At Vista Insurance Brokers, we regularly arrange cover for a variety of specialist construction risks. These include Surety Bonds, Legal Indemnities and Owner Controlled Insurance’s. We are committed to meeting the many challenges development projects face, at every stage of the process. Today, we are looking at a type of…
David Johnson, Pre-Construction Director at Volumetric Building Companies, looks at artificial intelligence and why the construction sector should be embracing this new technology. The construction industry has been a vital driver of economic growth and development throughout history, shaping the cities and infrastructure that define our modern world. However, despite…
David Johnson, UK Pre-construction Director at Volumetric Building Companies, shares his thoughts on the future of offsite construction in the UK and the urgent need for change. The UK Government has made no secret of the need for faster, higher quality, and more predictable construction solutions in every sector –…
Turn Up & Deliver Package In partnership with BOS, UK Construction Week is coming to Birmingham NEC on the 3rd to the 5th of October 2023. Co-located with Timber Expo, Grand Designs Live and Green Living Live. BOS will be providing a platform for industry leaders and specialists to showcase…
Buildoffsite member, C-Probe are delighted to announce that they have made the shortlist for the Materials Performance (MP) magazine’s Corrosion Innovation of the Year Awards, and also the Top 50 Construction Tech Partners with BuildIn Digital. It is their alkali activated cementitious (AACM) anode mortar, LoCem®, has been nominated for the Corrosion Innovation of…
The full report can be found on the Supply Chain Sustainability School’s website here. 27th September, London, UK - The Supply Chain Sustainability School (the School), a multi-award-winning initiative which represents a common approach to addressing sustainability within supply chains, has today released its Fairness, Inclusion & Respect (FIR) Annual…
Align JV is the joint venture of Bouygues Travaux Publics, VolkerFitzpatrick and Sir Robert McAlpine responsible for delivering Package C1 of the HS2 high speed rail route between London and Birmingham. It is arguably the most technically complex of the route packages with a 3.37km viaduct and 16.04km of twin-bored…
The Sustainability Tool, a software application designed to help organisations and their supply chains measure and monitor their sustainability performance, has launched the 2022 employee diversity benchmarking survey. The annual employee diversity benchmarking exercise, carried out within the Sustainability Tool, is a collaborative effort to better understand and improve the…
Premier Modular, one of the UK’s leading offsite specialists, has delivered a highly unusual project to provide decant teaching facilities at Douay Martyrs Catholic Secondary School in Ickenham. The temporary classrooms, science laboratories and SEN spaces have been sited on top of a permanent modular building and while that building…
Krozen Design & Consultancy Limited Catterick Village, North Yorkshire Email: ken.davie@buildoffsite.com I can probably be best described as a Contractor’s Architect having worked on design/build projects with major UK contractors for almost 30 years of a 40-year career. During this time, I was part of an in-house design department working…