management firm Biffa and social enterprise Community Shop to help its first group of members back into employment in Liverpool.
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Lessons from new ways of delivering children’s social care
Publish date: Tue, 10 December 2024
As the government looks to build on the Stable Homes Built on Love pathfinders in its reforms, LGC finds out what they have been up to. Eighteen months into a programme to test reforms to...
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Northern Ireland Executive endorses pledge for 100000 homes by 2039
Publish date: Tue, 10 December 2024
Stormont says one-third will be social housing
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CN Specialists Index 2024: top 10 envelope contractors
Publish date: Tue, 10 December 2024
When glazer Alucraft Systems filed for administration in April, a company statement cited “an extremely challenging trading environment”. Then in August, Skonto Plan UK went into administration...
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CN Specialists Index 2024: top 10 ground engineering contractors
Publish date: Tue, 10 December 2024
This year’s index sees a welcome expansion in turnover and profit for the 10 largest ground engineering firms – but postponed projects look set to send the sector’s next round of results in...
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AIQ: A Way to Profit from the AI-Driven Construction Boom
Publish date: Tue, 10 December 2024
… electronic and electrical manufacturingconstruction, thanks to the … ALL other categories ofindustrial construction. Data center investment … attracts more cash thanconstructionof...
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Why civils companies choose Re-flow: real-time reporting cuts wasted time
Publish date: Tue, 10 December 2024
When R&C Williams, a well-established public and civil engineering company based in Birmingham, started looking at digital field management solutions, they were hoping to address a few key issues in...
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WNC building codes stopping displaced families from moving into homes
Publish date: Tue, 10 December 2024
… North Carolina says statebuilding codesare keeping them from … moving into a recentlyconstructedhome in Transylvania County. … North Carolina says statebuilding codesare keeping them from...
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DCN: ‘Local democracy should remain the bedrock of the planning system’
Publish date: Tue, 10 December 2024
The government’s proposals to give planning officers more authority and reduce committee involvement could streamline processes but risk reducing community input in decisions, experts have told...
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Vivid acquires 371 homes from L&Q
Publish date: Tue, 10 December 2024
Fast-growing Hampshire-based provider acquires stock from housing association giant LQ
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Bidding set to begin for 140MW data centre build
Publish date: Tue, 10 December 2024
A New Year tendering battle is set to begin for a data centre job in Buckinghamshire. Contractors will be invited to bid to build the 140MW data centre after the government overturned a planning...
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Firm and contractor fined for Derbyshire gas accident
Publish date: Tue, 10 December 2024
A skip-hire firm and its contractor have been fined almost £30,000 after a gas explosion led to the evacuation of a Derbyshire village. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said Elliott Kirk, a...
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Helping people stay on the move: B.C. highway contractors honoured with awards
Publish date: Tue, 10 December 2024
VICTORIA — Contractors that build and maintain British Columbia’s transportation infrastructure where honoured recently through the B.C. Transportation Contractor of the Year awards, which...
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Supreme Court set to hear landmark ‘two strikes’ late payment case
Publish date: Tue, 10 December 2024
A court case that could create a ‘two strikes and you’re out’ precedent on late payments is set to head to the Supreme Court. In August, a Court of Appeal judge ruled that contractor Providence...
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Construction Drone Market is expected to grow at high CAGR during the forecast period 2021-2032
Publish date: Tue, 10 December 2024
Rise in demand for construction drones can be attributed to rapid development of the construction industry across the globe WILMINGTON, DE, UNITED STATES, December 10, 2024...
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