Seamline from Lindab is a high performance and sustainable standing seam roofing system that offers; an impressively low carbon footprint, minimal thermal movement, resistance to corrosion, is virtually maintenance free and long lasting and at the end of its serviceable life, can be fully recycled.

Seamline is so flexible it can be fixed down to a pitch of only 5.7 degrees, even lower in certain circumstances and can be laid up to 15 meters in one continuous length for rapid completion of the roof.

Piecing together an integrated technology solution is never an easy process. So when construction technology vendors engage in M&A (merger and acquisition) activity, the thought is that integration between the two products should be seamless. However, that is not always the case.

Still, you do have some technology vendors making concerted efforts to ensure products being acquired won’t simply fall off the digital map, so to speak. For instance, Oracle, www.oracle.com, Redwood Shores, Calif., is looking to tie together some recent acquisitions under the mission of helping improve project and portfolio management for the construction industry.

Contractors are being sought for a new four-year North-east framework valued at between £90 million and £1 billion to replace the abandoned North East Improvement and Efficiency Partnership.

The North East Procurement Organisation is seeking six contractors for four lots under its new framework for building construction works.

On the 14th-16th November, Team GB headed to Lucerne, in central Switzerland for the 24th World Championship for Young Roofers and the 60th International Federation for the Roofing Trade (IFD) Congress.

At the last championship, back in 2010, Team GB had the home advantage as the National Federation of Roofing Contractors hosted the competition in Belfast and there they scooped one gold and two silver awards plus a President’s prize. But this year, Team GB represented by Matt Timby, Stephen Harkin, Sam Hall and Tom Peck faced the challenge of techniques and materials not in use in the UK.

Construction firms are increasingly using payroll companies to "codify false self-employment" in the industry, robbing the Treasury of around £1.9bn a year and leaving workers without even the most basic of employment rights, according to a new report.

The study, the Great Payroll Scandal, has been commissioned by construction union Ucatt.

It claims that workers are forced to sign contracts with payroll companies in order to obtain work. While in reality the worker is an employee for the construction company, they are officially classed as self-employed. This means they can be sacked without warning, do not receive holiday or sick pay, have no pension provision and are denied access to employment tribunals.

Anthony Simone knows all about infection control methods for construction on hospital renovation sites.

That is because the drywall instructor at the Toronto-based Interior Finishing Systems Training Centre (IFSTC) took a comprehensive course on the subject in Las Vegas and hopes to pass on what he’s learned through a course organized for contractors in Toronto.

With infections in hospitals killing thousands of people across North America — and onsite construction seen as a potential source of infection — his objective makes sense.

Is a subcontractor qualified for a project? Technology not only helps answer this question, but also stores data associated with subcontractor qualifications for use on a project. These days, more general contractors are using such technology to manage sub qualifications electronically.

One recent example comes from Miller Construction Co., www.millerconstruction.com, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., which is encouraging its subcontractor and supplier base to maintain a complete qualification profile inside the platform from jobsite123, www.jobsite123.com, Plantation, Fla.

According to jobsite123, open access to the platform allows for sharing of qualifications information between all project stakeholders. The data within the jobsite123 platform can also be automatically distributed to other construction software such as SmartBidNet from JB Knowledge Technologies, www.jbknowledge.com, Bryan, Texas.

Balfour Beatty has beaten four competitors to land Suffolk’s £500 million highways maintenance and improvement deal.

Balfour Beatty Living Places has beaten Amey, Carillion/Mott MacDonald, Enterprise Mouchel and MGWSP (May Gurney/WSP) to the deal, expected to be confirmed at a council meeting next week.

It will be responsible for the design and implementation of highway maintenance and improvement works, winter gritting, street lighting, traffic signals and bridge works throughout the county for at least the next five years.

The UK’s leading roofing and waterproofing specialist BriggsAmasco has been awarded the Reinforced Bituminous Membrane award at the prestigious NFRC Scottish Roofing Contractor of the Year Awards 2012.   

The award for the company’s waterproofing application at St Andrews House in Glasgow reinforces the company’s position as the market leader in roofing and waterproofing.

This high profile project in Glasgow involved the conversion and refurbishment of a sixties 17-storey office block to create a new hotel in the city centre.

Building firm W J Edge & Sons Builders has been fined after a worker fell five meters before being struck by a wooden board and concrete blocks.

The man fractured his elbow and nose after a partially-built floor gave way in Brook Street, Shepshed, on 26 January 2012.

Leicester Magistrates’ Court heard yesterday that he was helping to construct the second floor of a new build house for Hinckley-based W J Edge & Sons when the joists collapsed onto first floor joists, that then also gave way.