Britain’s newest laboratory for the analysis of radioactive materials has just arrived on site at Dounreay in Scotland. The project, which is under construction by off-site specialist Yorkon, is also the first nuclear facility of its kind to be built using modular construction, and one of the most complex and remote modular building projects ever undertaken in the UK.

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Sidhil Ltd is one of Europe’s foremost manufacturers of hospital and home health care furniture and accessories, serving as a principal supplier of an extensive product range to both the private and public healthcare markets in the UK as well as into an increasing number of international markets.

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Unlike the majority of insurance companies, GRS understand that roofing contractors will rarely spend every working hour up on a roof.

There are many other important things to be done, from unloading the lorry, collecting materials, preparing and measuring, to just stopping for a cuppa.

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Insight Data, the leading supplier of business data for the building industry, has opened up new opportunities for suppliers in the commercial and new-build sector by launching the first comprehensive database of major building companies in the UK.

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George Barnsdale & Son have achieved a successful, accredited test to BS EN 1627-30 for their timber window design, using Roto NT tilt and turn hardware.

“This is a seriously impressive result”, says Roto Technical Specialist Shaun Adams. “We’ve worked closely with Barnsdale and together we’ve created a specification to meet the demanding challenges of the BS EN testing standards.”

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With over 40 years’ experience in providing complete on-premise laundry solutions to care homes across the UK, working with care home groups such as Barchester, JLA offers design and build packages that take away the hassle of laundry design for new developments.

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With more than 6,800 fall from height injuries last year in the UK*, NEL, the UK’s oldest fall-arrest test laboratory, is questioning why CEN, the European Standards Body, refuses to include human-like anthropomorphic test dummies (ATD) within its product safety standards.

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Shopping – love it or hate it – when you’re building something, there is often an awful lot of it to be done. With the average material spend on a job being around 46% of the cost, is your business making the most out of your purchasing decisions?

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Cinema-goers in Redruth, Cornwall will soon be able to enjoy screenings of the latest blockbusters powered by the sun, thanks to a Cornwall renewable energy company.

The Regal Cinema in Redruth is currently undergoing a major refurbishment, and its owner hopes that once complete, it will become one of the busiest in the group.

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The Steel Window Association represents the great majority of UK steel window manufacturers, ranging in size from the smallest of craft-based companies specialising in domestic and small commercial replacement and repair work, through to large companies that manufacture and install windows in literally every type of building. There is not a single steel window project of any description that one of the SWA members cannot handle.

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