The development is Bam’s second project for Richard Care Villages, which is owned by Bupa. It will create 48 flats, 46 suites and a 60-bed care home providing nursing and dementia care. In addition, there will be a wellness spa, lounges, library, terrace café, restaurant and garden bar. Demolition work
©Flickr Jacob Zuma, president of South Africa, and Atul Gupta, one of the Gupta brothers, at an event in 2012 South Africa’s Gupta family, the controversial business dynasty linked to President Jacob Zuma, will sell their shareholdings in all their businesses in the country by the end of the year,
1 August 2016 | Herpreet Kaur Grewal Servest Group has appointed Jason Etherington as to the role of managing director of its Ministry of Defence (MOD) Division. The role will see Etherington manage and develop contracts as part of Servest’s MOD account; share his experience with the wider Servest team
The UK has made a historic decision to leave the European Union, a move that sharply contrasts with the view held by the majority of the country’s property industry before the vote. EG is live blogging on our news site editorial.property.rbi.web.ds/news/brexit The post LIVE: Property reeling from Brexit vote appeared
EDF Energy’s Heysham 2 nuclear plant in Lancashire has ended a record run of non-stop operation at 940 days, after one of its reactors was taken offline for planned maintenance on Friday. The record for continuous operation of a nuclear reactor had been held for 22 years
Category: Construction Industry Today | Subscribe to Construction Industry Today Feed Published Fri, Apr 15th 2016 BD Living has selected Paragon’s routing and scheduling software to better manage the delivery and fitting of built-in and freestanding furniture and accessories Posted via Industry Today. Follow us on Twitter @IndustryToday BD
The Scottish Housebuilder of the Year 2017 has revealed that they will be working with St Andrews First Aid, Good Egg Safety and the regional Community Safety Teams in order to implement a new Child Safety at Home Campaign for Scotland. The winners of the Housebuilder of the Year award
Due to the horrendous event at Grenfell Tower this year, the London Fire Brigade have publicly criticised the apparent overall lack of competence show by building designers as well as construction companies. In order to make sure that eh people designing and constructing out buildings have the knowledge to ensure
Construction work is underway for a new community centre located on Tarling Road, East Finchley. This community centre will be used to house a group who have recently been made homeless by a fire. The new community centre will be the new base for the Somali Bravanese Welfare Association, who
Balfour Beatty, the British multinational infrastructure group has been selected as the main contractor for a project which is considered to be the largest capital developments to be undertaken in the UK by a university. The construction company has a wealth of experience working on projects in the education sector,
The development is Bam’s second project for Richard Care Villages, which is owned by Bupa. It will create 48 flats, 46 suites and a 60-bed care home providing nursing and dementia care. In addition, there will be a wellness spa, lounges, library, terrace café, restaurant and garden bar. Demolition work on the former BBC Residential Training Centre has involved asbestos clearance and removing roof tiles to allow bats to escape. Groundworks are being undertaken on a 26,000 cu m cut excavation for the basement. Construction is expected to be completed in September 2018. Bam Construction regional director in the Midlands Rod Stiles said: “This is a significant high-quality private development in a specialist sector. We are very appreciative that the client has put its trust in us again. “Together with our major office scheme at Three Snowhill, and major education schemes for universities and the EFA in Birmingham, Coventry and Solihull, we have a diverse portfolio based on good partnerships, modern approaches and high-quality workmanship.” Richmond Care Villages managing director Paddy Brice said: “We are pleased to be working with Bam again on this prestigious new retirement village for Worcestershire. “Richmond Wood Norton is an extremely complex development with a main village care centre of 100,000 sq ft, but I am confident that Bam has the expertise to deliver a fantastic building for us to provide the very best in retirement living and care.” Source link
©Flickr Jacob Zuma, president of South Africa, and Atul Gupta, one of the Gupta brothers, at an event in 2012 South Africa’s Gupta family, the controversial business dynasty linked to President Jacob Zuma, will sell their shareholdings in all their businesses in the country by the end of the year, the family said in a statement on Saturday. The move will cut the family’s ties to a multibillion-rand mining-to-media empire which according to critics benefited from a string of politically-connected deals. More On this topic IN Mining “As a family, we now believe that the time is right for us to exit our shareholding of the South African businesses which we believe will benefit our existing employees, and lead to further growth in the businesses,” the Guptas said in the statement. “We believe that this decision is in the best interests of our business, the country and our colleagues,” added the family, which moved to South Africa from the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh over two decades ago. The exit will affect the Guptas’ interests in Oakbay Investments, a holding vehicle for their empire, which includes Tegeta, a mining company in which Mr Zuma’s son Duduzane Zuma was a major shareholder. Tegeta this year acquired Optimum, the lossmaking coal mine placed into business rescue by Glencore after a dispute with the state power utility, Eskom, over supply contracts. The deal closed in April. The Guptas said that they were “already in discussions with several prospective international buyers” for their shareholdings. The family has been dogged by allegations — which have never been proven — that they used relationships with Mr Zuma and his relatives to obtain valuable state contracts for their businesses and influence the appointments of government ministers. Mr Zuma and the Guptas have always denied the allegations against them. Citing a “sustained political attack” on them, the Guptas withdrew from executive roles at their companies in April, alongside Duduzane Zuma who said he would exit investments. In the same month KPMG, Oakbay’s auditor, and several of South Africa’s banks moved to end relationships with the company. Mcebisi Jonas, South Africa’s deputy finance minister, said in March that members of the family had offered him the Treasury’s top job before a crisis last December when Mr Zuma fired Nhlanhla Nene as finance minister and replaced him with an unknown backbencher, causing turmoil in the rand. This week the Guptas were also linked in South Africa’s media to a political storm surrounding the current finance minister, Pravin Gordhan. Police are investigating an alleged spying operation at South Africa’s tax office when Mr Gordhan was in charge. On Friday South Africa’s News24 reported that Mr Gordhan told his staff that the Guptas were attacking him. Amid a sharp sell-off in the rand this week on news of the investigation, Mr Gordhan did not comply with a police request for him to appear at the headquarters of the Hawks, an investigative agency of the police, to receive a warning statement regarding his rights. In an earlier statement on Saturday the Guptas commented on the reports regarding Mr Gordhan, registering their “deep disappointment” and adding that they had “repeatedly pointed out that our family has been a victim of a political campaign against it.” Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2016. You may share using our article tools. Please don’t cut articles from FT.com and redistribute by email or post to the web. Source link
1 August 2016 | Herpreet Kaur Grewal Servest Group has appointed Jason Etherington as to the role of managing director of its Ministry of Defence (MOD) Division. The role will see Etherington manage and develop contracts as part of Servest’s MOD account; share his experience with the wider Servest team to improve the working relationship; and identify future opportunities. Etherington has served the British Army for the last 25 years in Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. His professional background includes commanding the UK’s Apache helicopter force and working as senior operations officer and East Africa lead for the Joint Force HQ, the MOD’s deployable crisis headquarters. Etherington has also worked closely with FM teams, particularly in his most recent role as Station Commander at Wattisham. Servest created the role specifically for Etherington, “to grow the existing contract portfolio with the MOD and create a bigger footprint in the armed forces arena”. Source link
The UK has made a historic decision to leave the European Union, a move that sharply contrasts with the view held by the majority of the country’s property industry before the vote. EG is live blogging on our news site editorial.property.rbi.web.ds/news/brexit The post LIVE: Property reeling from Brexit vote appeared first on Estates Gazette.com. Source link
EDF Energy’s Heysham 2 nuclear plant in Lancashire has ended a record run of non-stop operation at 940 days, after one of its reactors was taken offline for planned maintenance on Friday. The record for continuous operation of a nuclear reactor had been held for 22 years by the Pickering 7 reactor in Ontario in Canada. Heysham 2 began its run on 18 February 2014 and passed the benchmark of 894 days set by Pickering 7 in August this year. The plant features two advanced gas-cooled reactors with a combined generating capacity of 1.23GW. The maintenance programme will see replacement of two large gas circulators used to cool the reactor which has been shut down. The other reactor is scheduled to continue running as normal during the period. The Torness nuclear power station in East Lothian, which is also operated by EDF Energy, is expected to break the record again in February 2017. Provided there are no unplanned shutdowns, it will reach 996 days of continuous operation when it is taken out of service for maintenance in April 2017. In February the firm announced it was extending the life of four of its nuclear plants, including Heysham 2 and Torness. Heysham 1 and Hartlepool had their closure dates pushed back by five years until 2024. Heysham 2 and Torness are set to close in 2030 – seven years earlier than previously planned. Station director John Munro said: “This excellent performance only happens with lots of planning, investment and total commitment from a very professional team of people here at Heysham 2. “The investment in the plant during the planned maintenance shutdown will support the plant’s lifetime extension – supported by 1,000 skilled people.” Source link
Category: Construction Industry Today | Subscribe to Construction Industry Today Feed Published Fri, Apr 15th 2016 BD Living has selected Paragon’s routing and scheduling software to better manage the delivery and fitting of built-in and freestanding furniture and accessories Posted via Industry Today. Follow us on Twitter @IndustryToday BD Living, the in-house furniture division of Barratt Developments, has selected Paragon’s routing and scheduling software to better manage the delivery and fitting of built-in and freestanding furniture and accessories. The company will use the route optimisation software to plan up to 60 daily deliveries across 400 new-build property developments, as well as schedule installation requirements by its mobile team of more than 30 skilled fitters, in order to reduce mileage, save planning time and increase productivity. BD Living was previously using a manual process to coordinate its transport and fitting operation, but faced with increasing demand for its services and a growing range of different furniture products and accessories taking from 2 hours to a full day to install, the company needed a fresh approach to planning. Following a thorough evaluation of the software, BD Living teamed up with Paragon to adopt a multi-depot solution that would support effective logistics planning from its main depot in Bardon, Leicestershire. The switch to the route optimisation software is expected to simplify and streamline internal procedures for the management of both delivery and installation teams to ensure the required quality of workmanship and customer service. In addition, BD Living is targeting fuel and time savings for the transport fleet, while increasing available fitting capacity by minimising the amount of driving to and between jobs. Richard Peel, Operations Director at BD Living commented: “We are committed to providing furnishing solutions that will fit in with our customers’ homes perfectly by providing the highest standard of design, construction and customer experience. Delivery and installation is an important aspect of our offering, so we needed to ensure we maintain and improve our quality service levels as the company continues to grow. We have worked in partnership with Paragon to implement an effective routing and scheduling solution that will enhance the performance of our operation moving forward.” William Salter, Managing Director of Paragon said: “We work closely with companies such as BD Living to share our transport planning expertise and configure our routing and scheduling software to their precise requirements. Our proven approach is helping fleet and distribution operators of all sizes, across a wide range of industry sectors, to achieve operational efficiencies, boost service levels and make best use of resources.” Source link
The Scottish Housebuilder of the Year 2017 has revealed that they will be working with St Andrews First Aid, Good Egg Safety and the regional Community Safety Teams in order to implement a new Child Safety at Home Campaign for Scotland. The winners of the Housebuilder of the Year award for 2017, Barratt and David Wilson Homes have made the decision to join forces with these safety organisations as a part of a concerted effort to safeguard more Scottish families. The company, together with St Andrews, Good Egg Safety and Community Safety Teams have launched this safety drive after discovering that more than two million UK children under the age of 15 are hospitalised every year because of accidents that have occurred while playing at home. The Sales and Marketing Director of Barratt Homes and David Wilson Homes, Mike Cowie has said that Scottish communities are an essential part of their business, and because of this, the Housebuilder of the Year 2017 works to actively take health and safety expertise into schools in order to pass on their specialist knowledge and good safety practices and help to keep school children safe. A survey has been carried out recently by Play Scotland, which is a charitable organisation that has been funded by the Scottish Government and works to highlight the importance of play for all children. The organisation has released as a part of this survey that parents are experiencing increasing levels of anxiety about traffic, stranger danger and a lack of safe play areas. This anxiety has led to more and more children being kept indoors. With the support of the safety organisations working as partners for Barratt and David Wilson Homes, the property developer is holding a number of free home safety events in their show homes across Scotland. These events have a clear focus on child safety and first aid in the home. There will also be a home safety roadshow that will tour local parent and toddler groups to offer the same information to the parents there. It is hoped that these event will help to educate parents about the basics of child first aid, while also offering support and advice about how to mitigate accidents at home. On offer at these seminars will be a free selection of Good Egg Safety In-Home Safety Guides in the sales offices across Scotland, these pamphlets will be available for parents to take home and use to implement safety features and practices in their own home.
Due to the horrendous event at Grenfell Tower this year, the London Fire Brigade have publicly criticised the apparent overall lack of competence show by building designers as well as construction companies. In order to make sure that eh people designing and constructing out buildings have the knowledge to ensure that the completed product is safe for use, a number of high-ranking figures in the London Fire Brigade have said that training and certification is needed to assure inhabitants and ensure such a terrible event never happens again. It is thought that is there is no action taken, there will be an increase in the number of serious building fires taking place. In order to prevent this, it is vital that the construction industry starts to take fire safety more seriously. This criticism has been submitted by the fire department to Dame Judith Hackitt’s independent review into building regulation and fire safety. BESA has also been working with their members in order to highlight the need for a greater assignment of responsibility as a part of their own submission to the Hackitt Review. The Hackitt Review is an independent review into building regulations and fire safety which has been commissioned after the Grenfell Tower fire tragedy. The review will urgently consider the effectiveness of the current building and fire regulations and how they are connected to compliance and enforcement issues. The review will also consider whether the Government’s large scale cladding system testing programme has found any potential systemic failures. It is the responsibility of the design and construction companies to make sure that buildings are built with the proper fire safety measures. However, it has been considered that the construction industry holds a general lack of competence that could lead to dangerous decisions being made and more lives taken in the future is nothing is done to change this.
Construction work is underway for a new community centre located on Tarling Road, East Finchley. This community centre will be used to house a group who have recently been made homeless by a fire. The new community centre will be the new base for the Somali Bravanese Welfare Association, who saw their previous home destroyed by a fire that happened in 2013. This new Tarling Road Community Hub will replace the Old Barnet community centre and will feature a range of new updated facilities including a large space for learning as well as a large meeting hall and a cafe with seating area. The plans to build the centre have been approved by the planning committee from Barnet Council in March last year. It was thought that around 100 people attended the consultations in order to see what the new community centre would look like. The Mayor of Barnet has said that is treat that work is underway at the site and when completed the area will once again have a community centre. When the project is completed, Tarling Road will hold a fit for purpose new facility that all of the local community groups will be able to make use of. This will be of great benefit to the local community and the feedback to the plans for the site have been positive. The construction work will for the Tarling Road Community Hub will be led by Graham Construction. The Graham group offers a range of services such as construction, investment projects and asset management. The Group has carried out a large number of projects for a range of different sectors, from education, healthcare, community, commercial, residential, leisure, hotels, transport and restoration and heritage. The projects completed by Graham includes the Seaborne Library for the University of Chester, Royston Care Home in Edinburgh and Lews Castle in Stornoway.
Balfour Beatty, the British multinational infrastructure group has been selected as the main contractor for a project which is considered to be the largest capital developments to be undertaken in the UK by a university. The construction company has a wealth of experience working on projects in the education sector, and will be able to put all of the specialist knowledge that has been developed by the company into this milestone project that will combine all of the Manchester University sites into one site. The contract that has been signed by Balfour Beatty has been valued at £287 million. The University of Manchester has have contracted the British company to complete the construction of the new Manchester Engineering Campus Development. This new education facility is expected to take four years and is a part of a wider scheme of works that will take place over the course of approximately 10 years. The new Manchester Engineering Campus Development will offer new premises for the university’s engineering schools. These facilities will include teaching spaces as well as space for research institutes. In order to complete this significant construction project in four years, Balfour Beatty will be looking to make the most of offsite construction solutions. It has been predicted however, that even with the utilisation of offsite production there will still be up to around 1,000 construction and tradespeople on site during the development. As well as using off site manufacturing, the project will use the latest BIM technology in order to ensure that the project is being carried out in the most efficient way possible. It is hoped that when the development is complete, new way of educating the future generation of engineers will be created. The result will hopefully be a world-class estate that will be beneficial to the students as well as the staff and visitors to the campus.