BLOG from Howard Chapman, Editor of Buildingtalk Follow Buildingtalk on Twitter and subscribe the Buildingtalk newsletter Whats new in building – read the latest Buildingtalk Newsletter Hot topics in construction We begin this week by asking is Londons £4.2bn Super Sewer really money well spent or just money down the drain? Mitsubishi Electric HQ energy[…]

GUEST BLOG Steve Durdant-Hollamby, Managing Director, Alumasc Water Management Solutions (AWMS) The Thames Tideway scheme is a proposed 25km (16mi) tunnel running mostly under the River Thames through central London, intended to provide storage and conveyance of combined raw sewage and rainwater discharges that currently overflow into the river. The decision has given rise to[…]

  Jane Embury, commercial director Wrightstyle Limited, a leading UK supplier of integrated steel and aluminium glazing systems and exports worldwide, looks at some notorious prison fires – and the appalling conditions in some facilities today.     Escaping from prison fires When fire breaks out in a highly-populated building, the first priority is to[…]

Homeowners’ survey Rogue customers 4% of those asked classified themselves as ‘rogue customers’ for having paid late, missed appointments or deliberately avoided paying part of their bill. There are many trade complaints about rogue customers, a topic which receives little coverage in comparison to that of rogue traders. Although the survey revealed that 11% of[…]

BLOG from Howard Chapman, Editor of Buildingtalk Follow Buildingtalk on Twitter and subscribe the Buildingtalk newsletter Whats new in building – read the latest Buildingtalk Newsletter CEMEX safer lorry – new Mercedes-Benz Econic truck Safer cycling with new trucks Living in London, I see at first hand the dangers of cycling and the death toll[…]