For the year to 25th February 2022 NG Bailey made a pre-tax profit of £3m, turning around the previous year’s £4.4m loss.
Annual turnover was broadly unchanged but down slightly at £500m (2021: £507m).
Earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and amortisation (Ebitda) was £7m (2021: £3m) with an underlying operating profit of £800,000 (compared with a loss of £2.7m
Engineers at RMIT University have developed a method to use disposable personal protective equipment (PPE) to make concrete stronger, providing an innovative way to significantly reduce pandemic-generated waste.
The RMIT team is the first to investigate the feasibility of recycling three key types of PPE — isolation gowns, face masks and rubber gloves — into concrete.
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RESERVE, LA – What does “benefits and investing” in your people mean? You’ve probably heard it all, from vacation and health care to fun Fridays and to tell the truth these are all correct, but in today’s environment are those truly engaging and motivating employees? “Benefits” is a term that has undergone subtle change for many years but in today’s
BESA has issued an interim technical bulletin ahead of a full update of its industry guidance for the ‘Installation of Fire Dampers and Smoke Dampers’ (DW145), set to be launched at the association’s national conference in October.
BESA said that it was producing an interim announcement because of “the urgent nature of the problem” exposed by annual inspections carried out
Shorter payment times for SMEs, greater collaboration and empathy, better hygiene, and prioritising mental health, are just some of the beneficial changes that have emerged from the pandemic.
The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) has highlighted some of the positive new ways of doing things within construction in a new report, Covid-19 and Construction: Learning lessons to strengthen the construction
Inspired by the way termites build their nests, researchers at Caltech have developed a framework to design new materials that mimic the fundamental rules hidden in nature’s growth patterns. The researchers showed that, using these rules, it is possible to create materials designed with specific programmable properties.
The research, led by Chiara Daraio, G. Bradford Jones Professor of Mechanical Engineering
