O'Donovan achieves Mission Zero accreditation
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O’Donovan Waste, a leading waste management company specialising in construction and demolition waste continues to surpass industry standards in terms of compliance and safety. Having achieved multiple accreditations including numerous ISO standards and FORS Gold, the multi award-winning firm has now added the new Mission Zero accreditation after meticulously meeting and surpassing all audit requirements.
Mission Zero is a comprehensive quality standard for the road fleet sector. Based on a full legal compliance audit, Mission Zero incorporates industry best practice and is officially recognised as meeting contractual requirements including TfL Work-Related Road Risk (WRRR) and CLOCS.
CHAS 2013 Limited acquired by Veriforce
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Veriforce, the supply chain risk, and compliance management industry’s fastest-growing solution provider, today announces it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire CHAS 2013 Limited.
CHAS 2013 Limited, previously a wholly-owned subsidiary of the London Borough of Merton, is the UK’s leading provider of risk prevention, compliance and supply chain management services and has built a strong reputation for simplifying health and safety prequalification and raising standards of risk management. It has grown significantly in the last 5 years, responding to increasingly more complex and geographically diverse risk management demands from its customers.
ASFP announces the 2022 Passive Fire Protection Awards finalists
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The Association for Specialist Fire Protection has announced the shortlist for its 2022 Passive Fire Protection Awards, with the winners due to be announced on 25 November at the Association’s Awards Dinner at the Park Regis Hotel in Birmingham. The awards will be presented by special guest speaker Mandy Hickson, a former Royal Air Force pilot who was one of the UK's first female fast jet pilots.
Each award recognises excellence within the passive fire protection industry, at company and individual level. The 2022 event sees the introduction of three brand new awards, for best customer service, best marketing campaign and highest engagement with the ASFP. These new awards aim to improve access and increase diversity.
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Michelmersh wins record seven awards at 2022 Brick Awards
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Michelmersh is thrilled to show its pedigree as Britain’s Brick Specialist with 7 wins and 2 commendations at the 2022 Brick Development Association (BDA) Brick Awards. The 46th Brick Awards highlighted exemplary work across the construction industry with fantastic projects submitted by architects across the country. 13 judges worked together to identify projects that embody celebrated brick architecture, innovation and craftsmanship across 17 categories both locally and internationally.
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Five things you need to know about the Procurement Bill
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Public procurement is set for development, with the new Procurement Bill currently making its way through parliament. The post-Brexit reforms focus on creating a single regime for all public procurement, aiming for more accountability, stimulating supplier resilience, and offering wider socio-economic benefits. Alex Minett, Head of Products and Markets at CHAS, looks at five key factors to understand.
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At the double! York Handmade highly commended at brick oscars
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The York Handmade Brick Company, one of the leading independent brickmakers in the country, has been highly commended in two categories in the prestigious 2022 Brick Awards.
York Handmade, based at Alne, near Easingwold, in North Yorkshire, was singled out for praise in the Individual Housing and the Refurbishment categories.
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What homeowners wish they knew during their home construction
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You probably had your dream house in mind for the longest time, and now that you are ready to take the step in making it happen, you might learn a thing from the experiences of homeowners when they had theirs built. They could help set your expectations and prevent potential problems from happening that you may have yet to anticipate.
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Work smarter, not harder with the new Michelmersh Group website
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Michelmersh Brick Holdings PLC is excited to announce the launch of its fresh, new website. The innovative and inspiring content on offer at mbhplc.co.uk provides an incredibly quick way for anyone to create their own façade design, compare products by colour swatch, download BIM files, read case studies on its award-winning projects or search for information such as technical guidance on projecting brickwork and much more.
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New air sampling offer from industry expert Casella
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It is estimated that every 30 seconds, somewhere in the world, one worker dies as a result of exposure to hazardous substances. Air sampling pumps, once calibrated, can help protect the workforce by quantifying personal exposure and ensuring compliance with regulatory limits. Global workplace hazard monitoring expert, Casella, is offering a free Flow Detective™ Plus calibrator with the purchase of its VAPex Pro or Apex2 Plus/Pro kits to improve air sampling accuracy and traceability and, ultimately, keep more workers safe.
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Simmtronic announce IoT Gateway
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The SPC.2031 IoT Gateway enhances the standard Simmtronic offering of a single building wide SPC.3020 Integrated Processor Unit, by providing an additional “per floor” solution for Smart Building deployments and Data Integration. This allows, for example, the floors’ end user to publish their own status data via MQTT separately from the rest of the building.
Optionally, the SPC.2031 platform can accommodate additional software modules to provide other autonomous functions like automated DALI Emergency Lighting testing, BACnet interfacing, circadian rhythm control, astronomical time programs and other high-level control and monitoring functions. This adds extra resilience to an already capable system.
Garic’s new Eco Estimator
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Garic prides itself on providing sustainable solutions that not only minimise your carbon footprint but also reduce your fuel consumption and save on costs.
As one of the most trusted plant and site welfare equipment providers in the country, their products are regarded as some of the most innovative and eco-efficient on the market today.
On the 1st of November 2022, they unveiled their latest innovation… The Eco Estimator!