More News – Page 1648
-
News
Biomass pellet boiler
Viessmann has launched the Vitoligno 300-P biomass pellet boiler with outputs from 4kW to 48 kW and an operating efficiency of up to 86%
-
News
Hybrid ventilation system
Passivent has launched the iHybrid domestic ventilation system, which it claims uses 55% less electrical energy than a conventional mechanical system
-
News
Mechanical ventilation
Vent-Axia has added the Sentinel Kinetic Plus to its range of residential mechanical ventilation with heat recovery systems
-
NewsRodent control
Vermend has launched the Rat Blocker, a system for preventing rat invasion via sewage outlets in domestic and commercial properties
-
NewsDimmer switches
MK Electric has added dimmers suitable for use with dimmable compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) to its Logic Plus range
-
NewsArabtec takeover abandoned
A deal that would have involved an investment fund linked to the Abu Dhabi state taking a controlling stake in Dubai contractor Arabtec has been abandoned at the eleventh-hour.
-
News
Simons restructures to make top directors more ‘hands on’
Retail specialist Simons Group has streamlined its senior management structure in an attempt to bring its top directors closer to its clients.
-
News
Telford optimistic
Telford Homes said year-end results would exceed expectations after achieving better than expected sales this year
-
News
Balfour’s £300m job
Balfour Beatty has beaten Wates to the £300m Ealing Building Schools for the Future scheme, Building understands
-
News
Battersea revived
The redevelopment of Battersea Power Station, designed by Rafael Viñoly, has been given the green light from English Heritage
-
News
£149m housing job
Renfrewshire council has awarded Apollo, Wates Living Space, Connaught and Carillion Planned Maintenance a £149m contract to upgrade energy efficiency, safety and facilities in 13,000 council properties.
-
News
Home sales rising
Sales activity in the housing market is rising at its fastest rate since May 2007, according to an RICS survey
-
News
Nuclear reactor deal
A joint venture between Atkins and Faithful + Gould has won a €150m (£132m) deal to design a nuclear fusion reactor in the south of France
-
News
McAlpine set to clinch Milton Court job
Sir Robert McAlpine is set to grab the £150m Milton Court scheme, one of the biggest contracts being tendered in the City of London market
-
News
Latest construction appointments - 16 April 2010
EIC has appointed chartered quantity surveyor Robert Duggan commercial head of its mechanical, electrical and building fabric business
-
News
Shadow minister defends safety self-inspection plans
The Tory shadow business minister has responded to criticism of his plans to privatise health and safety inspections.
-
News
UAE mall developer looks to UK for £1bn-plus framework
Jon Emery, former director of Hammerson, who now runs the construction programme of Dubai-based Majid Al Futtaim Properties, has called on UK contractors not to shy away from bidding for a new £1bn-plus framework to build 10 large shopping centres in the Middle East.
-
News
Unite's Bob Blackman to retire
Bob Blackman, national secretary for construction at union Unite, has announced his retirement after 12 years in the job.
-
News
Team behind collapsed Cube contractor rehired
The team behind Buildability, the collapsed contractor of The Cube in Birmingham, has been re-employed by administrator Pricewaterhouse Coopers to finish the £100m mixed-use development.
-
News
Public sector props up industry in March as Balfour tops table
More than half of month’s £1.78bn total comes from public projects