UK Construction News

A first-ever for any construction show - 50% of London Build’s conference agenda is represented by female speakers! London Build returns to Olympia London’s Grand Hall for the live expo on the 17th and 18th November.

The Innovation Zone is always a huge draw at construction’s largest event. UK Construction Week takes place from 5-7 October at the NEC in Birmingham and will be the first major live event in construction since the start of the pandemic. It is completely free to attend.

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PASMA training remains safe and widely available as limitations begin to ease across the UK. If lockdown cards have expired, or if new workers are utilising scaffold towers without one, now is the moment to enrol them in a training. Tower safety is more vital than ever as we seek for normality. Nobody wants their employee to end up as a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) statistic.

There are many components involved when it comes to construction management. One of the most important parts of delivering a successful construction project is the logistics. Keeping your construction logistics in line is a vital practice in getting your supplies where they need to be, on time, so that sites are clear and operations are performed swiftly.

One of Northern Ireland’s largest tree management specialists has invested in a lithium battery 26-metre Hinowa spider platform - and its teams are already impressed with its capabilities.

ASFP is delighted to announce the appointment of Steve Davies as its new Chief Executive Officer. Steve joins the ASFP from the Lighting Industry Association (LIA), where he was CEO for over seven years.

With GROHE X, LIXIL EMENA launches an industry-first digital platform for its leading global sanitary brand, GROHE. Visitors to the hub have the opportunity to create their own individual GROHE brand experience thanks to informative and inspirational multimedia content tailored to the needs of its professional business partners and consumers.

We are fortunate to have the award-winning UK Construction Week in October 2021 to look forward to, and with the impressive plans made to roll out the vaccine by the end of the summer to almost the entire population, we can look forward to meeting again in October with confidence.

The new Offsite Show will be organised by Industry Expo, a Media 10 Group company, in partnership with Buildoffsite and will be co-located with UK Construction Week (UKCW), 4 dedicated UK Construction Week Summits and Grand Designs Live.

Gábor Futó, the founder of Futureal and Cordia has funded a new industrial and logistics property development and investment company, HelloParks. The firm will operate as a member of Futureal Group, and is headed by Rudolf Nemes.

Cordia International Zrt., as a latest milestone of its international expansion strategy has acquired UK developer Blackswan. The acquisition allows Blackswan to deliver a GBP 550 million project pipeline across the West Midlands

Rapid Energy, a new privately owned company, enters the UK HVAC hire market. As of today, Rapid Energy’s fleet of boilers are available to hire across the UK.

This report presents an array of innovation and recommendations in an essay series called "Building for renewal: Kickstarting the C19 housing recovery" to kickstart the recovery of housing and get the national economy back on track.

United Capital, an investment company involved in the restructuring of the fragmented UK construction industry, has reported today that its purchase budget has reached £350 million, in revenue figures, as more business owners are seeking an alternative plan in reaction to the global epidemic of Coronavirus.

GROHE, a leading global brand for full bathroom solutions and kitchen fittings, has implemented a next step in taking action to protect its employees across the European manufacturing sites.

Definitely, in the last few years, scaffolding services have become increasingly popular in the construction industry. When we talk about scaffolding, it is primarily a temporary structure that is assembled to support workers in the repair, maintenance and even construction of infrastructure.

As a pioneer of digitalization in the construction industry, the Xella Group will be one of the few building materials manufacturers with its own booth and innovative solutions.

Guardian Glass Europe is pleased to announce that it has attained Bronze level Cradle to Cradle certification for three of its product families – float, coated and laminated glass – manufactured at eight of its European plants.

Skanska’s team working on The Knightsbridge Estate project in London celebrated reaching the highest point of the building with a topping out ceremony on 16 January.