BaseStone, a tech startup from East London’s Tech City, has launched its web and tablet app to the construction market, following successful trials on Crossrail and High Speed 2 (HS2).

BaseStone aims to solve an industry-wide problem: that of lost data leading to abortive work on construction projects. Large enterprises and SMEs share many drawings and documents throughout the lifecycle of a construction project and BaseStone makes this task simpler.

JS Wright & Co Ltd. is one of the UK’s leading building services providers. Founded in 1890 and based in Birmingham and London, the company specialises in the design and installation of heating, plumbing, ventilation, air conditioning, and drainage solutions. 

Serving a variety of sectors, JS Wright & Co employs about 120 staff and runs multiple projects simultaneously. Like many firms in the building services and construction industry, one area that has proved particularly challenging is verifying the hours worked by individuals on site. 

Ashtead Technology has selected a range of Proceq non-destructive testing (NDT) instruments for inclusion in its rental fleet. The well-established Schmidt Hammer and Equotip 2 Hardness Tester have been popular products at Ashtead Technology for many years, but the addition of three further Proceq instruments means that customers now have access to a comprehensive selection of the latest technologies for the assessment of concrete and metal in the field.

Northcot Brick, one of the UK’s independent brick manufacturers, has launched a new high quality photographic ‘brick selector’ designed to simplify the specification of its range of wirecut, reclaim and handmade facing bricks.

SolarTech Ltd, one of the UK’s leading renewable energy specialists, has installed over 200 solar panels at Northampton Saints Rugby Club, making it one of the most sustainable and energy efficient major sports stadiums in the UK.

MCP Supply, a distributor of the Edgetite is pleased to introduce new paver edging spikes that makes paver edging installations stronger.

The new paver spikes help solve the separation problem that can occur when installing paver edging with common spikes. They were created from firsthand experience when Jeff Goodman, a landscape/hardscape contractor with 25 years of experience, continually encountered this problem while installing paver edging.

Mantracourt Electronics’ miniature load cell and strain gauge amplifier (ICA4S) was chosen as a key component in a project to build a drill that recently extracted a 763m ice core from the Ross Ice Shelf in western Antarctica.  The research from the study will build a better picture of atmospheric greenhouse gases, sea level and temperature change over the last 20,000-40,000 years.

HellermannTyton’s new ‘Q-Series’ open-head cable tie range provides one of the world’s fastest products in its field, says the global cable management specialist.

Housebuilders are now able to benefit from a more efficient, faster onsite air leakage testing service following the announcement of a new partnership between NHBC and leading consultancy and research organisation BSRIA (Building Services Research and Information Association).

From June, NHBC and BSRIA – an organisation with over 50 years’ experience supporting and advising the construction industry, which has carried out 50,000 energy tests across the industry since 2006 - will jointly provide responsive air leakage testing as part of NHBC’s  overall Part L compliance package which includes SAP and EPC’s.

In today’s always-connected world, contractors can use technologies to gather data about fleets. In addition to simply using the tech to give drivers assignments and improve dispatching, systems can also integrate with backoffice applications for project management, billing, and HR (human resources), among others, to improve processes across the entire company.