Brickwork Direct has picked up £10m worth of work in the past six weeks alone – which is more than its entire 2021 turnover of £7.5m.
Brickwork Direct employs 25 staff at its headquarters in South Shields and has close to 200 bricklayers on its books.
The project, called Big-T, is intended as an extension to the national power grid by both producing and storing electricity. The client is BE Power and GE Renewable Energy, a division of General Electric.
BigT will consist of a pumped hydro energy storage facility (400MW/10 hours) and a battery energy storage facility (200MW/1
In August 2021 Willmott Dixon was appointed by Spelthorne Borough Council to build an energy-efficient leisure centre built to Passivhaus standards. The build cost then, just 12 months ago when councilllors approved the project, was £30m. Now that building work has actually started the cost is
Banbury-based Allsafe Scaffolding runs a fleet of 44 vans and lorries. For three months it is putting an additive in three of the vehicles to see if they get more miles out of the tank.
The additive is supplied by London-based SulNOx Group, which claims that its product, called SulNOxEco Fuel Conditioner, reduces emissions
Council contractors have to report back on the quantity of work they have carried out, the materials they used (types and quantities), how it got to site, what fuel was used to get it to site, the equipment and fuel used needed on site, and treatment of any waste created.
Details are gathered to help build a
There is a growing demand for level crossings to be replaced across the UK rail network due to the risks they pose to the public. Taziker has responded with its own design solution.
In 2018 Network Rail organised a design competition with the Royal Institute
