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It’s estimated that in the construction industry 400,000 days are being lost annually to work-related stress, anxiety and depression and in CEMEX this relates to around 15% of all absences.

Plumbing and heating merchant buying group PHG presented its 2016 Supplier of the Year awards at an event at the Carden Park Hotel in Chester.

Baxi is sponsoring Amanda Sowerby and her Streetbikes team as they cycle 260 miles from Dortmund to Huddersfield Town in May 2017. The cyclists will be raising funds for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance.

Selco Builders Warehouse has launched a hectic summer of branch openings which will cement its position as the UK’s fastest growing builders merchant.
 

Andrew Harrison of Travis Perkins plc, Shanker Patel of Lords Group and Ian Haldane of the Haldane Shiells Group have been elected to the Board of the Builders Merchants Federation with effect from 1 July 2017.

The next Government must ensure the construction sector has enough skilled workers post-Brexit or its housing and infrastructure manifesto pledges will be redundant, says the Federation of Master Builders (FMB).

Builders and plumbers merchant group Travis Perkins increased revenue by 4.6% to £6.22bn in the 12 months to December 31 2016, the group’s year-end results have revealed.

Students from some of the UK’s top universities have begun to submit their entries for the inaugural Heatrae Sadia Design Awards.

John Newcomb, MD of the Builders Merchants Federation, is one of the top business leaders in the West Midlands shortlisted in the prestigious IoD Director of the Year Awards. 

Redland is launching a competition to find the 2017 Redland Apprentice of the Year. The newly launched competition is open to all roofing apprentices who are currently enrolled with one of Redland’s participating colleges or training groups within the company’s Young Redland Roofer student support programme. *