Industry leaders unite with ICE to fund exhibition and learning centre
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Seven leading contractors and consultants have joined forces with the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) to help fund a new state-of-the-art engineering exhibition and learning centre to help inspire the next generation of engineers and demonstrate the diverse career opportunities available to young people.
The exhibition and learning centre, which will open in 2016 at ICE’s London headquarters, forms part of ICE’s ‘Shaping the World’ appeal – an international campaign which brings together the greatest civil engineering minds across the globe to help alleviate the effects of major future challenges. The Shaping the World appeal is funding other projects including a resilience lecture series and a report to be presented to the Hong Kong government exploring low carbon living for a high density environment beyond 2030. Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal is Patron of the appeal.
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BALI’s new website is live and open for business!
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The British Association of Landscape Industries (BALI), the UK’s premier trade body for the landscape industry, has announced that its new website at www.bali.org.uk is now live and open for business. Following an 18 month specification, design and testing period, the new website, which incorporates a complex membership management database, is now the hub of BALI’s operations.
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Essential Living and Conject win innovation and efficiency award
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A leading developer of homes for rent is using cloud-based construction management software which last week won a major award for its innovation and efficiency.
The Common Data Environment (CDE) software, by global provider Conject, manages the time, cost and quality on construction programmes by storing data in the cloud. Essential Living has been using it across a number of developments for rent. It won 'Best of Use of IT in a Construction Project' at the 2015 Construction Computing Awards last week.
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90 years of success for Loughborough steel firm
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amily owned steel firm, Adey Steel are celebrating 90 years in the steel industry with the unveiling of a complete rebrand which serves to successfully pool all its separate companies under one Adey name.
The Loughborough based company which is split between four hardworking and dedicated companies have chosen the rebrand to ensure clients can distinguish between the broad ranges of the specialist services that the steel firm has to offer.
Exploring offsite solutions in the commercial sector
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With many commercial buildings in use 24/7, the demand for rapid and effective delivery of high performance building envelopes is increasing. Offsite construction methods can provide faster, leaner and smarter construction solutions and spreading the word on the latest innovations is critical to greater uptake.
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