The 2015 Wales Green Energy Awards finalists have been announced and Baker Consultants has been nominated alongside Newcastle University for a Contribution to Skills & Training award.

The NASC Code of Practice (CoP) product compliance list, documenting compliant scaffolding products currently supplied by audited NASC hire/sale members, has recently been updated. 

The University of Reading has appointed GRAHAM Construction to its major building works framework to support the delivery of its £250m building programme over the next 10 to 15 years.

The £250m capital works programme will primarily focus on the upgrade of facilities on the Whiteknights campus. Plans include a Science Park building and refurbishing the URS building, commonly known as the ‘lego building’, by transforming the interior into an open-plan layout and remodelling the 1970s School of Architecture building which will also include the university’s construction management, art and graphics departments. Construction is due to start in January 2017, with completion in December 2018.

Ben Martin, CEO of bmbal (BM Business Advisory Ltd), has launched the first ever banking benchmarking service for UK business customers. Called Business Banking Measured (BBM), the free online tool identifies where construction and fit out businesses are incurring unnecessary banking costs. It also outlines the steps they can take to eradicate those costs to make thousands of pounds of financial savings. 

A specialist environmental company has won a contract to deliver asbestos management services for a development project to transform Birmingham city centre.

NASC member company apprentices were highly successful in the Construction Industry Training Board NCC Apprentice Awards 2015 - achieving nominations in every round, right across the UK, with multiple winners in the coveted Scaffolding Apprenticeship Year 1 and Year 2 awards and the overall Apprentice of the Year category.

If you've made a profit of £1 then you made more money than Balfour Beatty, Vinci Plc and a number of other main contractors did last year! That was one of the messages delivered to over 100 Specialist Contractors at their exclusive “Win Work-Get Paid-Make Money” Conference in Nottingham this week.

Hard landscaping specialists, The Bituchem Group has created a colourful and decorative surfacing material to brighten up any project or landscaping scheme.

The company has designed its Colourtex material using fully bound natural aggregates in a range of vivid colours to give the same durable qualities as standard tarmac with a long-lasting vibrant finish.

A pioneering North West hose manufacturer is aiming to increase its business flow – with a brand new website.

Richards Hose, of Roman Way, Ribbleton, Preston is world famous for making industrial hoses and couplings for everything from firefighting equipment and water irrigation hoses to lay flat hoses for the shipping, mining and construction industries world-wide - they even make the power hoses for Flyboarding - the booming jet pack taking the world of watersports by storm.

The graduation ceremony marking the achievements of students on the 2015 TSA Surveying Course positions the Survey School as the major supplier of the next generation of qualified personnel.