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Projects firm’s Diamond Jubilee

PROJECT and cost consultant, Faithful+Gould, is celebrating its Diamond Jubilee. Since it was established in 1947 the company has grown from small beginnings to an international business with more than 64 offices. Read

Prefabrication helps labour shortage and environment

ONE way to ease the skilled labour shortage and the industry’s impact on the environment is to prefabricate the installation of mechanical and electrical (M&E) services. Read

Plasterers celebrate £200,000 contracts

A PLASTERING firm has won contracts worth more than £200,000. Tabner Plastering Contractors have won work to support the provision of affordable homes in the Tees Valley area. Read

Meldrum beats the shop refit deadline

MELDRUM Construction Services celebrated this week, when a much anticipated shop the team had pulled out the stops on opened ahead of schedule. Read

Renewal project is vital if we are to meet targets for new homes

WE need to build more homes for the next generation. The fact is that too many people are being priced out of a home of their own because the country has failed to build enough housing for decades. Read

New lease of life for former dog stadium

A FORMER greyhound stadium is set to be transformed into a new housing development thanks to some swift work by regeneration specialist Woodford Land. Read

Engineering consultancy appoints director

BES Consulting Engineers has appointed Michael Poulton to the board of directors. Michael has been with the Newton Aycliffe firm for more than seven years, joining as an electrical engineer and gradually rising through the ranks. Read

Anne is the builders’ Achiever of the Year

THE managing director of a North-East builders’ merchants has won one of the country’s top industry awards. Read

Workshop on contribution of migrants

CONSTRUCTION Industry experts are set to join the national debate on migrant workers when they discuss their impact on the industry in the North-East at a special skills workshop. Read

Tyne tunnel no one noticed earns prize

A CRACK crew of tunnellers and their back-up teams, toiling more than a year to restore drinking water successfully to a flood-devastated North-East market town, have won their firm a major award. Read

Pair build rapport with young

STAFF from Frank Haslam Milan (FHM) North-East swapped blueprints for chalkboards, going back to school to give pupils a lesson in site safety. Simon Ferry and Rachel Webster from the company’s resident liaison team visited Moorside Primary School in Consett, County Durham, to warn pupils of the dangers of trespassing and playing on building sites. Read

Surgo turnover set to hit £65m

FAST developing construction company Surgo is heading for a 30% leap in turnover next year as the business benefits from two major education projects. Read

Kerry and Leigh join leading team

THE construction team at North law firm Ward Hadaway is looking to build its business further with the recruitment of two new members. Leigh Child and Kerry Short have joined the team which has so far this year advised on more than £300m worth of projects. Read

Not best time to cut back on safety

THE whole issue of safety, for workers and members of the public, has probably never been under greater scrutiny in the wake of the prosecution of the Metropolitan Police Service over its shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes. Read

Finance company has new chief

A HOUSEBUILDING finance company has appointed a new boss for the North-East. Wolsey Securities, an independent finance specialist for housebuilders, has appointed Terry Davies as a new managing director. Read

£4.7m deal to build new primary school

CONSTRUCTION company Morgan Ashurst has won a £4.7m contract to build a new primary school in Peterlee. The company, which has local offices in Darlington and Durham, secured the Durham County Council deal to construct the school. Read

FHM gets the point on safety

FRANK Haslam Milan (FHM) North- East has proved that it has safety nailed by achieving a nationally-recognised health and safety accreditation. Read

Constructing Excellence in the North East

THE built environment sector is a broad and diverse industry, with individuals, businesses and wider organisations all battling to be heard. Within our region alone, thousands of tiny voices express their thoughts and opinions of what the sector needs. Read

Faithful+Gould celebrates project’s financial close

THE Stockton office of international project management and cost consultants Faithful+Gould, has reached financial close on the £118m North Middlesex University Hospital PFI project. Read

Profits will be hit by slow housing market

ASLOWING housing market has dampened confidence in the UK’s construction profit outlook, despite growth in construction workloads stabilising this quarter, according to the RICS construction market survey. Read