Construction workforce monitoring specialist VIS Systems has launched VISion PPE – the industry’s first fully automated AI-powered PPE detection solution. VISion PPE enables HSQE teams to: Detect missing PPE in real time (helmets, hi-vis, gloves, harnesses,...

Cambridgeshire-based steelwork contractor SDM Fabrications has filed a notice of intention to appoint administrators. The family-owned firm, which employs around 100 staff, operates mainly across East Anglia and London. Operating out of a 4 acre site in March, near...

Procure Plus has named more than 100 firms to a new four-year, £1.6bn framework to deliver low and zero-carbon upgrades across social housing and public buildings. The deal covers retrofit assessment, design, coordination, and installation of heat pumps, solar PV,...

Stepnell has strengthened its leadership team with the appointment of former Vinci UK Developments boss Graham Lambert as Midlands director to spearhead regional growth. Lambert joins the Rugby-based contractor after six years as managing director at Vinci UK...

An application for planning permission is set to go in for the first data centre at the ambitious Silicon Sands digital infrastructure development next to Blackpool Airport. Plans for a 6MW carbon friendly data centre and 20,000s sq ft office and research space are...

The race is on for places on LHC Procurement Group’s latest £1.5bn Public Buildings Construction and Infrastructure Framework (PB4). The fourth-generation deal will cover new-build, refurbishment, and civil infrastructure projects across the UK — with an extra lot for...

An East Midlands social housing provider has been fined £32,000 after multiple builders were diagnosed with Hand-Arm Vibration Syndrome (HAVS) after using power tools. The HSE launched an investigation after it received more than ten reports of vibration related...