The Top 5 Footwear for Construction Sites It’s not rocket science that you need to wear appropriate footwear when working on a construction site. Just as man wouldn’t go into space without a spacesuit or a jockey wouldn’t enter a race without a horse, you should never go on a construction site without proper attire.[…]

Hospitals and health centres can be risky environments. Even after years of health and safety regulation and advice, slips, trips and falls are all too common, costing the NHS £133m each year. And it’s not just patients who are taking a fall – more than 1,600 healthcare staff suffered a major injury in 2009/10 because[…]

Howard Chapman, Buildingtalk Editor, writes… We begin with the Buildingtalk review of the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement. This includes links to full reports from Glenigan, FMB and the GGF plus useful comments from right across the industry. Turner & Townsend quipped that ‘after several years of flirting’ the Chancellor has at last fallen in love with[…]

The company’s full-height Motiv cubicles, with a 20mm void at the bottom, a 30mm gap at the top and a Perspex panel for light, were included in the student washrooms. Maxwood also fitted standard-height cubicles in the staff toilets at the £33m school building.

The type of work carried out includes window, door and conservatory installation, although builders are sourcing products from trade counter depots and are not registering on specialist databases, preferring instead to operate by word of mouth referrals. Insight Data has released a database of 20,000 builders, specifying their contact details and area of expertise to[…]