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Solum – the weight is over, as innovative range is launched

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Solum (Europe) Limited has introduced a range of innovative, aluminium temporary foundations and crane outrigger pads. The modular Solum units are available in a range of sizes, from 600 x 600mm, capable of spreading a 20t SWL to 600 x 1800mm which can be used in a 5-pad arrangement to spread a 100t SWL.

Vibration technology to safeguard buildings

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Researchers at Nottingham Trent University have developed a technology that can detect cracks in buildings which cannot otherwise be seen to help avert emerging structural damage following catastrophic events.

Using the natural frequencies which occur when concrete vibrates, civil engineers at the University’s School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment have devised a way to calculate where unseen cracks appear in concrete to allow for speedier remedial action.

Expert witnesses make the difference in global construction disputes

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The Clyde & Co Global Projects & Construction team today launched their guide to global construction dispute resolution. The guide brings together issues which are generating disputes, both globally and in specific regions which contractors and project stakeholders need to be alive to as they take on work in new markets.

John Morris, global projects & construction group head, said “Across the diverse range of political and legal landscapes in the global infrastructure market, it is pivotal that construction contractors and project stakeholders understand the context in which any dispute over legal, commercial or technical matters will be fought”.

British Sugar TOPSOIL is ‘tops’ with customers

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British Sugar TOPSOIL, the UK’s largest supplier of topsoil to the construction, landscaping and amenity sectors, has been rated ‘Excellent’ or ‘Very Good’ for customer service by 98 per cent of respondents to a recent customer survey. The same percentage was also ‘Very Satisfied’ or ‘Satisfied’ with the company’s general purpose topsoil product, ‘Landscape20’.

CISRS Simian Skill Middle East Overseas Training Scheme centre re-accredited

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Simian Skill’s FZ-LLC CISRS approved Overseas Training Scheme (OSTS) centre in Al Qorz, near Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has gained CISRS accreditation – for the third year running.