Monthly Archives: December 2014

The latest Scottish Construction monitor survey suggests the industry’s recovery is now in full swing.

Tomorrow OBAS will send out our final newsletter of 2014 as the industry gets ready for a much-needed Christmas break. We thought we'd round up the top articles by number of readers on obas.com.

We review the basics of PPE in our latest infographic.

No area, when building a new property or extending one is more complex than complying with Part L of the Building Regulations. It is a consideration that must be made at design stage and our clients even take advice prior to putting pen to paper.

The new London Garden Bridge over the Thames is being chased by three contractors including one UK-based contractor.

Severfield is to supply the steel work for Liverpool Football Club’s upcoming stand extension in addition to a range of other projects totalling £43m.

The Construction Industry Scaffolders Record Scheme (CISRS) has signed-up its 50,000th member with the milestone representing the highest number of valid card holders since the schme started in the 1960s.

Tradesmen are true superheroes; you’ve been busy building the economy, creating jobs and growth; however since the recession, huge numbers of skilled tradesmen have left the industry and we’re now facing the biggest skills shortages the construction industry has ever seen. Compounding this problem is the perception of construction, which is one of low paid, low skilled, manual roles. It’s estimated that we’ll need over 600,000 new construction workers in the next 5 – 10 years and to achieve that we need to become advocates for this industry. It’s time construction’s super tradesmen get out there and let the world know what it’s really like to work in construction; an industry which has been revolutionised over the last 20 years by technology, an industry in which youngsters can earn a trade that they’ll benefit from for the rest of their lives and an industry that’s prepared to pay well for those skilled tradesmen.

Eric Wright Construction has announced they've been appointed for a huge £11m office project, consisting of a flagship office building in the Wirral Enterprise Zone for Longmeadow Estate.

Walthamstow Forest Council has announced house builder Countryside is now the official development partner in the redevelopment of the Marlow Road Estate.