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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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Where HS2 went wrong

The Construction Index

It sets out how the politicians in a hurry to build the world’s best and fastest railway meant that cost control went out of the window and gold plating ran riot. The delivery of the HS2 programme has been dominated and driven by the desire to build the best. In my view this has been evident on HS2.

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Competition watchdog to probe road and rail construction

The Construction Index

The market study will examine whether there are opportunities to improve how the public sector and industry work together, for example through improvements to public procurement, so more cost-effective infrastructure can be built in support of the government’s growth mission.

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Eight Brighton tower blocks to come down

The Construction Index

Structural surveys last year found that eight of the council’s large panel system (LPS) buildings no longer meet current safety standards for withstanding a collapse in the case of an explosion or large fire. We recognise that these buildings have happy memories, in some cases for three generations of families. Got a story?

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Government convenes panel for insulation reforms

The Construction Index

However, the preliminary evidence from these audits suggests that a majority of properties that have had solid wall insulation measures under these schemes have not had these installed to the appropriate standard. This scale of non-compliance is unacceptable and consumers will understandably be concerned.”

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Preparing Independent Government Estimates – IGEs , IGCEs

Job Order Contracting

Unfortunately, the process is largely done inappropriately and without cost transparency or visibility, and rarely is verifiable. Most Independent Government Cost Estimates are Not Well Documented. This has lead to the vast major of construction cost estimates (80% or more) being inaccurate. FAR 36.203.

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DoD FSRM, BUILDER SMS and the LEGACY of Wasteful Politics

Job Order Contracting

Zero credible cost visibility and inability to enable cost management… another instance of Government attempt to compete with the private sector and lack of capable and continuous accountable leadership. There are specialized SMS modules, such as BUILDER (buildings), RAILER (rails), ROOFER (roofs), and PAVER (pavements).