AFI quickly stepped up to the mark to supply boom lifts to steel erectors Wisconco after the contractors had received a poor service from another hire company.
Wisconco was erecting the steelwork for a new £50m exhibition centre being built in Liverpool when it turned to AFI for help.
One of the UK’s leading window blind manufacturers is celebrating an unprecedented number of new trade account holders following the launch of a new online portal
Wakefield based Green and Brown produces over 4000 made to measure blinds per week for online stores, independent high street retailers and installers.
Portakabin Hire, the UK’s leading interim modular building specialist, has designed and supplied a complete school for short-term use at Highgate Junior School in north London. The building is in use for two years whilst a new facility is under construction.
Portable environmental sound and vibration stations meet contractual requirement for real time measurement in surgical and external environments
When 24-hour real time measurement of noise and vibration levels was required by McLaughlin & Harvey, one of the UK’s leading construction companies, for a building project at Kings College Hospital, three SV212 portable environmental vibration and sound monitoring stations from Svantek (tel: 01296 682040; www.svantek.co.uk) were considered the best solution for the job.
Designed to test the Code for Sustainable Homes to its highest level –namely level 6. It is scheduled to become one of the first zero carbon communities in England. To achieve this, HTA engaged with design team partners, the Parish Council, the Homes and Communities Agency, English Heritage, South Gloucestershire council, the Green Belt Society, local residents and supply chain partners including Barratt Homes and Kingspan Timber Solutions.
Proof of an increasingly buoyant construction industry is evidenced in new figures from an independent commercial finance provider that shows that the number of deals has almost doubled in the last 12 months as smaller businesses look to find additional means of investment and funding cashflow.
A Sika Sarnafil waterproofing roofing system has proved to be the perfect fit for The Donyngs Leisure Centre, Redhill following a major £4.1 million upgrade and refurbishment.
The re-roofing project was initially to be completed in two phases but the Reigate and Banstead Borough Council was able to draw on more funds allowing both phases to be rolled out as one.
Proof of an increasingly buoyant construction industry is evidenced in new figures from an independent commercial finance provider that shows that the number of deals has almost doubled in the last 12 months as smaller businesses look to find additional means of investment and funding cashflow.
How Mobilengine’s mobile workflow solution delivers for McGee Group
The introduction of Mobilengine, a mobile workflow solution which offers paperless administration for construction companies, is helping to improve efficiency and increase the accuracy of processes for multi-disciplined specialist contractor, McGee Group.
North-West firm ARC Window Films called in to resolve an unusual problem at Wigan’s Grand Arcade shopping centre.
The Grand Arcade, Wigan’s top shopping centre, has received a revolutionary window film treatment to reduce solar heat and glare entering the glazed-roofed building following comments from customers that temperatures, particularly in the first-floor food court, were too high. Staff members were also working in warm conditions, making for an uncomfortable environment within which to prepare and serve food.
