A recent study led by Boston University School of Public Health has found that construction workers are at a higher risk of exposing their families to toxic metals in their homes due to various work and home related factors These factors include not having a work locker or a place to launder their work clothes, which affects the level of toxic metal concentrations that workers track from their worksites into their home. Measures have been known to be put in place to prevent t

The Trinity Islands scheme consists of four towers from 39 to 60 storeys in height, and is expected to cost around £530m to build. More than 4,000 construction jobs would be created over the nine-year construction programme, with 9,400 in supply chains. The Deansgate scheme designed by SimpsonHaugh would create nearly 2,000 flats, varying from one, two and three bedrooms, and underlines growing confidence in the Manchester high-rise flats market. Consultant WSP is supporting

Tough new measures to force industry to pay to remove cladding and protect leaseholders from exorbitant costs have been unveiled by levelling up minister Michael Gove. A raft of fresh amendments proposed to the Building Safety Bill would give government power to block planning permission and building control sign-off on developments, effectively preventing developers from building and selling new homes. The proposals will give legal force to plans to make the industry pay to

December construction output increased by 2.0%, marking the second month of consecutive growth since March 2021, with the new housing sector seeing the strongest growth since records began in 2014 Evidence from both returns received for the Monthly Business Survey for Construction and Allied Trades and the Business Insights and Conditions Survey (BICS) suggested some of the issues in sourcing construction products in the second half of 2021 had continued to ease. Infrastructu

An adult learning centre will be converted into 10 homes for rough sleepers and six more self-contained SoloHaus MMC homes will be installed on-site. The modular homes, courtesy of the Hill Group, and this conversion will mean that 60% of Basildon’s homeless will be able to live in safe homes. Basildon Council’s Planning Committee granted planning permission on Wednesday 26 January for the former ITEC site in Burnt Mills Road, Basildon. ‘Safe, comfortable, sustainable homes’

Building facade specialist Kaicer is understood to have fallen into administration owing an estimated £7m-plus to suppliers and trade contractors. The specialist was not answering calls this morning, and staff and creditors late on Friday said administrators had been called in to run the business after an eleventh rescue deal failed to materialise. A Scottish contractor is understood to have looked at buying or investing in the business, but bosses failed to agree a deal lead

Rob Clay-Parker, director at Leeds-based property developer support provider Consult 44, shares his thoughts on the challenges facing the construction industry in 2022 A notable problem for some time, the recession of 2008-12 led to a mass exodus from the construction industry as skilled workers sought alternative work, took early retirement or moved overseas never to return. This is an issue the UK still hasn’t recovered from; a lack of interest in the construction industry

Work has ground to a halt on three Midas hotel jobs in Devon while subcontractors have walked off another site in Somerset following a payment row. Midas has been building two hotels worth £30m in Torbay for the Fragrance Group . And DevonLive said work had also stopped on an £11m Premier Inn for Torbay Council. The Fragrance Group told the Enquirer: “Over the past three months the Fragrance Group has become increasingly concerned by the very limited progress on our two new P