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The UK energy industry is calling on the Government to commit to a hydrogen future, and has launched a campaign to raise awareness of hydrogen gas for heating homes The ‘Hello Hydrogen’ Campaign (www.hellohydrogen.com) sees gas distribution networks, boiler manufacturers and energy suppliers come together to raise households’ awareness on …

David Simmonds, MP for Ruislip, Northwood & Pinner, visited Jewson Ruislip too see first-hand the role the building materials industry can play in improving energy efficiency. Jewson Managing Director, Nadine Matthews hosted the event, organised by the Builders Merchants Federation, with Regional Director Kris Winters and Ruislip branch manager Dean …

Sales growth for construction product manufacturers ended in Q3, according to the Construction Products Association’s latest State of Trade Survey. Furthermore, a slowdown in construction activity in the publicly financed and repair & maintenance sectors since Summer, as well as the deteriorating economic backdrop, underpin manufacturers’ expectations of a contraction …

Robert Price, the independent builders’ merchants in South East Wales, have been nominated for two Welsh Housing Awards. Recognising and celebrating the creativity, passion and innovation of housing organisations and businesses across the Welsh sector, the Awards provide an opportunity for people to celebrate projects that have helped tenants, customers …

North East-based partner companies Secon Renewables and AUK Distribution are targeting further growth and industry success with the move to a new home in Sunderland. The new head office and warehouse, at Unit F, Colima Avenue, Sunderland SR5 3XB, is almost five-times the size of their previous base at 30,000 …

Created to showcase, inform and educate customers on sustainable building materials and construction solutions, builders merchant Robert Price opened its Sustainable Energy Centre in Newport, last month. The independent builders’ merchant has teamed up with Daikin, world-leaders in heat pump manufacturing to launch the centre in Robert Price’s Newport branch. …

Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer, visited boiler and heat pump manufacturer, Vaillant, HQ in Belper, to see production of its low carbon technology in action and gain a clearer view of how government and industry can work in partnership to ensure the UK can successfully transition to low carbon technologies. …

Leading independent timber & builders merchant, Joseph Parr has completed its £1m investment into the north Tyneside area. Joseph Parr (Middlesbrough) covers the Northeast area with two branches & a newly refurbished 4000ft² showroom in Stockton on Tees. David Anderson, managing director, said: “Our Benton site had outgrown itself and …

Domus Ventilation, part of the Genuit Group (formerly Polypipe), has completed the Genuit Group Yorkshire 3 Peaks Challenge in support of the Maddie Rose Campaign. Six members of Domus Ventilation staff joined over 100 others from across the Genuit Group of companies on October 7 on the gruelling 24 mile …

Volunteers from the construction charity Band of Builders are set to lay a new driveway so that the family of a Burgess Hill man left with hypoxic brain damage brought on by a heart attack can get him out of the house in his wheelchair. The driveway of the home …