Energy Assets Group has announced that they have recently acquired Dragon Group. Energy assets is a company that offers metering and other related services in the I&C section of the utility market. The company has acquired Dragon Group in order to move forward with carrying out their aim of being
AECOM has announced that they have been appointed to create a technical advisory service for the Priority School Building Programme 2. The global infrastructure service provider was selected for the role by the Education and Skills Funding Agency. The Programme 2 rebuild is part of the Priority School Building Programme,
Irwin Mitchell has announced that they have appointed Adrian Barlow for the position of National Head of Real Estate. The Pinsent Masons’ partner has been appointed to this role within the Law firm where it is planned that he will lead his own team of more than 30 commercial real
Simian Skill Dubai has recently passed the CISRS Annual accreditation audit. The company has completed another year of their training in the UAE throughout the 2016/17 period. Simian Skill has been operating in this area since 2013 and the company have managed to sustain a high standard for their training
Jet Aire, the Leeds based company has recently appointed Simon Lawton to their board as a non-executive chairman. Simon has been working with the drainage contractors since 2014 on a number of different ad hoc projects. Over the course of the past six months, Simon Lawton has been working with
Britcon has announced that they have made three new senior appointments at their offices in Wakefield. The Building and civil engineering business has now increased their Yorkshire base team numbers to 12 with the new appointments. The Wakefield base was first opened in 2014 and over the past 12 months
Dunton Environmental is a remediation firm that is one of the leading companies for design and implementation or ground and water remediation solutions. This remediation is carried out for the purposes of land restoration. The remediation consultants have recently acquired a new one-acre site in Northgate. This site in Northgate,
The consultation on the UK Air Quality Plan has been published. Matthew Pencharz has spoken out after the publishing of the Plan by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, or Defra. The former Deputy Mayor of London, Matthew Pencharz has said that the Government needs to do more
The largest 3D master plan model in the UK has been revealed at Barking Riverside which is one of the largest Brownfield sites in Europe. It is thought that the development will be able to offer 10,800 new homes in the East of London. The 3D printed mater plan was
SSM Holding AB have been expanding their presence in the popular suburb of Spånga. The company has recently acquired a new housing project from Nils Johnny Fastighets AB. The housing development is in Spånga Centrum and has a total floor space of 11,400 square meters. It is thought that SSM
Energy Assets Group has announced that they have recently acquired Dragon Group. Energy assets is a company that offers metering and other related services in the I&C section of the utility market. The company has acquired Dragon Group in order to move forward with carrying out their aim of being a multi-utility network designer, constructor and operator for both the residential, industrial and commercial markets. Dragon Group was started initially by Simon Phipps and Debbie Edgar 15 years ago and the Group manages to generate a revenue that is valued in excess of £14 million. Dragon Group is a Northampton based company that includes Dragon Infrastructure Solutions, or DIS. The Infrastructure company is one of the leading providers of Independent Connections and Utility Infrastructure. DIS mainly focuses on offering their services to the residential new development market; but is does have a reputation for delivering solutions across all market sectors, residential, commercial and industrial. It is thought that the company’s core electricity design and their operational skills will be useful to Energy Assets and will help them boost their portfolio in order to achieve their expansion goal. The acquisition made by Energy Assets Group includes Dragon’s Utility Distribution Networks means that the Energy company will have an iDNO licence to add to their Independent Gas Transporter accreditation. This new licence means that the Asset Group are able to accelerate their offering to the gas and electricity network on a national scale. Dragon is seen as a complimenting company for Energy Asset because of their comparisons in strategies and their shared ideals which strive for operational excellence. DIS will also offer an increased geographic coverage and an improved technical strength. These improvements will mean that Energy Assets will have an improved proposition for both the commercial and industrial sectors across Britain.
AECOM has announced that they have been appointed to create a technical advisory service for the Priority School Building Programme 2. The global infrastructure service provider was selected for the role by the Education and Skills Funding Agency. The Programme 2 rebuild is part of the Priority School Building Programme, a scheme that was created by the government. This Programme will see the government invest £4.4 billion in to rebuilding and refurbishing the school buildings around the country that are classified as being in the very worst condition. While in this role AECOM will be expected to deliver a variety of multidisciplinary services in order to help with the rebuilding and refurbishment of the schools around the UK. The services AECOM will provide to this programme include architecture, quantity surveying, structural engineering as well as Mechanical and Electrical engineering. The infrastructure service firm will also provide the project with a range of procurement advisory services and a range of feasibility services which cover geotechnical, acoustic, building condition, ecology, flood risk assessment and topographical services. To begin with, the contract with AECOM will cover 15 different schools in four different geographical batches: Midlands; Leicestershire; South One, covering Norfolk and Somerset; and South Two, which includes Hertfordshire. Depending on how well the programme works in these areas, and if it is successful, more batches could be added to the Programme throughout the four-year contract. The work on the Priority School Building Programme started immediately and it ids thought that it will continue up until 2020. The second phase of the Building Programme began in 2014 as different local authorities, dioceses, sixth form colleges, academies and academy trusts were first asked to submit their expressions of interest for either an entirely new school site or for one or multiple buildings to receive funding as part of the programme. AECOM’s contract covers those that are being taken forward from this initial selection process and it is thought that the programme will improve the conditions for hundreds of different school children around the country.
Irwin Mitchell has announced that they have appointed Adrian Barlow for the position of National Head of Real Estate. The Pinsent Masons’ partner has been appointed to this role within the Law firm where it is planned that he will lead his own team of more than 30 commercial real estate partners. The Irwin Mitchell role will be based in London where Adrian Barlow will be responsible for his team or more than 30 commercial real estate partners and more than 40 other commercial real estate lawyers. Although Adrian’s role is based in London, these team members will be spread across eight different offices in the UK. Adrian has a good deal of experience in the real estate industry as he managed to successfully lead Pinsent Masons’ Property Group between 2004 and 2016. Adrian’s experience has a client focus as he has worked advising both public and private sector organisations with things such as project strategy and real estate portfolio. Adrian has also given advice to companies about business change management from a legal perspective. As part of his work, Adrian Barlow has offered advice regarding real estate to a number of different household names including businesses that are in the FTSE 100 and foreign companies. Adrian is said to be an excellent leader, and hopefully should flourish in his new role at Irwin Mitchell. His career at Pinsent Masons included being a senior sponsor for the Diversity & Inclusion agenda. Adrian Barlow is also a trustee of the Ouseley Trust where he sits on the main board and finance committee. Adrian’s appointment reflects the company’s ambition to increase their Business Legal Services division. Irwin Mitchell intend to carry out their growth plans through appointing people like Adrian who have good experience and track record in this sector in order to make sure that they can continue to offer a high standard of customer service.
Simian Skill Dubai has recently passed the CISRS Annual accreditation audit. The company has completed another year of their training in the UAE throughout the 2016/17 period. Simian Skill has been operating in this area since 2013 and the company have managed to sustain a high standard for their training delivery as well as maintaining the ethos of quality over quantity while working in a hard commercial environment where clients would rather avoid any forms of formal off site training. Instead their clients prefer short duration in house training or skills testing to make sure that the least amount to time is lost with training. It is thought that the CISRS Overseas Scaffolder Training Scheme is getting a stronger reputation and is receiving an increasing amount of support over the years as more and more companies notice the benefits of setting out their training like the UK standard training programmes. CISRS is the preferred training scheme for a number of different major organisations. Recently, the training centre has completed the training for a number of different blue chip organisations such as the Oil Rig Construction company Lamprell Ltd as well as Carillion and Shell Oil. The training business has also been working with some of the biggest international scaffolding companies. These scaffolding companies that have undergone training with CISRS include Hertel, SGB and Kaefer. Simian Skills has been offering a variety of different qualifications such as Level 1 scaffolder, Basic Scaffold Inspection and Scaffolding Supervisor training. The Skills company has also delivered Level 2 scaffolder courses and are the first in the region to offer CISRS Level 3 Scaffolder courses. Simian skill have aa presence in the CISRS CENTER IN Ogun, Nigeria and it id though that at some point this month the business will be working for the CISRS accreditation for a training centre that located in Chennai, India.
Jet Aire, the Leeds based company has recently appointed Simon Lawton to their board as a non-executive chairman. Simon has been working with the drainage contractors since 2014 on a number of different ad hoc projects. Over the course of the past six months, Simon Lawton has been working with the directors and the senior management team in order to lay foundations for the next stage of the company’s growth. The company is looking to expand their presence in the provision of professional drainage solutions to the company’s commercial, industrial and domestic clients. Simon Lawton has a great track record as a finance director for a number of rapidly expanding entrepreneurial businesses. Most notably, Simon worked for Tribal Group Plc and managed to help the company grow from a start-up company to a business with sales of over £250 million over the course of 10 years. Simon is a founder trustee for the Tribal Group Foundation which works to raise money and fund different health and education projects in Africa, India and Nepal. Simon spent two year working on a variety of different investment projects in Sub-Saharan Africa. These investment projects include a 5-star island tourist resort which is located in the Indian Ocean near Mozambique. In 2013, Simon worked to help co-launched a new start up support services business which is called Benula Capital Limited. This support services company works within the recruitment and HR market and currently holds a number of equity stakes in several different companies around the UK and Internationally. Benula looks to help companies carry out an accelerated growth strategy through strategic financial and development advice for owners and managers. As part of Jet Aire, Simon will be offering the Leeds based drainage contractor advice on the best ways to push the business forward. Jet Aire has been benefitting from a sustained period of growth and plans to extend further over the next five years.
Britcon has announced that they have made three new senior appointments at their offices in Wakefield. The Building and civil engineering business has now increased their Yorkshire base team numbers to 12 with the new appointments. The Wakefield base was first opened in 2014 and over the past 12 months is has doubled its size. The first appointment to Britcon is Brian French, who has joined the company as a senior quantity surveyor. Brian French will be bringing more than 40 years’ experience as part of the building, civil engineering and fit out sectors to his new role where it is thought that he will be taking commercial responsibility for Eddie Stobart and York University initially. Brian has worked for a number of years and ha specific expertise in project cost management for private commercial sectors as well as the local authority and projects for the NHS. The second appointment to the Wakefield base is Tony Mulcrone, who will also be a site manager for the Britcon team. Mulcrone comes from a strong engineering background and it is thought that he will add value as part of the construction projects Britcon are involved in. Tony will be especially valuable when involved with construction projects that contain a great deal of emphasis on sub-structures and external works. The third appointment is Craig Bell, who has been recruited to the Britcon Engineering Services division as the structural steel 3D draftsman. Craig Bell has worked in the past for a number of Yorkshire steel fabrication firms in a number of different roles including draughtsman, buyer and estimator roles. Craig is currently working for Britcon Engineering Services on a Bulk Store project that is located IN King Lynn for ABP. Craig is also working on a project in Lancashire for Rolls Royce. These three appointments have been made to reflect Britcon’s continuous growth in Yorkshire. This growth is important due to major client instructions coming from York University, BASF, Eddie Stobart, Cepac and Bradford City Council. The company has also recently managed to secure a place as part of the contractors framework for Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Trust.
Dunton Environmental is a remediation firm that is one of the leading companies for design and implementation or ground and water remediation solutions. This remediation is carried out for the purposes of land restoration. The remediation consultants have recently acquired a new one-acre site in Northgate. This site in Northgate, Aldridge includes 10,000 sq. ft. of office space that will undergo some refurbishment works. The site also holds storage yards that are used for plants and machinery. Dunton Environmental have applied technologies that are used for the treatment of contaminated soil and water as well as being able to offer expert waste management. The business offers benefits to their clients that are measurable and cost efficient. Johnson Fellows, the chartered surveyors were appointed in order to help Dunton find a site that is suitable and that met the remediation company’s requirements. Johnson Fellows is a commercial property agency that was fist established in 1984. The Chartered Surveyors practice works in a number of specialist departments and acts for a mixture of different clients which include retailers, developers, investors, financiers and occupiers of commercial property. The new site is situated north of Birmingham. Dunton’s specialist knowledge has become increasingly more popular as a reaction to the higher levels of activity within the construction industry. While property transactions can be full of challenges, Johnson Fellows managed to help Dunton Environmental work their way through the process while also allowing Dunton to continue to work on their business. The new site in Northgate will be where Dunton Environmental relocate to in order to accommodate their increasing operations as well as allowing for more growth in the future. It is thought that the Aldridge site is the ideal place for the company to grow and expand. This site should provide Dunton Environmental an appropriate HQ in an excellent location as Dunton continue with their plans for expansion.
The consultation on the UK Air Quality Plan has been published. Matthew Pencharz has spoken out after the publishing of the Plan by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, or Defra. The former Deputy Mayor of London, Matthew Pencharz has said that the Government needs to do more to encourage local authorities in order to introduce and obtain the necessary powers to enforce environmental regulations on areas such as construction sites in order to promote the use of clean technologies following the Government Air Quality Plan that has been released by Defra. The Government Air Quality Plan that has been published appears to be quite unambitious, considering the construction equipment in London accounts for 7% of the emissions which leads to the high NO2 concentrations that are currently at a level which is unacceptable. These high levels of NO2 are high across the country and action needs to be taken in order to improve the air quality. However, the clean technologies that are available in this sector use batteries. These batteries can be used to supply temporary power for construction sites and events. These batteries are available in the marketplace and would lead to a significant reduction of air pollution if adopted more widely. Off Grid Energy is a company that works to save their customers thousands of pounds in fuel costs by using these clean technologies. These procedures could also reduce the pollution and noise created by construction sites. The former deputy Mayor of London has said that it is disappointing that the Defra Air Quality Plan that has been set out by the Government does not set out the reductions that the UK need to have a significant impact on the air pollution. More could be done to promote the utilization of these cleaner energy technologies that will save money as well as reduce emissions. The Air Quality Plan has previously set out regulations to start cleaning up the construction industry however in the newest publication, there was only mention of new machines being brought in to use in 2019, and no reference to any older and more polluting companies.
The largest 3D master plan model in the UK has been revealed at Barking Riverside which is one of the largest Brownfield sites in Europe. It is thought that the development will be able to offer 10,800 new homes in the East of London. The 3D printed mater plan was created by Hobs Studio, the 3D technology specialists. It is said that the model measures 3.6m x 2.6m x 1m and covers more than 1,000 of the buildings at the scale of 1:750. The sheer size of the project is illustrated by the model, however a third of the model’s surface depicts the River Thames. This 3D model of the Brownfield site in Barking was produced over the course of 4 and a half weeks at Hobs Studio which is in Central London. This model was printed using the UK’s largest SLA 3D printer which is an iPro 9000 XL. This printer has a build size of 1500mm x 750mm x 550mm. It is thought that during the development at Barking Riverside, a focus is being placed on investment in future technology in order to create their vision of the future of the development. The model was created using 35 litres of resin and was printed by using a process which is called stereolithography. After all the pieces were printed, the model took two days to build and it will be available for viewing at the new Experience Suite at the Barking Riverside Project office. 3D printing allows model production to happen much faster as well as allowing more accurate and detailed models to be produced. The detail is added to this process through the 3D photogrammetry data that is used. After the printing, the post production of the model is vital, with a specialised team working to add the finishing touches.
SSM Holding AB have been expanding their presence in the popular suburb of Spånga. The company has recently acquired a new housing project from Nils Johnny Fastighets AB. The housing development is in Spånga Centrum and has a total floor space of 11,400 square meters. It is thought that SSM will develop this recently acquired area in to around 250 cooperative apartments. The site was initially purchased for 65 MSEK and it is thought that there will be additional costs in place as a charge for future exploitation. Work of the development is predicted to start in the first quarter of 2020. If building goes to plan it has suggested that occupation of the site will occur in the final quarter of 2021. The properties will be located in Spånga Centrum where there are a lot of different shopping and restaurant options. Spånga also has a lot of different green areas and a mixture of different athletic facilities close by as well as a number of public transport options which include a commuter rail line and busses. The project to build approximately 250 houses will be run solely by SSM. The housing company focuses on one specific customer group when they are creating their properties. The market that is targeted is tomorrow’s urbanites, so SSM work to deliver functional and efficient housing to prospective buyers that are also in good central locations with easy access to public transport. It is thought that the new development in Spånga match the criteria and will be a valuable addition to the company’s portfolio. The company is also carrying out a development in Spånga Torg, and a project that will offer 80 cooperative apartments. It is thought that the apartments of this project will be complete and being filled for the latter part of 2019.