News Update Britain building for recovery – Official figures showed output growth for the industry of 2.2 per cent in July compared with the previous month, 2 per cent up on the previous year, raising hopes that it will fuel faster expansion of the wider economy between July and SeptemberThe volume of new orders is estimated to have jumped 19.8 per cent [] http://ow.ly/2zXKAkContinue Reading
NFB sees construction growth as the start of a trend – Figures from the Office for National Statistics show that construction output in July 2013 increased by 2.2 per cent compared with the previous month. The NFB welcomes this increase as ‘encouraging’. Posted via Industry Today. Are you into it? Follow us on Twitter @IndustryToday http://ow.ly/2zXg5TContinue Reading
News Update Firm’s high hopes for a towering success – Lancaster-based company and chamber of commerce member Askam Construction has been awarded a £3m-plus contract by the city’s university to refurbish Bowland Tower one of its most distinctive and original buildings. Local suppliers have benefitted from multi-million pound investments by the university in new buildings and services over the last ten years. [] http://ow.ly/2zVQVpContinue Reading
Balustrade Panels in Aluminium – Gooding Aluminium – Balustrade Panels Posted via Industry Today. Are you into it? Follow us on Twitter @IndustryToday http://ow.ly/2zRpWeContinue Reading
News Update How to Expand Your Farm – You may have started your farm off as a small hobby that you wanted to try out for a bit of fun and now realise you actually enjoy it and would like to expand, however there are certain things you need to do and purchase before you can look to create that expansion. Have [] http://ow.ly/2zQjjqContinue Reading
News Update Second phase of Blackpool school delivered – Preston-based Eric Wright Construction, a division of the Eric Wright Group, has delivered the second phase of a redevelopment project to form a combined secondary and primary school at St Mary’s Catholic College in Blackpool. In a bid to modernise the school, a phased demolition and refurbishment of the existing school has taken place – [] http://ow.ly/2zQ07cContinue Reading
News Update HERIOT-WATT UNIVERSITY PRESS RELEASE – Living and working with climate change Building designers need to anticipate rising temperatures due to climate change to avoid homes, workplaces and other buildings going into ‘meltdown’ in the future according to recent research. To support them in this challenge researchers at Heriot-Watt University have developed a diagnostic tool to test the performance of buildings. [] http://ow.ly/2zOb4OContinue Reading
