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Latest construction company news
Wolseley has opened a national showcase for sustainable building products and construction methods, which aims to accelerate the UK’s move to sustainable construction.
The 6,800 sq ft Sustainable Building Center, built at a cost of £3.2 million, is the first building of its kind in the UK, providing a living, interactive centre for decision-makers throughout the construction industry.
The building, at Wolseley UK’s 18-acre site at Leamington Spa in Warwickshire, will help make sustainable ... [more]
The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) and the Women's Transport Seminar (WTS) will host a one-day conference on 'Delivering Diversity in Engineering, Construction & Transport' on Friday 27 June at One Great George Street, London.
Confirmed speakers include Claire Curtis Thomas MP; David Morris, former Mayoral Adviser on Disability; Jean Venables, ICE Vice President; Valerie Todd. Tfl Director for Group Equality and Inclusion; Carolyn Yates, UKRC and Doug Oakervee, Executive Chairman, Cross... [more]
Wastecycle has made a substantial £2m investment at its two licensed facilities at Colwick on the outskirts of Nottingham.
Part of this investment process has included the purchase of two Volvo loading shovels and three further Volvo excavators, continuing an association with Volvo Construction Equipment since the company’s inception in 1998. The wheeled loaders in question are an L110F and an L120F which are tasked with rehandling recycled aggregate, soils and the residue waste from the site... [more]
Wirtgen America Inc. will exhibit the new W 120 F at Conexpo-Con/Agg 2008 in Las Vegas in March.
Part of a new line of midsized mills, the W 120 F is a high-performance cold milling machine with a drum width of 48 inches (120 cm), ideal for removing complete asphalt courses with a milling depth of 0 to 12.6 inches (0 to 320 mm). Its engine output is 304 hp, and it replaces the W 1200 F/T in the product line.
The W 120 F has a hydraulic swinging track for flush cutting, and features front-e... [more]
Experts from across the construction industry must work together now to share experience, innovation and best practice and expand the collective knowledge essential in delivering the government’s carbon saving objectives, if the UK’s house building aims are to be achieved by 2016.
Neil Schofield, Head of Sustainable Development at Worcester Bosch and Chairman of the Construction Products Association’s Low and Zero Carbon Buildings Group which has been launched to investigate the realities of... [more]
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