The 2019 FASET AGM and Awards event is to be held at a brand new venue at the stunning Tewkesbury Park in the Cotswolds on Thursday 28th November.

FASET are proud to be supporting the No Falls Foundation – the charity dedicated to preventing falls from height and helping people affected by the consequences of a fall.  The No Falls Foundation will be the sole beneficiary of all charitable donations made at the 2019 event by FASET members and guests, which saw £2,360 collected for The Lighthouse Club Construction Charity last year. 

Following the acquisition of UK Platforms in January 2019, Nationwide Platforms are pleased to announce that the integration of these two brands will complete with the new enlarged business operating solely under the Nationwide Platforms brand from 1st November 2019.

Over the last few months, integration work has been underway with the aim of bringing together these two great trading brands to create a strong, healthy and robust business platform with Health, Safety and Customer Service at its core.

The Association for Specialist Fire Protection (ASFP) welcomes the release of the report following the first phase of the Public Inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire and will comment further once the findings have been examined in greater depth. 

It is well documented and understood that the major failing of the building was due to the cladding material, and the ASFP looks forward to phase 2 of the Public Inquiry when the circumstances that led to its inclusion in the building will be determined.

The NASC has launched its 2020 Yearbook – showcasing more confederation news and updates than ever before.

The Yearbook features a round-up of NASC standing committee outputs, more than 30 pages of NASC Awards submissions and a comprehensive listing of full contracting NASC members.

The NASC has further strengthened its connection with the military by signing the Armed Forces Covenant. 

By signing the Covenant, the NASC has made a formal commitment to promote career and training opportunities in the scaffolding industry to ex-military personnel.

FIS the trade body representing the finishes and interiors sector is delighted to announce the appointment of George Swann as Skills and Training lead for the organisation. George will pick up the exciting training portfolio of the FIS and help to drive the organisation’s focus on competence through the FIS For Competency’s SAKE Framework. He will take up post in January 2020.

George has been employed in training and training development since 1979. He served 22 years in the Corps of the Royal Engineers, the construction arm of the British Army. During his service he worked on various construction sites around the globe including civil engineering projects for road building, dam, bridge, pier, wharf and harbour construction, firing range demolition, repair and construction and in general building work of troop shelters, security posts, sports and recreational facilities (changing rooms, cafes and bars). He completed his service after a three-year post employed as a Training Development Analyst working at the Combined Arms Training Centre in Warminster. He left the Army at the rank of Regimental Quarter Master Sargent with qualifications in Management, Health and Safety, Quality Control and Vocational Assessment.

BeadMaster, manufactured by aask us Ltd will be exhibiting at STAND N50 at London Build, the leading construction and design show for London, being held at the Olympia London, 27-28 November. 

BeadMaster is the new and innovative product that improves the quality of installation around all electrical switches, sockets and downlighters. It has impressed the judges so much at the “London Construction Awards” and “The Building Awards 2019” that it is the finalist in both for the “Innovative product of the year”.

Financial services broker, Midlands Asset Finance (MAF), has increased its coverage in the north with the appointment of a new Director of Asset Finance

Based in York, James Dutton will be responsible for overseeing the development of customer relationships and building out a new team of relationship managers in the region, as MAF continue their strong growth. 

Joining from Santander, where he spent six years as Director of Asset Finance, James has also previously worked for Barclays Bank and was at Yorkshire Bank for 15 years prior to that. 

CapSure have announced that they will be presenting at the 4th international conference of the European Asbestos Forum Foundation. This amazing event will take place on the 14th and 15th of November in Amsterdam. 

The European Asbestos Forum aims to improve international professional networks and the exchange of the best knowledge regarding all matters related to asbestos across sectors and borders. The conference will feature a multidisciplinary program with over twenty speakers and specialists of global repute from many different countries and several continents. The main theme of this conference will be ‘Asbestos & Innovation’ as seen from many different social and technical perspectives.

Manchester learning hub Procure Plus is aiming even higher after meeting its target of delivering trainees in to construction-based employment earlier than expected. The Stretford-based hub, which joined the Construction Skills Fund (CSF) in October 2018, has now set itself the target of delivering double the number of trainees and an additional 150 positions of employment by March 2020.

CSF aims to support people out of work, or at risk of redundancy to secure the training they need to start new careers in construction. Funded by the Department for Education (DfE) and delivered by Construction Industry Training Board (CITB), the pilot scheme aims to increase the number of people trained in construction, tackle the skills shortage and build the homes and infrastructure England needs.