the rain came plunging through the leaves as if every drop were a great leaden bead. We’ve known for ages that there would be a General Election this year. There has to be, as the five years since Boris Johnson’s triumphant ‘Get Brexit Done’ demolishing of the red wall, is …

  Scientists from Cambridge University believe they have found a way to produce cement and reduce the carbon footprint of its manufacture. The most common building material, cement is also the most problematic as it requires so much energy to produce the chemical reactions to manufacture it.  The method, which …

Civils & Lintels, part of the Huws Gray group of companies, has been named a preferred supplier of hard landscaping products to subcontractors working on developments for mixed-tenure housing developer, Vistry Group, which is comprised of Bovis Homes, Linden Homes, Countryside Homes and Countryside Partnerships. Chris Evans, group procurement manager …

At ev’ry word a reputation dies Future historians may well look back on the decades at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st as the Cover-Up Years. The decades when wrong-doing – whether deliberate or simply people doing a bad job – was hidden, obfuscated, …

Builders merchant Bradfords Building Supplies has promoted Lee Harwood to the post of chief operating officer, following four years as group finance director. As COO, Harwood will be responsible for overseeing administrative operations and developing operating procedures to optimise productivity and efficiency across the organisation. This new role will also …

Independent builders merchant buying group NBG has signed deals with BP and UK Fuels, to provide highly competitive pump prices for its Partners. The deals will track the Platts Wholesale rate with suppliers receiving an agreed margin over the weekly wholesale price, giving NBG’s network of independent merchant Partners access …

Builders merchant group Lords turned over £462.6 m for the year ended December 31 2023, the group revealed this morning (May 15). This figure was up 2.8% on the previous year, however pre-tax profits, at £10.4m, were 40% down 2022, due to interest costs, depreciation and amortisation. The merchanting division …

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from regard to their own interest Are we in a recession or are we out of a recession? Were we in a recession or were we just teetering on the …

Insulation supplier Knauf Insulation is planning to invest circa€200 million in a new state-of-the-art rock mineral wool factory for the UK market.  The large-scale facility will use cutting-edge, low-carbon electric melting technology,  and have an annual capacity in excess of 100,000 tonnes, Through this investment, Knauf Insulation will achieve two …

Damian Ransome, a learning and development manager at Travis Perkins Hire, is getting set to ride to as many as 80 locations across the UK, to fulfil the rules of the Brit Butt Tour, which sees motorcyclists undertake the challenge of visiting as many of those locations as they can …