THE SUSTAINABLE and Traditional Buildings Fair is set to take place on Saturday 11 May 2024 at the Tywi Centre, Dinefwr Farm in Llandeilo. From 10am, experts, suppliers, and contractors will provide essential insights and solutions for making homes more sustainable. In Wales, where 1.4 million homes consume 27% of all energy, the demand for
‘MUST DO BETTER’ seems to be the overall verdict on the construction industry’s progress on building safety and culture change, according to the Industry Safety Steering Group (ISSG) chaired by Dame Judith Hackitt. The ISSG’s fourth report on built environment culture change progress, published today, says the construction industry and broader actors in the system
A NEW Residential Retrofit Standard launched by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) will help its members to advise customers on retrofit options in UK homes. Following an eight-week consultation period, the new standard was developed by a team of experts in response to a demand for high quality, residential retrofit advice. It will
A CONSTRUCTION firm in Kent was fined after a sub-contractor fell from a scaffold and died from his injuries. Mark Tolley, 51, fell 1.8 metres through an unguarded opening in a scaffold on 5 July 2017 while installing vertical hanging tiles on one of six new houses on Smarden Road in Headcorn, Kent. He sustained
A LEDBURY man’s garden has been restored to its former glory by a building charity after it was left overgrown and out of control as he battled a brain tumour. More than a dozen volunteers from construction charity Band of Builders (BoB) unveiled the garden to Glenn Ward at the weekend after braving “every type
BUILDING PRODUCTS manufacturer Forterra has recently installed almost 7,000 solar panels at its new state-of-the-art factory in Desford, Leicestershire. With a projected energy output of 2.6 megawatts, the solar panels will generate approximately 16% of the factory’s energy demands at full capacity. Combining cost-efficiency with sustainability, the solar panels are predicted to reduce the Desford
JCT HAS ANNOUNCED the release of its 2024 Edition of Contracts, which will launch with the Design and Build family of contracts on 17 April 2024. An online launch event will give an overview of JCT 2024 and explain the main changes and features of the new edition. The Design and Build 2024 Contracts will be
MARSHALLS PLC, parent company of roof tile manufacturer Marley, logs an overall 7% reduction in revenue and 24% drop in EBITDA for the year ended 31 December 2023. This was offset in the firm’s accounts by its acquired division, Marley. Marley Roofing Products sells pitched roofing products, accessories and roof integrated solar. The Roofing Products division
INTERNATIONAL commercial flat roofing manufacturer Bauder is planning to create a distribution hub at a Freeport East site in Stowmarket. An application on behalf of the commercial roof systems company – which has a site in Landseer Road, Ipswich – has been lodged with Mid Suffolk District Council. The plans submitted are for a 44,000
OPEN DOORS 2024 kicks off in style today with the first visitors going behind the scenes of construction sites and workplaces across Great Britain to see the wide range of career opportunities available in the industry. There are 220 events taking place until Saturday, from high profile construction projects to manufacturing facilities, offices and training centres,
