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Site report: East Leeds link-up

18 May 18 Two contractors are working alongside each other to complete a vital part of the East Leeds Orbital Road. Margo Cole reports.

Speedy Stewart Milne makes the grade

25 Sep 12 A timber frame structure from Stewart Milne is helping BAM achieve BREEAM Excellent on an £8.5m student accommodation project in Cornwall.

Timber test

25 Sep 12 Cross-laminated timber frames have been used to extend the West London Academy in Northolt, where Kier is main contractor.

Orkney's new flagship

25 Sep 12 A steel frame was specified for the new grammar school in Kirkwall, one of the largest building projects ever undertaken on the Orkney Islands.

Foremans on the fast track

25 Sep 12 When a Reading academy wanted a new sixth form centre built in just six weeks, it chose modular specialist Foremans for the demanding programme.

Oktolok provides timely scaffold solution at National Trust restoration

31 Jan 12 Inside the National Trust's Seaton Delaval Hall in Northumberland, the combination of traditional tube and fitting scaffolding and Oktolok, the modular scaffolding system from Combisafe, has brought visitors face to face with a series of historical statues for the first time in 180 years.

BBES uses offsite M&E prefabrication to deliver Greenwich BSF project

26 Jan 12 Balfour Beatty Engineering Services (BBES) has completed the delivery of a major mechanical and electrical (M&E) scheme at Crown Woods College, in Greenwich, demonstrating the multitude of advantages that offsite prefabrication can bring to enable a more sustainable, safer and efficient way of delivering building services solutions.

Sika concrete repair system provides loving care to George Loveless House

18 Nov 11 Faced with significant structural damage caused by chloride penetration and the subsequent corrosion of the steel reinforcement, The London Borough of Hamlets needed a proven means of repairing the damage and protecting the steel reinforcement of two of its twelve storey residential buildings.

Saint-Gobain and BRE Victorian terrace project highlights skills challenge

16 Nov 11 Saint-Gobain has called for traditional installation techniques to be significantly improved when refurbishing buildings, following research and testing conducted at the Victorian Terrace, the Building Research Establishment’s (BRE’s) £4.5-million flagship refurbishment project.

Megashor towers from RMD Kwikform provide vital crane support for demolition opposite Old Bailey Court

28 Oct 11 RMD Kwikform has supplied heavy-duty Megashor shoring towers to support a tower crane used in demolition works on London’s Old Bailey road.

Yorkon's new haemodialysis unit at Plymouth exceeds Part L by 90%

17 Oct 11 Off-site construction specialist, Yorkon, has handed over a new purpose-built satellite haemodialysis unit for Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust. In independent tests for air permeability, the building exceeds Building Regulations Part L 2010 by 90 per cent without any adaptation to the standard Yorkon building system.

New EA concrete wash water regulations: “Good for both contractors and the environment,” says Siltbuster

12 Oct 11 New guidance by the Environment Agency (EA) on the treatment and disposal of concrete wash water is a welcome step forward in reducing pollution from building sites, according to Dr Richard Coulton of Siltbuster, the leading wastewater solutions provider to the construction industry.

Drainage innovations provide built-in fire and smoke protection

20 Sep 11 Peter Jennings, Technical Director for ACO Building Drainage, looks at how poor planning of drainage systems can contribute directly to the spread of fire in large buildings.

Business owners warned about dangers concerning asbestos in the workplace

20 May 11 Businesses across the South are being warned of the threat that asbestos poses to their organisation.

Carillion scale up the MSite Solution on the Whitechapel project for Crossrail

6 May 11 The enabling works are well under way at the Carillion Whitechapel site, which will facilitate the new Whitechapel station to be built as part of the crossrail project.

igus makes the earth move at the Veltins arena

21 Apr 11 The Veltins Arena in Gelenkirchen, Germany has an extraordinary feature: the pitch can be fully retracted, thanks to special cable carriers and cables designed and supplied by igus.

First-ever power train rebuild for Cat articulated truck completed

17 Sep 10 French company ECT (Enviro " Conseil " Travaux) has recently opted to take advantage of the Caterpillar Certified Power Train (CPT) rebuild service for two of its Cat 740 Ejector articulated trucks. These are the first rebuilds worldwide for articulated trucks. Both were carried out by the French Cat dealer Bergerat Monnoyeur.

Health integral to successful sustainable housing design, says Velux

14 Jul 10 MPs and industry experts are in agreement that, by focussing solely on lowering carbon emissions, many new sustainable homes could inadvertently leave us a legacy of future health problems. The conclusion was drawn at a parliamentary roundtable on the importance of health and wellbeing in sustainable housing design, hosted by VELUX in Westminster earlier this month.

Technal helps to create â??dazzlingâ?? faÃ§ade for iconic new campus building and 2012 Olympic Training Centre

6 Jun 10 Architectural aluminium systems specialist, Technal, has helped to create a highly distinctive and complex faÃ§ade for an innovative new campus building at the University of Sunderland, using three variations of its MX curtain walling system.

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