Lanes Group plc has won a prestigious Utility Week Award for its ground-breaking wellbeing programme that combines digital app technology and practical help for colleagues in need.

AkzoNobel is expanding its International range with additional coatings and mortars for the repair and remediation of concrete. Following AkzoNobel’s acquisition of Flexcrete Technologies Ltd in June 2017, the full range of advanced cementitious coatings is being made available as part of the Intercrete series.

Every year, there are many fires on construction sites and in buildings undergoing refurbishment. Often workers are injured, and property is destroyed, causing unexpected costs which businesses many never recover from.

It’s been proven that prefabrication can lower accident rates, reduce construction time by 30%, and material costs by 20%. So why is it that offsite manufacture of building services elements is not being fully utilised by companies? Here, MIDFIX discusses the importance of prefabrication, and the many benefits that it brings.

A sales graduate working for Howarth Timber & Building Supplies has recently been named Rising Star of the Year at the 2018 British Excellence in Sales Management Awards (BESMA), hosted by the Institute of Sales Management (ISM).

Casella, air sampling, noise and vibration monitoring specialist, has launched an improved version of its Dust Detective Enclosure. The ideal survey tool for efficient area monitoring, Casella’s Dust Detective Enclosure is a game changer in short-term boundary monitoring, on the market from November 2018.

As part of the BBC’s DIY SOS: Big Build project, Mackwell provided its emergency lighting systems and technical expertise to an ambitious project to create the North Kensington Community Centre and rebuild the Dale Youth Boxing Club which was destroyed in the Grenfell Tower fire.

Eurocell plc, the UK’s leading manufacturer, distributor and recycler of PVC-U windows and doors, has launched Modus Reversible, the first co-extruded reversible system in the UK, providing fabricators with a superior product to offer to their customer base of installers and specifiers.

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myConsole has launched a free individual user, pre-construction GO/ NO GO Pipeline Management CRM.

Contractors can improve their margin by 1% to 2% by using myConsole, an intelligent pre-construction workflow productivity tool that allows them to avoid abortive bidding and refocus previously wasted resources on bids which have a higher win rate.

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Multi-award winning Principal Contractor McGoff Construction has announced plans to open a London office.  Located on Lombard Street, directly opposite the Bank of England, the new office opened on 1st October 2018.

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