Civil engineering specialists Wrekin Products has launched Geoworks, a new standalone division for its geosynthetics range. Geoworks encompasses all of Wrekin’s existing geosynthetics offerings, including geotextiles, geogrids, geomembranes, geomats, geocells, and geocellular paving. Geoworks continues to offer a wide range of geosynthetic solutions for various industries, making their catalogue more …

 Exeter’s tradespeople of the future are being backed in the next steps of their careers by Selco Builders Warehouse. The builders merchant has donated thousands of pounds of materials to college students carrying out trade and construction courses around the country. Amongst the beneficiaries have been students of Exeter College …

Premier Forest Products and customer Ian Williams Carpentry have donated to a social enterprise flower farm at Hartcliffe City Farm, Bristol. The South Wales businesses, have donated three picnic benches for use in the flower farm, which is run by Heart of BS13. Heart of BS13 is a local charity …

Mapei UK’s Zero line of carbon offset* products has been extended further, with the introduction of two waterproofing mortars and two coatings.  The waterproofing mortars include Mapelastic Zero elastic cementitious mortar which is used for waterproofing, bathrooms, swimming pools and concrete elements and Mapelastic Guard Zero flexible cementitious mortar used …

Gerald Jones, the Labour Party candidate for the seat of Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare, saw first-hand how the building materials’ supply chain is evolving to support environmental responsibility in construction, and responding to the net zero carbon challenge, in a visit to Aberfan builders merchant Hughes Forrest. Jones was welcomed …

Builders merchants trade association the Builders Merchants Federation wants to see a fresh impetus from the next government is needed in support of the building industry to speed up the delivery of quality new homes of all types and tenures, and to implement an effective programme of energy efficient retrofit …

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, Witty without affectation, free without indecency, Learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood   Sometimes those weird days of 2020-2021 seem like we imagined them. Those days when we weren’t supposed to go out and do that most human of things – communicate, in person, …

Grant & Stone has opened a new builders merchant branch in Swindon. The branch, located on Headlands Industrial Estate, offers a wide range of products available, including building materials, plumbing supplies, timber and sheet materials, landscaping products, and painting and decorating supplies, the new builders merchants branch will cater to the …

Leicestershire-based merchant P&R Building Supplies has joined National Buying Group as a Partner. Family-owned P&R has been in business since 1983, selling landscaping and gardening supplies, plumbing and drainage products along with general building supplies. It has branches in Coalville and Loughborough. Managing Director, Lee Glover says: “Although it was …

Much benevolence of the passive order, may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain on oneself I’m currently sifting through my reams of notes from the NMBS Conference in order that our report in the July issue gives a proper flavour of what was said, by whom to those …