A SOMERSET roofing business has acquired its first permanent headquarters with funding from HSBC UK. Yeovil-based Hodders Roofing has made the move from rented units after securing a £184,000 finance package via HSBC’s newly launched commercial broker scheme. Launched in May 2023, the scheme aims to help customers expand their businesses through asset purchases, capital
THE WALES National Roof Training Group (WNRTG) is moving home to the Roofbase Training Academy in Cardiff from its former training centre in Caerphilly. The WNRTG Group Training Officer, Lesley Hughes, is starting a new position with independent roofing merchant Roofbase as its Training Manager. Lesley will combine her WNRTG role with the new Roofbase position.
SUSSEX-BASED Richard Soan Roofing Services has raised over £55,000 for Teenage Cancer Trust at its annual Race Day event. Managing Director Richard Soan, along with his family, has been supporting the charity for over decade, and on Friday 11 August their annual Race Day event took place at Brighton Racecourse. Organised by Richard, the event
MIDLANDS-BASED roofing fabricator Corrivo Building Products has expanded its product capabilities thanks to its new punch machine. The company can now manufacture perforated and punched flashings for roofing and cladding projects. This comes after Corrivo invested more than £2 million in an additional 10,000 sq ft facility earlier this year, as well as a brand-new
INSPECTIONS are set to be carried out throughout September and October as part of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE)’s campaign to raise awareness of the risks when moving and handling materials on site. Working in construction is a physically demanding job and many construction workers’ health is suffering due to pain in muscles, bones,
Laing O’Rourke has been appointed preferred construction partner on a major new hospital job in Lanarkshire. The current estimate for construction cost alone to replace University Hospital Monklands is £700m but a final figure is yet to be determined. NHS Lanarkshire is looking to deliver Scotland’s first fully digital and net zero carbon hospital through
Henry Boot has completed the sale of its historic head office at Banner Cross Hall in Sheffield. The Grade II listed building has been used by Henry Boot since 1932 but the contractor is relocating to a new head office at the Isaacs Building in Sheffield city centre. Banner Cross Hall has been bought by
Keepmoat Homes and Applebridge Construction will donate a total of £135,000 to the Aire Rivers Trust after polluting Pitty Beck multiple times while building a new housing estate near Bradford. Site owner Keepmoat will donate £100,000 while subcontractor Applebridge will hand over £35,000. An investigation by the Environment Agency found that Pitty Beck was polluted
Kier health, safety and sustainability director Chris Lilley has been promoted to a regional director within the Eastern and Midlands region of the group’s construction business. Over the past two years, Lilley has created a new health, safety and wellbeing strategy and overseen a strong improvement in the Group’s safety performance. He has also played
Morgan Sindall Construction is to design and build a £20m R&D facility in Neath Port Talbot to help steel and metal industries decarbonise. The net zero facility is the brainchild of Neath Port Talbot Council in partnership with Swansea University. To be known as SWITCH – South Wales Industrial Transition from Carbon Hub – Harbourside
