SEH French director to lead the National Federation of Builders
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Simon Girling, director of Ipswich-based construction firm SEH French, was sworn in as the national chair of the National Federation of Builders (NFB) at the federation’s annual general meeting yesterday.
The inauguration ceremony took place at Girton College, Cambridge where the previous NFB chair, Simon Carr, managing director of Henry Boot Construction Limited, handed over the chains of office to mark the beginning of the twelve-month term.
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Comparing the Carbon Footprint of Safety Barriers
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There was a time when companies didn’t really have a choice on the type of barrier they implemented in their facility.
If a manager decided there was a need for a barrier – say, for protection, or segregation, or guidance – it usually meant a trip to the local steel fabricators with a pencil drawing, a few measurements and a request for them to ‘knock something up’.
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Construction industry warned of early stage fire risk
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Delays in installing passive fire protection could be putting workers at risk, according to one of the UK’s leading passive fire safety specialists.
The message, from Gunfire Limited, calls for the construction industry to consider fire protection, during the beginning stages of a build.
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Do you engage Self-Employed Tradesmen?
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Nick Pilgrim, Managing Director at EEBS Limited, a leading payroll specialist for the Construction Industry answers questions on how contractors are at risk and how to find a suitable solution.
Self-sealing concrete now proved with recognised test
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A US patent has recently been granted to a new test to prove and measure the self-sealing qualities of concrete mixes. This approval confirms the robustness of the test, therefore establishing a uniform way in which this property can be quantified within any mix of concrete, including those which incorporate speciality admixtures.
The patent was granted for ‘A Method, Apparatus and System for Testing the Self-Sealing Capabilities of a Concrete Sample’ to Kryton International Inc. Kevin Yuers, Vice President at Kryton, devised the test in conjunction with Rishi Gupta, assistant professor of civil engineering at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
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