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Officers qualified to make home eco assessments

TEES Valley Housing Group is offering energy efficiency ratings to the housing industry after two of its regeneration officers qualified to make eco assessments on homes. Read

Hall & Partners move to break male domination

A PROJECT management firm has helped to increase the representation of women in the male-dominated construction industry with its latest crop of staff. Read

Manifesto will make industry stronger

CONSTRUCTION industry leaders have teamed up to help the region's builders sign up to a manifesto hoped to make the industry stronger. Read

Construction Excellence in the North East

ONCE again, this column finds itself looking at the issue of skills within the industry, following the Government’s announcement this week of a “British job for every British worker”. Read

Growing venture destined to buzz

A BUILDING firm which created a business complex on land bought from One NorthEast has announced plans for a second phase of works. Read

How to make county one of nation’s greenest

CIVIL engineering firm Edmund Nuttall Ltd has been appointed the building contractor of Sita UK’s new integrated waste management facility (IWMF) in West Sleekburn, Northumberland. Read

Constructing excellence in the North East

THIS year, it is expected 86% of applicants for apprenticeships in construction will be unsuccessful in securing a training opportunity with an employer. Read

Joint visit helps cement closer relations

THE Institution of Civil Engineers and The Royal Institute of British Architects are forming a closer partnership in the North-East. Read

Best features kept during restoration

THE challenge of restoring an historic building to a new use while retaining its best features has been faced at Beadnell House by developers, Northside Management and Jane Darbyshire and David Kendall (JDDK). Read

Meldrum wins £500,000 deal

MELDRUM Construction Services has won a £500,000 contract which will help another firm improve its carbon footprint. The Chester-le-Street firm will be working with Rohm and Haas at its Jarrow site on the manufacturer’s new boilerhouse. Read

RNJ chosen as priory cost consultant

CONSTRUCTION consultant RNJ has been appointed as cost consultant on the £6m renovation of the National Trust’s Nostell Priory. Read

Industry willing but far from ready

FOR some time now, it seems that there has been one hot topic which has dominated the industry and this column. Sustainability. With the world’s eyes on energy efficiency and the environment, the construction sector is central to the future of our planet’s green issues, so this is no surprise. Read

£19m homes upgrade project to start

A NEW partnership has been formed to deliver a multi-million pound investment programme to improve the homes of thousands of people in Derwentside. Read

Work starts on £4.9m campus

DEVELOPER Terrace Hill has appointed builder Mansell to create the first phase of a 55,000 sq ft office development on Princeton Drive in Stockton. Read

College invests in unique lab

NEWCASTLE College has invested more than£100,000 in a new soils and materials laboratory for its School of Construction, Automotive and Landbased Studies. Read

Getting the right balance on building controls

THE future of building controls has been thrown into doubt with the publication of a Government review document which some experts argue “signifies the end of building control as we know it”. Read

Opening the door to equal opportunities

A PROJECT to open up cultural employment opportunities in the region’s housing sector is celebrating a successful first two years. Read

Firm gets another education academy

A PROJECT manager and cost consultant has boosted its £150m education portfolio after being appointed to work on a controversial Northumberland academy. Read

Welcome to our critical friend with construction at heart

THIS column recently bemoaned the omission in Gordon Brown’s Business Council for Britain of a representative from the construction industry. Read

Academy work going well despite weather

THE largest education project under construction in the region is well on schedule – despite a long spell of bad weather. The 80-week build programme to construct the new Excelsior Academy in Scotswood, Newcastle, is underway. Read