Balfour Beatty highways maintenance arm opens second control

Balfour Beatty highways maintenance arm opens second control

Balfour Beatty’s highways maintenance arm, Living Places, has opened a new operational control hub located at its depot in Millbrook, Southampton.

Focused on Living Places’ contract with Southampton City Council, the hub uses the latest technologies and systems designed in-house to provide a single source of visibility. It can monitor all activities in real-time, track progress of works and enable

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Craig Shaw, Academy Estate Consultants

The director/senior building surveyor/project manager at Academy Estate Consultants and vice-chair for the CIOB Chelmsford Hub Committee talks about his love of construction and the importance of training.

Why did you choose construction?

I always enjoyed helping my dad undertake various DIY tasks – I liked the sense of accomplishment that came at the end. As a teenager I also

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MCIOB hits a home run on London project

Mike Vasiliou MCIOB, founder of DoBuild, a construction company specialising in high-end residential projects across London, talks through a recent project.

We recently completed an extension and refurbishment to a grand Victorian terrace in Chelsea, which I project managed. Having started working on this project during the lockdown period, it is wonderful to now see the project completed, as the

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