The Considerate Constructors Scheme has appointed Mike Petter as its new Chairman with Angus Kennedy and Albert Ree joining the Board.

Mike Petter, who began his career at Geoffrey Osborne Ltd and was Managing Director for consultancy firm Five Dimensional Management Ltd, became a Scheme Director in July 2012 and Vice Chairman in 2013.

STORY Homes has scooped two prestigious titles at the Local Authority Building Control (LABC) awards ceremony held at the Hilton Hotel in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear.

Barry Spedding won the LABC Warranty Regional Site Manager of the Year award for his work on the Mabel Wood development in Great Clifton, Cumbria.

Four house-building site managers have been named as the national winners in NHBC’s fifth annual Health and Safety Awards, at a ceremony held at the ICC in Birmingham hosted by renowned sportsman Sir Clive Woodward OBE.

The Awards recognise on-site health and safety best practice across four builder-size categories, rewarding site managers who demonstrate exceptional standards of care for the health, safety and wellbeing of their staff and the public. This year’s winners offer clear examples of how best practice can be replicated across the industry.

A proactive approach to developing links with university students on construction-related courses is helping growing property solutions company The GB Group to develop a steady stream of new recruits and greater awareness of careers opportunities in the business for the industry's future talent.

This year, GB has announced a new partnership with the School of Construction Management and Engineering at the University of Reading in a three year commitment to Constructionarium, a bespoke learning facility created and developed for built environment students to gain practical site experience.

The Construction Products Association is pleased to announce that Peter Caplehorn has joined the Association as the new Policy Director and Deputy Chief Executive. 

Work is now underway on a new development of 126 high-quality homes in Middlesbrough.

Story Homes have begun building on the site at Stainsby Hall Farm, Middlesbrough, which will be known as Kingsbrook Wood.

The Aria glove, from the Globus Skytec range, has achieved top marks for EU standard EN 388:2003, providing added reassurance to customers of their protection from mechanical risk. The glove, which has a NFTª nitrile foam palm, recently achieved 25,000 cycles in the EN 388 abrasion resistance test.

The test, by an independent research and testing organisation, was carried out to quantify wearer claims that the gloves simply lasted and lastedÉ.far beyond anything they'd ever used before.

A construction worker from Rochdale is celebrating after achieving one of the highest site-based qualifications in the sector.

David Letts, who works as a site manager with global construction and engineering company Laing O'Rourke, has been awarded Level 6 NVQ in Construction Site Management (Building and Civil Engineering Pathway) after completing a six-month course.

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A £7.5 million construction innovation centre is to be established in Scotland to connect industry and academia. The Construction Scotland innovation centre will provide the 31,000-plus businesses involved in the sector with a one-stop shop for accessing a team of academic experts and public support.

Funded by the Scottish Funding Council, the centre is supported by Scottish Enterprise, Highlands & Islands Enterprise and 11 Scottish universities.