Supply Chain

The government’s product safety regulator issued multiple recall and improvement notices to two building insulation manufacturers, an official has said. Speaking earlier this week at a Building Safety Regulator event, Duncan Johnson, deputy director for construction products regulation at the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS), said two firms were…

A Merseyside-based facade specialist that worked on the Oxford Science Park has entered liquidation. Complete Facade Systems (CFS), based in Haydock, St Helens, appointed liquidators after becoming unable to pay its debts. Notice was given yesterday (24 April) that the company had been voluntarily wound up and Lisa Ion and…

Materials firm Breedon Group has mitigated the impact of lower sales volumes through its pricing strategy. The UK, Ireland and US-based company said in a trading statement this morning (24 April) that sales volumes were down 9 per cent in the first quarter of this year when compared with the…

Staff at Crane Building Services & Utilities (BS&U) in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, are holding a strike ballot over pay. The ballot opened on Thursday (18 April) among 105 workers – or 78 per cent of the firm’s 151 employees – and will close on 2 May, according to trade union GMB.…

Keltbray has landed the piling work package for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club’s new 29-storey hotel. The engineering specialist confirmed that it had started on site, making preparations for the foundations. The facility was initially approved as part of the permission granted for the £1bn Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in 2016, but…

Structural steelwork specialist Taziker Industrial Ltd has posted a pre-tax loss despite an 18 per cent increase in turnover, its latest annual accounts have shown. Revenue for the year ending 31 March 2023 reached £87m compared with £73.5m the year before. Company directors attributed this increase partly to more work…

Clients should pay for extra costs incurred by scaffolders due to measures in the Building Safety Act, according to the head of a trade body. On Saturday, (6 April), the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) took responsibility for signing-off all designs for high-risk residential buildings before construction can begin. Any changes…

Erith Plant Services has been fined £175,000 after a worker was killed by a falling demolition grab at the firm’s workshop. Liam McArdle, 24, was at the facility in Swanscombe, Kent, when the excavator attachment fell onto him while it was being loaded onto a lorry. According to a statement…

The leadership of three of construction’s biggest charities is changing as two industry stalwarts announce their retirement. Lighthouse chief executive Bill Hill will retire at the end of this week, after more than a decade at the helm of the wellbeing support charity. CRASH boss Francesca Roberts, in charge since…

The UK’s rollout of heat pump installations is running behind schedule, the National Audit Office (NAO) has said. In a report published on Monday (18 March), the NAO said that the number of heat pump installations up until December 2023 was less than half of what was planned. The NAO…