News

  1. Is there a digger graveyard under London's prime property?

    London's property bubble is sparking evermore creative ways to maximise the space of its residents with many of the city's elite taking to digging down creating huge basement spaces, a knock on consequence of this is in creating a different kind of graveyard in the heart of our capital city.

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  2. HSE targets exclusive London basement projects following fatalities

    The HSE is launching a surge in safety checks on expensive London basement conversion projects in the more salubrious London boroughs next week.
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  3. How important is slip resistant footwear for construction?

    At OBAS we sell a huge range of safety footwear. These tend to focus on making sure they offer maximum protection should the wearer drop something on their foot or should something fall on them. Our safety footwear products come in a wide range of options including safety shoes, safety trainers, safety boots, safety wellington and even safety waders!
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  4. New Scunthorpe United stadium gets planning approval

    Approval for Scunthorpe United’s new 12,000-seater stadium has been granted planning permission.
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  5. Bouygues JV gets £90m London Garden Bridge Construction Contract

    The £90m construction contract to build Thomas Heatherwick’s £90m Garden Bridge over the River Thames is believed to have gone to a Bouygues’ joint venture bringing the contentious bridge one step closer to reality.
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  6. What is sound hazard on a construction site?

    Hard hats, safety glasses, gloves and safety harnesses all provide the wearer with immediate protection from a hazard. If you've been protected from a falling brick for example you know it’s happened and you can thank your lucky stars you were wearing a hard hat (hopefully you won’t be seeing stars!). However the role of hearing protection is quite different because noise industry hearing loss (NIHL) is a process which has a cumulative effect over the course of many years.
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  7. Which category of safety gloves should you choose?

    There are so many gloves out there, when trying to choose the next set of gloves for the task at hand you will be forgiven for scratching your head, through the holes in the tips of your glove’s fingers.
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  8. 3,000 skeletons to be removed from Crossrail graveyard

    Archaeologists have begun the careful excavation of around 3,000 skeletons at Liverpool Street in the City of London ahead of the creation of the new Liverpool Street Crossrail station according to contractor Laing O’Rouke.
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  9. 40,000 new home registrations during Q1 of 2015

    The UK had more than 40,000 new home registrations during the first three months of 2015, representing an 18% increase on the previous year.
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  10. Planning applications for factory construction dramatically rise in North West

    Great news for North West based construction firms that build industrial and manufacturing units, recent Barbour ABS data shows that planning applications for factory construction in the North West increased by an impressive 44% in 2014 and are posed to hit similar levels in 2015.
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