News

After the recent news in the media that Britain needs one million extra construction workers by 2020 in order to fulfil house-building needs, Lyndon Wood, CEO and owner of www.constructaquote.com made the following comments on the current climate of the industry.

Pimlico Plumbers CEO, Charlie Mullins, shares his thoughts on how installers can add value through PR.

The Construction Product Association's (CPA) latest Construction Trade Survey shows that activity in construction rose for the tenth consecutive quarter in Q3.

The market for replacement kitchen doors has shown solid growth since 2008, with average annual growth of around 4-5%.

Lords Builders Merchants held their seventh Annual Golf Day in September at the Ealing Golf Club for 50 of their customers.

More than 20,000 elite athletes, celebs, club runners, and fundraisers took part in the 25th Great South Run at Southsea on October 25th 2015.

Greenworks Training Academy hit its 100,000 training hours milestone in November, the equivalent of an installer working eight hours a day, five days a week, for the last 50 years.

Manufacturers and distributors of construction products run thousands of training programmes for the builders and tradespeople who install their products. An opportunity exists to put that training on a formal footing with nationally recognised qualifications, according to a report from the Construction Products Association (CPA).

Travis Perkins plc has been highly commended at the East Midlands final of the National Apprenticeship Awards 2015.

Ibstock Brick is set to bring an additional 100m bricks per year to the UK construction market, having secured planning permission to proceed with new state-of-the-art facility in Ibstock.