Baxi Heating’s commercial hot water storage portfolio has been extended with additions to both the Remeha and Andrews Water Heaters brands. The Remtank 316 Stainless Steel cylinder range provides a flexible, low maintenance solution for sustained heat in buildings with year-round heat demands. The 8-bar cylinders are available in single …

The BBC News visited Wolverhampton builders’ merchants Carvers Building Supplies yesterday as part of a report into how the West Midlands economy is coping post-lockdown. Managing director Henry Carver was interviewed by BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg and told her how the firm’s 300 staff had been furloughed for three …

B&Q parent Kingfisher plc  has announced the appointment of Tony Buffin as a Non-Executive Director of Kingfisher with effect from 1 December 2020. Buffin was formerly group chief operating officer and chief financial officer at Travis Perkins PLC and during 2019 was chief executive officer Holland and Barrett. Andy Cosslett, …

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. Well that all sounded rather splendid. Lots and lots of lovely Government lolly heading the way of the construction industry to rebuild the economy post-pandemic. Gazillions of …

Amongst the bounty announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson today (June 30) to get the economy moving again after the Covid-19 pandemic was £1.5bn this year for hospital maintenance, building, and the improvement of A&E capacity, £780m on school and college repair and upgrades in addition to the £1bn new …

Builders merchants trade association the Builders Merchants Federation is supporting Eureka! Research in its quest to understand what working life is really like for the plumbing and heating trades coming out of the Coronavirus lockdown. The research company is gathering information from as many installer businesses as possible to discover …

The team at Covers Timber and Builders Merchants in Chichester has helped patients at the Rowans Hospice Charity by donating three parasols to its Living Well Centre. Last year, patients at the Rowans Hospice, based in Waterlooville, Hampshire, couldn’t enjoy the Living Well Centre courtyard garden area due to a …

The New Deal for Britain speech by the Prime Minster Boris Johnson today (June 30) has been welcomed by the Builders Merchants Federation. The speech promised a greater commitment to creating jobs, skills and infrastructure as the Government looks to build the UK back to economic health in the aftermath …

“We asked for ‘Build Back Better’, but what we’ve got is ‘Build Build Build’. That was the response of Julie Hirigoyen, Chief Executive at UKGBC to the Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s speech today (June 30) outlining plans for the post-COVID economic recovery. “If we do not seize this moment, and …

Heating and plumbing merchant Wolseley will fully reopen all of its UK trade counters from tomorrow (July 1). Wolseley, which has been operating an order and collect service for essential maintenance since early in the lockdown period, has been reopening trade counter doors on a phased basis since June with …