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Production to be doubled at Ibstock brickworks

Ibstock Brick has secured planning permission to build a new manufacturing facility at its existing site on Leicester Road in Ibstock. The expansion will more than double capacity at the Ibstock brickworks, which this year is...

Kier wins Durham student halls scheme

Vinci wins Auckland street lighting contractFive compete for ยฃ90m Bristol ArenaBAM signs Utrecht rail contractSkanska picked for Portland hotelVolkerFitzpatrick starts ยฃ36m coffee roastery Kier Construction has been appointed to construct the ยฃ20m Sheraton Park student accommodation...

Vinci wins Auckland street lighting contract

Kier wins Durham student halls schemeFive compete for ยฃ90m Bristol ArenaBAM signs Utrecht rail contractSkanska picked for Portland hotelVolkerFitzpatrick starts ยฃ36m coffee roastery Vinci subsidiaries Electrix and Citeos IDF Exploitation have won a four-year contract to...

Kebony to build Belgian factory

New initiative targets illegal timber tradeNew timber group up and runningTTF goes it alone with new voice for woodTimber sector reports record ordersBadly stacked boards crush joinery worker Kebony has raised โ‚ฌ19m (ยฃ13.5m) to build a...

Scottish graduate engineers are best paid

Pay dispute at Ainscough Crane HireEngineering construction workers accept three-year pay dealBattersea builders promised London Living WagePay rises 5.7% in past year but job creation slowsLivingย Wage demonstrations planned for London sites A survey of civil engineersโ€™...

The Construction Industry Training Board has ordered 6,000 skills card holders to re-sit their health and safety tests after widespread cheating was uncovered at...

Those required to re-sit the test will be issued with vouchers to cover the cost at the CITB's expense. Systematic cheating and fraud was uncovered by a BBC Newsnight report last month. Future Training 4 Jobs...

M&E firms see rising demand

The associationโ€™s state of trade survey reveals a positive โ€˜net optimism measureโ€™ of 45%, up from 39% six months ago. Firms in every region and of every size and specialism expressed optimism about theirย future business prospects. ...

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