Union Budget 2024-25 Reaction – Amarendu Prakash, Chairman, SAIL. “The government’s retaining the capex for infrastructure on the lines of interim budget reinforces the strong fiscal support for the infrastructure…
An English roofing team got a ‘proper fright’ after finding a live 0.4-inch European scorpion hidden in a box of Brazilian slate tiles.
IKO, the Canadian roofing, waterproofing, and insulation manufacturer, launched a new website for IKO Commercial users with a mobile-friendly design, geotargeting, enhanced navigation and more.
A recent blog post by a writer describing her friend’s experience shopping for a new roof may have an important message for residential roofing contractors on ‘sales’ best practices.
Nearly three quarters of construction firms want to scrap the training levy and the CITB according to a major new survey. The research was conducted by Survation and commissioned by payroll giant Hudson Contract who are embroiled in an on-going legal dispute with the CITB over levy payments. A total of 1,042 companies responded to
Staff at BAM Construction are facing a round of job cuts after the Dutch parent group revealed this morning that Manchester’s delayed Co-op arena job plunged the UK construction business £19.5m into the red in the first six months of the year. Royal BAM Group said it had suffered a ‘substantial loss’ on the project
A company that pioneered a way of building tunnels entirely with robots has gone into administration. HyperTunnel developed the automated construction method at its research facility in the North Hampshire Downs where it unveiled the world’s first entirely robot-constructed underground structure in 2022. It claimed to build tunnels more than 10 times faster and at
Wates Group has agreed a partnership deal with Guildford Borough Council to develop a site in the heart of the Surrey town The £86m Guildford Park Road development will transform a car park site into an urban neighbourhood of 248 homes with 40% affordable housing. The council is committing up to £40m from the Housing
Two billion-dollar roofing companies again occupy the very top of RC’s 2024 Top 100, but the list is not static — this year, six of the top 10 companies moved positions or were bumped off from the previous year. Discover which companies ‘made the cut’ in 2024.
If you’re thinking of a new building project, once you’ve decided what kind of structure you want to build, the next question might be, “What about building codes and permits?” Does a metal building require permits and does it have to follow certain codes to be legal? You bet it does! While building codes and
The post Understanding Metal Building Codes and Permits: What You Need to Know appeared first on Pacific Building Systems.
