Williams sponsors Women Installers Together Conference 2022
Williams & Co Plumbing and Heating supplies is sponsoring Women Installers Together Conference, the only national event for all women plumbers, gas engineers, other tradeswomen and trainees. It will take place in Central London on July 6 2022 and feature guest speaker Mandy Hickson, one of the first woman fast jet fighter pilots.
Digital Transformation in Construction Event 4 April
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South Korean £300m Teesside Factory
SeAH Wind confirmed investment of £300m into the largest monopile factory in the world to be based in Tesside. the 90-acre site will create 750 direct jobs and 1,500 more indirect ones. Originally planned for the Humberside, it is due to commence in July and should be produce 100-150 monopiles per year when fully active by 2026. A monopile is a steel tube foundation of a wind turbine.
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Diesel No More at Laing O’Rourke
The engineering company has taken the urgent step to replace diesel with vegetable oil in all its plants. In stark contrast to companies who make 30-year commitments, Laing O’Rourke has committed to complete the project by the end of this March! Hydrotreated vegetable oil is a temporary measure whilst the firm replaces its equipment with electric & hydrogen equipment. Red diesel won’t be available from 1 April 2022 ...
West Midlands Lithium Car Battery Plant
Coventry Council has been approved to build a lithium car battery plant in the West Midlands at Coventry Airport. It will cost £2.5bn and start producing in 2025. It is 530,000 square metres and powered by renewable energy for example wind and solar. It will produce new batteries and recycle used ones.
HS2 Roman Figure Found During Excavations
HS2 roman figure
A Roman figure in the shape of a human datin...
Prince Philip Park Regeneration Programme
Prince Philip Park is part of one of the most exciting and innovative and largest regeneration projects in the UK. The development will provide sustainable growth in Whitehill & Bordon taking a community of 14,000 people to one with over 23,000 people. Our vision is to make Whitehill & Bordon one of the most desirable places to live, work and play in the region.
The Solution—100% Connectivity
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Electric Vehicle Chargepoints as British as Phone Boxes?
Currently the UK has only 1 chargepoint for every 27.2 vehicles – the worst of 12 countries & even 2 US states. The new design unveiled on transport day at COP26 was created by the Royal College of Art prioritises ‘inclusivity and ease of use’ and was also created to raise awareness & generate excitement around electric vehicles. The Government has committed to phase out fossil fuels by 2...
Potted History of 2021 in Construction
Happy New Year everyone, from us all at EMS!
UK Construction industry kicked off 2021 in lockdown which shortly ended at the same time materials shortages started due to the result of Brexit and no lorry drivers with record materials price rises. A container vessel getting stuck in the Suez Canal in March made headlines and worsened the crisis and global factories that had been closed down during the pandemic tri
Construction site broadband: what are the options?
Fixed line – ADSL – leadtime weeks, speed slow (<10Mbit), cost low but getting more difficult to procure as we approach the switching off of the copper network in 2026.
Fixed line – FTTC – leadtime weeks / months. Not universally available. Speed slow (10s of Mbits). Cost low.
Fixed line – FTTP / Leased Line – leadtime months. Speed fast (100Mbit – 10GBit) / SLA possible Cost high particularly if exc
Digital Construction Week 2021 Now Live
Digital Construction Week is 24-25 at ExCel London and has announced its speaker lineup. DCW is Europe’s leading innovation and technology event for the built environment. In partnership with UK BIM Alliance the Show will host a BIM village with BIM workshops, CPD learning hours qualified presentations. Register free. Geo Business, the Geospatial technology show, is running next door for anyone involved in the gathe
Addressing connectivity in the town of the future
Whitehill and Bordon Regeneration Company (WBRC) deployed a private 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile network in its development of the new town centre which delivers reliable and secure connectivity providing groundbreaking uplink and download internet speeds. To deliver on its ‘digital’ vision WBRC invested in its own dedicated private fixed and wireless networks. WBRC’s vision was a hybrid network wit...
