Chevin Housing Association has selected housing regeneration specialist Lovell to carry out £20m of improvement work for homes across Yorkshire over the next two years. Work is now under way on the housing association’s whole house improvement programme which will… Continue Reading →

The warning comes on the 3rd anniversary of the Fire Door Inspection Scheme.  The UK’s most experienced inspector has found widespread evidence of poorly fitted fire doors. Fire door inspectors findings Over 61% of fire doors inspected had problems with… Continue Reading →

The Education Funding Agency is planning to overhaul its procurement practices to clear the way for smaller building firms to play a greater part in improving the school estate. The big rethink on the priority schools building programme at the EFA… Continue Reading →

The Heritage Lottery Fund has provided £98m to nine heritage sites, with a focus on projects to preserve Britain’s rich scientific and technology history, in the hope that it will inspire young people to take a greater interest in science… Continue Reading →

Focus Consultants is playing a key role in the redevelopment of one of the UK’s most historically significant sites for motoring, aviation and engineering after helping Brooklands Museum secure a grant of more than £4.5 million. The company has been… Continue Reading →

Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (KGH), has been fined after an employee received serious burns whilst stripping down a steam boiler. On 5 November 2012, a maintenance worker at KGH was stripping down a steam boiler for periodic examination,… Continue Reading →

Retail developer Intu submits plans to revamp its shopping centre in Milton Keynes.  The proposals for the shopping centre, expected to cost more than £70m, include more shops, a new dining quarter, green spaces for families to relax at lunchtime… Continue Reading →

The entire second floor of an end of terrace house being refurbished collapsed to first floor level in West Ealing last week. Firefighters and the brigade’s Urban Search And Rescue crews were called to the scene to search the building… Continue Reading →