Summer is a time when the strain on vehicles increases, as hot weather can cause the engine to overheat, which can have serious consequences. Fixing the consequences of overheating can be expensive, including engine replacement or major repairs. To avoid overheating problems, keep their vehicles running efficiently, and minimise repair costs, companies with fleets take […]
For the first time, organisations have access to a workforce across five generations, with Baby Boomers working alongside Gen Z. While this may present some challenges, there is a huge opportunity to utilise intergenerational learning, and embrace different opinions, knowledge and experiences. Traditionally, mentoring and learning has been seen as a relationship between older generations,
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Costain was the largest single supplier to National Highways in 2023/24, just ahead of the Balfour Beatty-linked consortium that carries out M25 upgrade work, Construction News can reveal. It marks the third successive financial year that the contractor and consultant topped the roads body’s league table, and came despite a dip in its roads work
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Morgan Sindall will restart a stalled leisure centre project in Newcastle after a council dropped Willmott Dixon in an effort to cut costs. Newcastle City Council announced yesterday that it appointed Morgan Sindall as its key construction partner for the West Denton leisure centre (CGI pictured), where costs have inflated by half, to £34.2m. The
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Paul Maile is a partner at Eversheds Sutherland The UK is due an infrastructure revolution. It’s time for a renaissance of public-works building to bring our aged and end-of-life energy, utilities and transport networks into the present century. And to make them fit for the future. The political will is there, or at least it
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Petrol stations have come under fire after overcharging UK motorists by a staggering £1.6 billion last year, according to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). The regulator’s findings reveal that fuel margins – the difference between the wholesale cost and the pump price – have remained significantly above pre-pandemic levels. The CMA highlighted that supermarkets
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One contractor has dominated Homes England’s spend on site preparation work, according to official figures. The housing and regeneration quango spent more money with John Sisk & Son than any other contractor in the past two financial years, Construction News can reveal. Figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show that the firm received
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Former construction minister Lord (Richard) Harrington has been named as the chair of developer Regal. The £350m-turnover group, formerly known as Regal London, consists of several companies, including Regal Construction – its in-house building arm. Lord Harrington (pictured) was the MP for Watford from 2010 until 2019, and served as construction minister between January 2018
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The Farnborough International Airshow 2024 has announced deals worth at least £13 billion to the UK, according to the ADS Group, the UK trade association for the aerospace, defence, security, and space sectors. By Thursday evening, the total value of deals, estimated by the ADS Group to be £81.5 billion, highlights the industry’s “confidence, resilience,
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 46:34 — 65.2MB) | Embed Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | | Subscribe to Elite Agent At the Ray White Group’s recent Real Estate of Origin these agents helped secure more than 10,000 appraisals across Australia and New Zealand, ready to supercharge their teams’ upcoming spring market
