This week

Sustainability data
Want to know how green a product is? Green Book Live brings together listings from a number of organisations and delivers information on sustainable products and services.
www.greenbooklive.com

Get the lowdown on bats
Bats in the belfry is a serious problem. It can delay a development for years all 17 bat species in the UK and their roosts are protected by law in the UK. So advice on how to survey buildings for bats from the Bat Conservation Trust could be a useful read.

www.bats.org.uk/news_events/BatSurveys.asp

Ciria offers flood repair guidance
Doing its bit to help flood-hit areas, research specialist CIRIA is offering free online access to its report: Standards for the Repair of Buildings Following Flooding. It covers the repair of common types of domestic buildings in the UK.
www.ciria.org/downloads.htm

A right rivesting read
Here’s one for bed time: the fourth edition of Fundamentals of Building Construction: Materials and Methods is now available. This essential textbook, the press release says, has been used by thousands of students annually in schools of architecture, engineering, and construction technology.

http://www.researchandmarkets.com/product/f3d243/fundamentals_of_building_construction_4th

Course targets plant managers
A five-day course launched by the National Construction College in conjunction with Construction Plant Association and ConstructionSkills is designed to update plant managers’ safety knowledge.
www.cskills.org/traininglearning

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Construction Manager