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Publications update from The Concrete Centre

As always, The Concrete Centre is on-hand to ensure that designing and building in concrete is as straight forward as possible by providing guidance and tools to support you. To this end, we have just updated several of our most popular guides, as well as producing new titles.

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The risks faced by contractors in building contracts

As all contractors will know, building contracts are fraught with risks. The contractor is at risk that he has or has not priced the job properly. Risks in relation to ground conditions usually fall on the contractor.

Delays by circumstances which do not carry an entitlement to an extension of time at all are at the contractor’s risk. Other delays carry an entitlement to an extension of time but not to money in the form of additional preliminaries or loss and expense, such as weather related delays.

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TruTac unveils latest innovations at Multimodal debut

TruTac, one of the UK’s leading logistics software and tachograph analysis providers is exhibiting for the first time at this year’s Multimodal Show, NEC, Birmingham on 10th-12thMay.

With over 20 years’ experience at the forefront of commercial vehicle fleet analysis, TruTac will be presenting its latest range of tachograph hardware, download tools and remote data capture devices for the HGV, PSV and LGV sectors.

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New skills qualification to future-proof modular and portable building sector

The Modular and Portable Building Association (MPBA) has launched a new workplace training course to ensure that future demands for skilled professionals within the sector are exceeded.

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