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Young roofing olympians seek gold at international competition

Four outstanding young roofers from around the United Kingdom will be heading to Poland this coming October to take part in the bi-annual World Championship for Young Roofers, organised by the International Federation of Roofing Contractors (IFD). This year the competition is being hosted by the Polish Roofing Trade Association, PolskieStowarzyszenieDekarzy (PSD).

Through this international competition, the IFD aims to harmonise professional roof training, raise the profile of training to the public and create a common international message to promote the standards of skilled young roofers. The competition itself covers the three major roofing disciplines; Flat, Pitched and Metal and Team GB will be aiming for gold in Flat and Pitched. 

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Innovative Brett Landscaping leads industry with BIM registered products

Brett Landscaping, the specialist commercial and domestic paving supplier, has announced that its range of high quality commercial hard landscaping products has now been listed on the National BIM Library, making the company one of the industry’s earliest adopters of BIM (Building Information Modelling) technology.

These BIM objects can be sourced for free through the National BIM Library, an online resource of thousands of building products that have been BIM registered – and this library now includes many of Brett Landscaping’s most popular commercial products.

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Investment and innovation boosts half year results at Mobile Mini

Mobile Mini, a leading hirer of portable accommodation and secure storage containers, with its global operations based in Arizona and UK headquarters based in Stockton on Tees, has announced an increase in half year revenue to £28.9m, for the period January to June 2016 for its UK business.

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See how much you can save with new RHI calculator from Finn Geotherm

Consumers looking to switch to renewable heating can easily see how much they might save, thanks to a new Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) calculator from renewable heating expert Finn Geotherm.

The innovative RHI calculator has been created within Finn Geotherm's new website. To obtain an illustration of the savings and government incentive available for renewable heating, consumers simply need to log onto www.finn-geotherm.co.uk/rhi-calculator and enter details on the premises they wish to heat and its current heating system.

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Service team travels to the moon and back to support customers

Developing a good company reputation is normally built on providing excellent customer service, and engineers at Bull Products have certainly gone the extra mile this year. The company has calculated that they travelled 636,000 miles in 2015, more than enough to go to the moon and back!

As leaders in fire site safety equipment, Bull Products provides comprehensive servicing of all its equipment supplied to give customers both peace of mind and compliance with all the relevant regulations. A key part of this process is Bull’s automatic servicing schedule, which is there to remind customers when equipment is due for annual servicing.

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