Hard Surfaces joins the Natural Stone Show at ExCeL London in 2019.
The medal, certificate and button hole badge awarded to the recipient of the Duke of Gloucester Award for lifetime achievement in the stone industry. Do you know someone who should receive this honour? You can nominate them using the form on the Masons Livery Company website (click here to download).
When using flammable solvents take note of the warnings.
Simon Thomerson, Director of Clearview Design & Construction Ltd, has been jailed for eight months after pleading guilty to a health & safety breach that resulted in two brothers working...
Now it is protected.
French dimensional stone is starting to receive the EU geographical identification (GI) protection already extended to food and drink products such as Melton Mowbray pork pies and Champagne.
Construction output showed healthy growth in May.
Construction output grew 2.9% in May compared with April and 1.6% compared with May a year earlier. This follows a slow start to the year, with the late snow dampening construction output.
The new Housing Minister, Kit Malthouse.
In the Government reshuffle following the resignations of David Davis and Boris Johnson this week, Christopher (Kit) Laurie Malthouse has been appointed as the new Housing Minister.
The Government sets out its proposals to deliver £600billion-worth of projects for construction, including £44billion of housing, in the next decade in the Construction Sector Deal.
The Wacker Neuson lithium ion-powered mini excavator showing what it can do at the Hillhead exhibition in June. It is clean, quiet and as powerful as a diesel equivalent.
Building sites kill four times as many workers as the all industry average. Photo from HSE.
This was the workshop of Planet Granite last year when Glenn Langdon (left), the Sales Director of Australian Techni waterjets, dropped in to see Steve Murphy, the owner of Planet Granite, the first UK stone processor to buy a Techni waterjet. Now Italian CNC stone saw and edge polisher manufacturer GMM has bought the Techni company. Its UK agent, Roccia Machinery, will add Techni waterjets to its offering.
Going up. Above inflation pay rise and benefits in construction are intended to offset the loss of overseas labour as a result of Brexit.
The SpeedCut 100 wire saw from Epiroc, with a wire at speeds of 45m per second, is on show this week (26-28 June) at the Hillhead heavy plant exhibition and demonstration in Derbyshire.
In London, 28% of people in construction come from other parts of Europe.