Construction National

New training and webinar to equip industry on new CDM regulations

The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) has launched a new training series for professionals with a responsibility for health and safety.

The training will provide those working in design and management roles in construction the skills and knowledge needed to comply with the incoming 2015 CDM regulations update.  By October this year, it will be a legal requirement for all organisations to use the new regulations, so it is vital that health and safety professionals have the skills they need to be ready for the deadline. The updated regulations come into force on 6 April.

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Gloucester Gateway by SkyGarden Green Solutions

The image for Gloucester Gateway was to build a building, that didn’t look like a building. The new service station on the northbound side of the M5 between J11 and J12 was a leap forward in service station design and engineering The clients, Westmorland Limited, aimed to do something different from the average motorway services. No franchises, no big brands, but instead a sense of where you are - a sense of place; homemade food and farm shops, that work hand in glove with small, artisan producers from the local area and beyond. The idea that has been successfully used at the Tebay services in Cumbria for 40 years. 

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Primary school goes back to nature thanks to Redrow

Ann Edwards C of E Primary School in South Cerney got a real treat this week after a team of Redrow apprentices built them an outdoor classroom in just seven days. 

The classroom, which has been designed to help the school’s pupils learn more about natural habitats, will be opened by the school in September to celebrate its 25th anniversary. 

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Hope supplying concrete for the build of 11 wind turbines

Hope Construction Materials, the UK’s largest independent supplier of construction materials, is supplying 4500m3 of concrete to specialist civil engineering contractor I&H Brown to build 11 wind turbine bases at Crook Hill Wind Farm on the Lancashire Pennine Moors.

The project, which launched in October 2014 and should be complete by the end of July 2015, will secure renewable energy for 25,000 homes near Rochdale in East Lancashire with up to 36MW of electricity in total being generated from the wind farm.

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