Undergraduate placements key to securing future talent
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FTSE 250 housebuilder Redrow has invested further in a scheme to offer 12-month paid work placements to university students seeking a ‘foot in the door’ to the industry.
Not only does the scheme offer undergraduates the chance to gain vital work experience and build essential knowledge and skills, while earning a salary, it also benefits Redrow by identifying talented future graduates.
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How to safely manage crossing points in a facility?
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Segregating pedestrians from vehicles is a critical tenet of health and safety in the workplace – but the areas where segregation is not possible must be managed with extra care
Wherever pedestrians and workplace traffic combine, there is the potential for accidents and injury.
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Young roofing olympians seek gold at international competition
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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
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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
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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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