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Lafarge Aggregates & Concrete UK turned its Panshanger Park quarry into an outdoor classroom for the day as ecology students from the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew learned how quarry restoration can be a friend to nature.

The government must support the Green Deal by levying a rate of 5% on work connected with it, according to Bill Bolsover, chairman of the Construction Products Association.

The Carbon Trust has confirmed today that paving and walling supplier Bekstone has further reduced its carbon emissions by an astounding 19.2%.

Plumbers merchant Plumb Center has called for the Government to restore confidence to the renewables industry after the £860m Renewable Heat Incentive scheme was unexpectedly suspended.

Housing minister Grant Shapps wants the Government needs to build at least a further 200,000 homes a year.

Cement manufacturer Cemex has been fined £200,000 following the death of a worker in an explosion at its Rugby factory.

Computer systems supplier Kerridge Commercial Systems has bought TIS Software, which trades as Strategix OneOffice and Global Business Systems.

Anne Ganley, chief executive of Sunderland independent builders merchant Thompson Building Centres has been honoured by Sunderland City Council.

A lorry loader working for builders merchant Jewson has been fined after another worker was crushed in the brick clamp of the lorry loader, leaving him with serious internal injuries.

The Freight Transport Association (FTA) and the Association of Lorry Loader Manufacturers and Importers (ALLMI) have jointly produced a DVD covering the most common applications and uses of lorry loaders, with a strong emphasis on basic operating skills and awareness of the associated hazards.