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UK Construction Industry Returns Best Quarter for 2 Years

Product sales volumes for the UK construction industry have shown their best quarter in more than two years according to the Ernst and Young/Construction Products Association Activity Barometer. Boosted by a strong l...

4 Apr 2007

US Brick Industry Honours Excellence in Environmental Stewardship and Health & Safety

Outstanding programmes in environmental stewardship and employee health and safety were honoured last week by the US Brick Industry Association (BIA) at its annual event in Orlando, Florida. BIA President and CEO, Ri...

4 Apr 2007

New Website to Bring Down Environmental Impacts of Building Launched by Reclamation Specialists

Reclamation specialists BioRegional Reclaimed have launched a new web site to help demolition contractors reclaim materials and fittings and aid developers and DIY enthusiasts to use more reclaimed building materials - r...

4 Apr 2007

All Weather Windows Opens New High Tech Manufacturing Facility

All Weather Windows is excited to be opening their second manufacturing facility that will continue to provide Canadian residents with the versatile, energy efficient, money saving windows and doors with unique designs a...

4 Apr 2007

Martinson-Nicholls Helps Prevent Slips and Falls in Pool Areas

New 3M Safety Walk 3200 Wet Area Matting from Martinson-Nicholls (www.floormat.com) is designed to help provide slip resistant footing in bare foot traffic areas. All vinyl construction provides durability and ease of ca...

4 Apr 2007

Implementation Plan Launched - High Performing Property

The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) has published the implementation plan that will underpin High Performing Property, launched by the Chief Secretary to the Treasury in November 2006. It is the Government's five...

4 Apr 2007

CDM Regulations Come in to Force on Friday 6th April

Following extensive consultation with the construction industry, the new Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007 (CDM 2007) come in to force on Friday 6 April 2007. Making it easier for duty holders to comp...

4 Apr 2007

HSE Publish Consultation Document On How Best To Deal With Societal Risk

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has today, on behalf of Government, published a consultation document, seeking views on how best to deal with societal risk around non-nuclear major hazard sites. Societal risk i...

4 Apr 2007

A UK Report for Communities and Local Government

A study which examined how the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) managed and used science as part of its planning and policy making process, was today published by Sir David King, the Government's Chief Scientif...

4 Apr 2007

Tender for Delivery of Second Phase of Futurebuilders Fund

Government to tender for delivery of second phase of Futurebuilders Fund The Cabinet Office today announced that it will tender for a partner to deliver the second phase of the Futurebuilders Fund - a ground-breaking pro...

4 Apr 2007

Government Official Visits Milton Keynes to see how Growth is Developing

Government Permanent Secretary in the Communities and Local Government, Peter Housden recently visited Milton Keynes to see how growth is developing in the ‘new city’ and in particular those areas where Milton Keynes Par...

4 Apr 2007

New Agreement Signed for Pioneering Milton Keynes Infrastructure Tariff

A new agreement that is expected to raise more that £300m to help pay for the growth of Milton Keynes was signed last week (29 March). The Milton Keynes Infrastructure Tariff is a pioneering legal mechanism to delivery f...

4 Apr 2007

Turn Old Rubbish Into New Houses

That's exactly what civil engineer Dr John Forth in the School of Engineering wants to achieve with the invention of a building block made almost entirely of recycled glass, metal slag, sewage sludge, incinerator ash...

3 Apr 2007

High-Tech Villa Designed to Resist Earthquakes in Greece

A high-tech villa designed to resist earthquakes by ‘self-healing’ cracks in its own walls and monitoring vibrations through an intelligent sensor network will be built on a Greek mountainside. Leeds&rsqu...

3 Apr 2007

New Intelligent Switchplates Introduced by Simmtronic

Simmtronic has introduced to its SPECS3 lighting control system a successor to the popular SPK8 switchplate. The new and enhanced SPK.9 addressable wall mounted switchplate has been developed as an intelligent replacemen...

3 Apr 2007