Business & Management

Stuart Mawhinney has been appointed the new Managing Director at Duct Products, following the retirement of Des Collins, who co-founded the company in 1987.

How much is social value worth to a business, asks Be Ethical Training?

Action to confront the climate emergency is at the forefront of the Society for the Environment’s (SocEnv) work, and, with the eyes of the world on the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in November, SocEnv is committed to helping individuals and organisations make 2021 a year of substantive change.

Tim Oakley, Head Consultant at the London Housing Consortium, paints a post-Covid picture of public sector procurement

Geoffrey Makstutis, Subject Lead for Construction and Art and Design at Pearson, offers an opinion on ethics and asks ‘Who are buildings for?’

With 35 years’ experience in construction, Tony O’Donnell has been appointed as Engineering Director at Mabey Hire.

Freya Lees has been re-elected as Chair of the Fife-based association, with Linda Leslie and Laurie Naumann as Vice Chairs.

Openreach is radically changing the language it uses in its recruitment adverts after new research from Exeter University revealed that hidden bias deters more than half of female applicants.

Following the EU trade deal reached in December 2020, the construction industry is relieved that the worry of tariffs and quotas has apparently been avoided.

Dan Grimshaw explains why he walks away if the process involves competitive tender and is based on cost alone

UK clay and concrete building materials manufacturer Ibstock has announced its new sales structure, with a number of senior appointments to the commercial leadership team within its clay division.

US-based Eric Ottinger ACABE is a Construction and Real Estate Advisor at EY

EngineeringUK looks back on the difficult year that was 2020 and sees hope for the future

The British Board of Agrément (BBA), the UK’s building product certification organisation, and Barbour Product Search, the online product directory for building product manufacturers, are uniting to assist companies wishing to develop sustainable, innovative product development practices.

The beginning of the year might not have been the fresh start we hoped for. The UK is in the midst of its third lockdown and we are already onto our second Construction Minister of the year.

Richard Flynn CEnv CEng FCABE, of Flynn & Shaw, Ireland, discusses what ethical professionalism means to him and whether he is seeing changing behaviour patterns in the industry

Louise Beamish of WSP joins the ANC Board for the first time, while Rob Adnitt of Adnitt Acoustics returns to the board after an eight-year hiatus.

Catherine Gibson joins CCF as the new Managing Director from Tool Hire, also part of the Travis Perkins Plc Group.

Jonathan Gallie, Group HR Director for Stroma, discusses a training programme built on the applied framework of CABE’s competencies.

UK warranty and insurance provider for new homes NHBC has launched the 2021 edition of its technical Standards. Effective for every new home covered by an NHBC warranty where foundations are begun on or after 1 January 2021.