A new exhibition area dedicated to plant and machinery for rail construction and maintenance is to be unveiled at Infrarail 2012. The event, at the NEC in Birmingham from 1 to 3 May 2012, will feature companies supplying track construction and maintenance, signalling and communications, electrification and railway civil engineering.

Britain’s safety watchdog is challenging the construction industry to learn from the London 2012 construction project and improve the safety record of one of the most dangerous occupations in Britain.

WorldSkills London 2011 attracted more than 200,000 young people over four days, who watched competitors using professional hand tools and power tool accessories provided by Irwin Tools, one of the main sponsors.

LuckyPDF are four Peckham-based 25-year-olds who are as much curators or TV producers as they are artists. They set up live events, commission performance and video artists, and put the lot together in a format like a surreal TV programme, complete with presenters, graphic interludes and VT packages. Crucially, these events are also disseminated online via their own website and the creative video sharing network Vimeo, and are loudly trumpeted on Twitter and Facebook.

FIRMS in the North East’s construction industry are being offered guidance on how they can secure more public sector work with one of the UK’s leading contractors. London-based construction and infrastructure company Morgan Sindall, which employs around 100 staff at offices in Belmont Business Park, Durham, is hosting a “meet the buyer” event on October 4 in partnership with industry body Constructing Excellence.

It was a familiar tale of woe on London’s bourse, with banks and heavyweight miners leading the benchmark index deep into the red.

But while it has more often than not been the spectre of sovereign debt dragging on the banks, the eurozone was playing second fiddle to America as investors focused on events on the other side of the Atlantic.

This course is intended for people who have to act as temporary works co-ordinator or who oversee temporary works on site. It is also of value to client’s representatives, Resident Engineers etc and to health and safety professionals working in the construction industry

An intensive preparatory course for the ICE Chartered Reviews (For IEng MICE/MICE/AMICE - See ICE Written Test course outline) Testimonials from delegates on previous courses: "The content and style of presentation for both courses were very well 

13 - 14 September, 2011 : The Energy Event is a leading exhibition and conference aimed at managing directors and energy professionals who want to get a grip on their company’s energy use, comply with legislation and procure energy more intelligently.