Construction news, construction in the North East

Firm spreads word to keep children safe

HUNDREDS of children in County Durham have been warned of the dangers of playing on building sites. Read

Biker goes up a gear building for wealthy

AFORMER professional motor cycle racer and his wife have secured a multi- million-pound loan to expand their luxury housebuilding firm. Read

Demand has to be fired up again

TWO years ago, if you had told me private house building would become an area of uncertain employment prospects, I would have disagreed. Read

We’ll live in polystyrene homes soon, says group

THE team behind a new environmentally aware housebuilding company in Gateshead is boldly predicting the beginning of the end for conventional bricks and mortar houses within eight years. Read

Firms fear taking on trainees

CONSTRUCTION firms in the North East are ignoring the need to take on apprentices and losing up to £153,000 of support as a result. Read

Message is not getting through

ALL the parties campaigning for yesterday’s local elections put green issues at the heart of their message. Despite this and media coverage of global warming, the requirement for our homes to be carbon neutral by 2016 does not seem to have sunk in. Read

Office quicksteps to completion

BUILDER Rok has completed the final phase of offices on the site of a dance hall which thrived in the 1950s and 1960s. Read

Insulation strategy at JT Dove

BUILDERS merchant JT Dove has launched a new company which aims to help the region reduce carbon emissions. Read

Finishing touches to new spa

BUILDER Rok is helping to transform a health club into one of the most luxurious in the North East. Read

We must all work to improve tendering

THE media had a field day following the Office of Fair Trading’s announcement that it had issued Statement of Objections against 112 construction firms. Read

Firm running courses to lay foundations for future

A CONSTRUCTION and demolition company is going back to the classroom to help close the skills gap in the North East’s building industry. Read

£2.2m hospital work in healthy order book

BUILDER Dorin is putting the finishing touches to a hospital contract as part of efforts to avoid the credit crunch. Read

Constructing Excellence - Long way still to go on safety

NOW that the new corporate manslaughter legislation is in place, there has never been a more important time for the construction industry to take a long hard look at its health and safety policies. Read

Building site thieves are marked men

BUILDING firm Rok has done its bit to cut crime within the region’s construction sector by installing the latest forensic security system at a housing development in County Durham. Read

Firm builds its defences against credit crunch

A NEWCASTLE construction firm is to carry out a further extension to the new £17.3m Bishop Auckland College as it takes steps to widen its portfolio of contracts in an effort to avoid the worst effects of the credit crunch. Read

Safety experts ‘appalled at blatant disregard’

UP to a third of construction sites in the North East are putting workers at serious risk, says the Health and Safety Executive. Read

Miller takes national title again

A BUILDER which is to construct more than 400 homes in the North East this year has picked up a national award. Read

Construction market is having credit crunch fears

WORRIES that the construction market is facing a tough year have been confirmed by a new survey showing sharp falls in workloads and private housing contracts. Read