Croydon’s newest school, Harris Primary Academy Haling Park in South Croydon, has celebrated reaching the completion of the highest part of the building with a traditional ‘topping out’ ceremony.

Croydon is facing the largest proportional rise in school-age young people in the whole of England and the £5million school will help meet this demand by admitting 60 new pupils each year, eventually providing places for 480 children.

No, not the next violent horror flick but a pretty good argument for ensuring that there’s food and drink available on site for when their energy starts to falter. 

With many construction sites too far from shops, or withrestricted access as a result of lengthy security measures the pressure is on the contractor to make good facilities available and keep costlyonsite canteens open during quieter periods. 

Andover College students attending one of the Construction courses at the College (NVQ Level 2) have put their skills into practice working alongside the professionals from Amiri Construction as the finishing touches are put to Sparsholt College’s new Motor Vehicle, Engineering and Agricultural Engineering Workshop. Part of a £3.2 million new build/refurbishment of the College facilities, the workshops are now state-of-the-art in terms of facility and environmental performance.

The NASC has launched its 2014 Safety Report which documents the statistics for scaffolding accidents for all (201) NASC full contracting member companies in 2013, covering some 13,749 operatives (estimated to be around 75% of the UK’s total scaffolding operatives).

BRE Global is launching a new scheme for assessing and certifying businesses as providers of the Government’s BIM Level 2 services. 

Delivered on site, it is designed to help companies provide evidence that they have the policies and procedures required to deliver level 2 BIM in line with the Government's strategy, as well as acting as strong marketing tool. 

The NASC has launched a brand new logo for the expanding ‘Information Member’ section of its membership, designed to differentiate between information only and full member companies.

The new NASC ‘away strip’ logo is predominantly red, with a blue stripe, and incorporates the words ‘NASC Information Membership’ in white lettering. The logo has been created to serve a growing interest from companies wishing to join the NASC as information members, a group which now exceeds 40 businesses. Scaffold contracting organisations are not eligible for NASC information membership.

Ground has been broken as Benenden Hospital’s £45 million redevelopment gets underway.

Representatives from Benenden Hospital and from Willmott Dixon Construction, who won the contract to do the work, put spades into the ground this week, heralding the start of phase one of the two and a half year programme.

As the UK looks to another scorching summer, one expert; Jay Parlane reveals a shortcut to saving on stunning windows.

Predictions for a heat wave have been bandied around recently and temperatures are hotting up. Whilst this is great news for sun worshippers, UV damage is one of the biggest reasons for causing uPVC windows and doors to discolour and fade. As home prices continue to soar, uPVC expert Jay Parlane advised homeowners to consider refurbishing their windows. "Many people don't realise that uPVC actually has a fairly short life span of about 20 years. The sun can damage its appearance, but it's nothing that a re-spray won't fix."

A Cornwall based roofing specialist is undertaking a very unusual contract this week, which will require the closure of one of the UK's busiest motorways.

JR Flat Roofing, based in Redruth, has secured a contract with a longstanding client, Moto Hospitality Ltd, the UK's biggest provider of motorway service areas.

Local Industrial Supplies, the website that is backed by the THS Tools Group, has had a great response from engineers and contractors since it was launched just over three months ago.

The website is backed by a new product catalogue, which features 2,000 branded hand and power tools, with 19 dedicated sections, including Maintenance & Consumables and PPE & Workwear.