MDF specialist W.Howard has added six brand-new Mercedes trucks to its in-house delivery fleet. Part of W.Howard’s continuing growth plans, the investment will help to further improve W.Howard’s delivery service to customers nationwide. W.Howard’s Operations Director, Phil Tissington, and Transport Manager Neville Waring, received the Actros L Big Space 2548LS …

The 20th Baxters’ Loch Ness Marathon and Festival of Running was given a helping hand by Inverness-based wood panel manufacturer, West Fraser (trading as Norbord) to help protect the grass in Bught Park where the Festival took place. The Festival of Running is a two-day event providing sporting opportunities for all the …

to improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often One of the first things you learn in a UK Politics 101 course is about the Post-war Consensus, the economic order and social model which the major political parties in post-war Britain shared a consensus supporting …

Encon Construction Products, the specialist construction division of The Encon Group, has launched its first edition Product Guide. The new digital Guide includes an extensive range, helping customers from builders’ merchants and specifiers to contractors find the right products easily and quickly. The Guide includes comprehensive product information across six …

Have we eaten on the insane root That takes the reason prisoner?’ The law of unintended consequences is that actions of people—and especially of government—always have effects that are unanticipated or unintended. The Parliamentary Conservative Party turfed out its leader, former PM Boris Johnson for the very good reason that, …

Builders merchant chain MKM has opened its 100th branch, with the opening ceremony at the branch in Bromsgrove performed by David Kilburn, the joint founder of MKM and Kate Tinsley, MKM’s CEO, watched by special guests ex-Aston Villa and England footballer Dion Dublin, along with Kevin Ward, Bromsgrove’s Town Crier. …

The thirteenth housing minister in 12 years, and the fourth in 2022, has been named as Lee Rowley, who ran, unsuccessfully, Kemi Badenoch’s campaign to be Prime Minister. The MP for North East Derbyshire, he replaces Marcus Jones, who lasted just two months, after taking over from Stuart Andrew.

Ibstock, the manufacturer of clay and concrete building products, and Earth Friendly Concrete (EFC) has entered into a new partnership to create ultra-low carbon concrete products. The partnership will see EFC’s ultra-low carbon, zero cement technology integrated into Ibstock’s diverse portfolio of high-performance building products for the construction industry, including …

Welsh builders merchant Robert Price is opening of a new, state-of-the-art air source heat pump showroom in Newport tomorrow (Wednesday 28th), to help people across Wales make a confident and successful transition to sustainable home heating. Teaming up with heat pump manufacturer, Daikin, the Sustainable Energy Centre is being opened …

Property expert, writer and broadcaster, Kunle Barker is to speak at the first Institute of Builders Merchants  conference next week. Barker, who is a regular host and speaker at Grand Designs and UK Construction Week, will be joining keynote speaker Lt Col (Retd) Stewart Hill and David Kilburn, founder of …