A SUPPLIER OF SPECIALIST building materials with 40 years’ experience is expanding into the Midlands, investing in a new distribution depot and customer service centre. Southern Sheeting Midlands opened on 30 May in Loughborough’s Wymeswold Business Quarter. It stocks a range of roofing, cladding and decking products for tradespeople and DIYers. Southern Sheeting Midlands’ product
FROM TODAY, 31 May, the UK’s first post-Brexit trade deals with Australia and New Zealand come into effect. As part of the deals, young people (under the age of 35 years old) can work in Australia and New Zealand for up to three years. Australians and New Zealanders will also be able to work in the
National Grid Electricity Transmission has fired the starting gun on what will be one of the biggest tender races this year for the construction industry. The power distributor is planning to shake-up its delivery model for infrastructure in what will be its largest investment programmes in generations. Opting for a collaborative procurement model, The Great
Development manager Sovereign Centros has got the thumbs up for outline plans to transform the St Enoch shopping centre in Glasgow into a landmark mixed-use scheme. Proposals focus on the creation of a transformative city centre living scheme with over 900 homes, shops, leisure facilities, hotel and offices. The masterplan, drawn up by Leslie Jones
Bowmer + Kirkland has been appointed to construct a 500-flat build to rent scheme at Whitehall Riverside in Leeds city centre. The £140m project is being delivered by Glenbrook and backed by Legal & General following last month’s announcement of what is Leeds’ largest build-to-rent funding deal and the pair’s first venture together. Whitehall Riverside
The Taihang Xinyu Art Museum in Henan Province, China, has a uniquely designed sloped roof created by Wang Chong Studio that offers the illusion the building blends into the surrounding terrain.
Pegnato’s PRIN platform connects property managers with certified local roofing contractors, allowing them to obtain bids, schedule jobs, and view intuitive dashboards.
Northstar Clean Technologies Inc., a company focused on the sustainable recovery and reprocessing of asphalt shingles, announced it will begin the next phase of planning for its ‘Empower Calgary’ asphalt shingle reprocessing facility in Alberta, Canada.
Former managing director of Cantillon Paul Cluskey has won his appeal to continue as a director of the demolition contractor after being handed a four-and-a-half-year ban by the Competition and Markets Authority for involvement in cover pricing agreements. Cluskey, 49, signed a ‘company disqualification undertaking’ with the CMA last February, admitting involvement in three cover-bidding
Deputies in Charlotte County, Fla., are investigating the theft of more than $14,000 of roofing material stolen from a condo association at the end of May.
