Since its launch in 2005 Ecobuild has established itself as the biggest event in the world for sustainable design, construction and the built environment. During that time it has roughly doubled in size every year.
The 2010 event will take place at Earls Court from 2-4 March. As usual it will feature a number of innovations: for instance, for the first time it will have a Fringe mounting a number of events peripheral to the main exhibition and conference.
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The list of conference speakers is also innovative, with industry figures joining the debate with politicians, environmental campaigners, scientists and some less predictable personalities – such as the Bishop of Liverpool and impressionist Alastair McGowan.
Ecobuild strives to reflect the preoccupations of the sector it serves – championing the emerging green construction movement at its start, engaging and encouraging debate and discussion and now seeking out and highlighting the continuing opportunities for sustainable construction.
Ecobuild is also the definitive source of information for specifiers across UK construction and beyond: 34,617 visitors attended last year.
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The latest ONS statistics show that construction output fell by over 11% in 2009 – the largest fall the industry has experienced in a single year since the time of the 3day week in 1974. Commenting on these figures, Michael Ankers, Chief Executive of the Construction Products Association said:
‘Today’s figures illustrate the dramatic impact of the recession on the construction industry in which some experts estimate up to half a million jobs have been lost over the last two years. The only thing that has prevented the industry from suffering an even more dramatic downturn has been the continued high level of public spending on construction which grew by 8% in 2009 compared with a collapse of 20% in spending by the private sector.
Environmental consultant Redhills has announced the opening of a new office in Newcastle. The office, which opened on 1 March, has been set up as the centre of the company’s North East operations, to service current contracts and a number of recent new clients.
Dave Hulme uses a harness to carry out maintenance work to the outside of the 158-metre-high tourist attraction, and is giving his support to the Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE’s) Shattered Lives campaign.
Hitachi Construction Machinery (Europe) NV (HCME) has celebrated the shipment of the 25,000th medium Hitachi Zaxis excavator at its factory in Amsterdam. The milestone machine, a ZX140W-3, represents an impressive achievement for the Japanese construction manufacturer and the largest of its European assembly plants
While stiffer fines and punishments start today for organisations found guilty of corporate manslaughter, the leading body for health and safety professionals believes new sentencing guidelines still don’t go far enough.
Demolition work is getting under way on the old shopping precinct at Blenheim Square in St Dials, Cwmbran, south-east Wales, as part of a £7 million regeneration scheme.
The event is a significant milestone in the project to transform the neighbourhood with 53 new high-quality homes for sale, affordable rent and affordable home ownership.
A Greater Manchester company has been fined £24,000 after scaffolding collapsed outside a new gym in Hyde, crushing several cars. Craven Scaffolding Ltd was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) following the incident at the health and fitness centre on Queen Street in Hyde during its construction.
The Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen is set to host a prestigious conference on climate change next month.
A brand new foundation school for 1,350 pupils in Sheffield is to due to open in 2011, after the Government approved its construction in the green belt of the city thanks to the expertise of Leeds planners.
Independent planning consultancy DPP has secured planning permission for the new Forge Valley Community School (FVCS) in the Wood Lane area of Sheffield. Myers Grove and Wisewood Secondary schools are to merge, with the new school situated on the old Myers Grove site
.The reluctance of civil engineers to pick up and run with the Eurocodes could cost British construction companies dearly.
In development over the past 20 years or so, this set of pan-European model building codes developed by the European Committee for Standardisation has progressed slowly resulting in their implementation being met with scepticism.
Hitachi Construction Machinery (Europe) NV (HCME) has celebrated the shipment of the 25,000th medium Hitachi Zaxis excavator at its factory in Amsterdam. The milestone machine, a ZX140W-3, represents an impressive achievement for the Japanese construction manufacturer and the largest of its European assembly plants
Demolition work is getting under way on the old shopping precinct at Blenheim Square in St Dials, Cwmbran, south-east Wales, as part of a £7 million regeneration scheme.