The ‘current’ cannot be stemmed as the power surge at Mick George Ltd continues, with the construction supplier business more traditionally recognised for its Earthworks and Demolition based contracting services, now engaging within the Mechanical and Electrical design, installation and maintenance industry.

Providing services to the contracting industry for 35 years, Mick George Ltd carry experience and a strong brand reputation in support of the launch.

This August marks an important milestone for NICEIC as it celebrates the 60th anniversary since its first inception.

The UK’s leading voluntary body for electrical contractors was officially incorporated on August 10 1956. The National Inspection Council for Electrical Installation Contracting as it was first known , started out with 3,500 contractors on its roll.

Today, it has more than 19 000 Approved Contractors and an additional 9,000 domestic installers – making it the UK’s largest and most recognised voluntary body within the electrical industry.

The day features input from CISRS and NASC, industry stakeholders and one of the largest principal contractors in the UK. 

There will also be trade stands, demonstrations and attractive offers and incentives.

If you would like to attend please email scockell@safetyaccess.co.uk for a formal invitation.

FTSE 250 housebuilder Redrow has invested further in a scheme to offer 12-month paid work placements to university students seeking a ‘foot in the door’ to the industry. 

Not only does the scheme offer undergraduates the chance to gain vital work experience and build essential knowledge and skills, while earning a salary, it also benefits Redrow by identifying talented future graduates.

Segregating pedestrians from vehicles is a critical tenet of health and safety in the workplace – but the areas where segregation is not possible must be managed with extra care

Wherever pedestrians and workplace traffic combine, there is the potential for accidents and injury.

Four outstanding young roofers from around the United Kingdom will be heading to Poland this coming October to take part in the bi-annual World Championship for Young Roofers, organised by the International Federation of Roofing Contractors (IFD). This year the competition is being hosted by the Polish Roofing Trade Association, PolskieStowarzyszenieDekarzy (PSD).

Through this international competition, the IFD aims to harmonise professional roof training, raise the profile of training to the public and create a common international message to promote the standards of skilled young roofers. The competition itself covers the three major roofing disciplines; Flat, Pitched and Metal and Team GB will be aiming for gold in Flat and Pitched. 

Brett Landscaping, the specialist commercial and domestic paving supplier, has announced that its range of high quality commercial hard landscaping products has now been listed on the National BIM Library, making the company one of the industry’s earliest adopters of BIM (Building Information Modelling) technology.

These BIM objects can be sourced for free through the National BIM Library, an online resource of thousands of building products that have been BIM registered – and this library now includes many of Brett Landscaping’s most popular commercial products.

Mobile Mini, a leading hirer of portable accommodation and secure storage containers, with its global operations based in Arizona and UK headquarters based in Stockton on Tees, has announced an increase in half year revenue to £28.9m, for the period January to June 2016 for its UK business.

Consumers looking to switch to renewable heating can easily see how much they might save, thanks to a new Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) calculator from renewable heating expert Finn Geotherm.

The innovative RHI calculator has been created within Finn Geotherm's new website. To obtain an illustration of the savings and government incentive available for renewable heating, consumers simply need to log onto www.finn-geotherm.co.uk/rhi-calculator and enter details on the premises they wish to heat and its current heating system.

Developing a good company reputation is normally built on providing excellent customer service, and engineers at Bull Products have certainly gone the extra mile this year. The company has calculated that they travelled 636,000 miles in 2015, more than enough to go to the moon and back!

As leaders in fire site safety equipment, Bull Products provides comprehensive servicing of all its equipment supplied to give customers both peace of mind and compliance with all the relevant regulations. A key part of this process is Bull’s automatic servicing schedule, which is there to remind customers when equipment is due for annual servicing.