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Precast Concrete Lintels: The Ultimate Guide to Strength, Durability & Installation

UK Construction Blog

Available in various types (standard prestressed, high strength and fair-faced options) and sizes (widths from 100mm to 215mm and lengths from 600mm to 3000mm), these lintels can accommodate diverse building requirements. What Are Precast Concrete Lintels?

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Competition watchdog to probe road and rail construction

The Construction Index

Building on evidence collected so far, the review will focus on: Ensuring public authorities access and examine the right information to make well-reasoned decisions when procuring roads and railways. We look forward to working to support this study.”

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Strong profit growth for Graham

The Construction Index

New contract awards during the year included the £90m D3 deep-water terminal for Belfast Harbour Commissioners and several school building projects for the Department of Education’s school rebuilding programme. The latter was one of the first high rise buildings to achieve Gateway 2 approval from the Building Safety Regulator.

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Management restructure at Reds10

The Construction Index

Thrive-AI applies machine learning to help clients operate their buildings more efficiently, improve user experience, reduce energy consumption and optimise the lifespan of critical assets. It’s a great business and gives Thrive-AI and Reds10 the opportunity to transform the use and operation of buildings for our customers.”

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Acivico appoints new managing director

The Construction Index

Acivico was established in 2012 on the transfer of Birmingham City Council’s building control service and other statutory functions. Morrissey joins Acivico from HTS Group Ltd (formerly Harlow Trading Services), the building and grounds maintenance business of Harlow Council in Essex, where he was managing director. ““I’m

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Foreign speculators soften Barratt Redrow sales

The Construction Index

We remain confident in our medium-term ambition to deliver 22,000 high-quality homes a year, and in the long-term demand for our high-quality homes." Barratt clearly has strong fundamentals in place, but like the rest of the sector, it is constrained by forces beyond its control.

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The Evolution of Bridge Construction: Safer, Faster, Smarter

Civil + Structural Engineer

With a more optimized process, quality control, and automation, components can be produced faster than other systems on a construction site. As part of the project, crews had to build the APM tracks over operational roadways with little to no disruption to traffic, which meant traditional falsework methods could not be utilized.