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As the UK continues to open up after a year of lockdowns and other restrictions, the construction industry has been at the forefront of the economic recovery with activity levels at a seven-year high.
Soaring demand has strained the availability of a number of key materials, with some experiencing double-digit inflation.
Earlier this year, the UK Government asked the Construction Leadership Council to monitor the situation, which saw it set up the Products Availability taskforce. In the months since it was founded, it has added more and more items to its list of products facing constraints.
Construction News looks at how some key materials have been affected and how the situation could develop in the coming months.
Planning key for electric car charging stations - Canadian Architect
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On some days Mark Marmer’s job is a combination of detective and problem solver.
“So what’s involved to be able to install EV chargers? Just a thing with two wires and you hook it up right? Unfortunately, it is definitely not that simple,” says Marmer, President of Signature Electric and member of the Electrical Contractors Association of Ontario.
As more Ontarians transition to electric cars, high rise residential and business properties are going to need electric charging stations and they are going to need expert advice to ensure their investment is managed correctly and safely.
THE year 1862 and before Tower Bridge and the Natural History Museum was built in London John Dicks opens up a gas fitting and brass finishers shop called J. Dick and Co at 5 Jewry Street in Winchester and it’s lavishly adorned with the latest gas fittings and chandeliers from London. The business grows swiftly as they offer gas fitting installation, wrought iron and lead work services. In 1863 Dicks illuminated the exterior some of the prominent buildings by gas light in the city like the Guildhall, Westgate, Market House and Queen Anne’s statue. By 1886 the business moved to 149 High Street as they had already acquired workshops in Silver Hill and by now were installing water systems into houses by putting pumps in their wells and piping the water into their homes. By the turn of the century John Dicks had died and his two sons Philip and John are now running the business and are installing telephones, speaking tubes in offices and designing and installing call alarm syste
Wentworth residents want building defects repaired before they move back in
By Zainul Dawood
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Durban – A MEETING will be held on Thursday with a group of residents in Wentworth who are refusing to move into their refurbished apartments until all defects are repaired.
The provincial Department of Human Settlements had relocated the 10 families to a decanting unit while their block of flats in Croton Road was being renovated. The units were completed in mid-November. Today, community leaders are expected to address the residents and find an amicable solution.
On Friday, the department issued a notice to the tenants to vacate the decanting units and move back into their residential units because they were in violation of a lease agreement.