Category: Featured
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Trader Joe’s continues its store growth zeal
Just four months into 2025, Trader Joe’s looks poised to rapidly expand its number of stores. Earlier in April, the specialty grocer opened two locations — one in Seattle and another in Murfreesboro, Tennessee — marking its first additions to its store fleet so far this year. Trader Joe’s announced on April 7 plans for…
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April 2025: Contractors report their latest awards
Contractors thrive on new business and opportunities, living for the moment when a potential project becomes reality. After completing all the hard work of estimating, preparing and presenting a bid, there’s nothing quite like getting that call from a client to say the job is yours. Here, Construction Dive tracks the top contract wins announced…
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Hydrogen diggers can now use UK roads
JCB chairman, Anthony Bamford, called the news “historic”. He met the Future of Roads minister, Lilian Greenwood MP, who signed the statutory instrument allowing the government to make the changes to the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 for this provision. View the original article and our Inspiration here
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Do we have the skills for a retrofit revolution?
The UK’s ambitious target to reach net zero by 2050 requires significant change across the construction industry. The retrofit of historic building stock will undoubtedly play a pivotal role in helping to improve energy efficiency and reduce carbon. But against the backdrop of a growing skills shortage, will challenges across the construction workforce hinder the…
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Let’s address construction’s evolving skills challenge
Industry-led Sector Skills Plans will help employers meet current and future skills demands. The construction industry is at a pivotal moment, with the government working toward ambitious homebuilding targets and investing in large infrastructure projects – such as the £9 billion Lower Thames Crossing and Luton Airport expansion schemes, respectively approved in March and April…
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Sustainability skills initiative highlights career pathways for students
The Built Environment Schools Trust (BE Schools Trust) is partnering with the Supply Chain Sustainability School to launch a nationwide education initiative. The new programme gives young people access to free, industry-accredited sustainability training – delivered directly through the Supply Chain Sustainability School’s digital platform. The collaboration supports the creation of BE Sustainable after-school clubs…
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Repairing Our 150 Year Old Garage (An Update) – We Have Walls Again!
I shouldn’t be so excited about this, it’s just a garage and I don’t even like to drive or know what my own car looks like in a full parking lot (it’s called “car blindness,” and yes, I have gotten in many similar cars that aren’t mine). But as someone who owns probably 19 hammers…
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NASCAR Relies On Road Sweepers For Safety And Performance
Every year, more than 100,000 people attend the 36 official NASCAR races around the country. The popularity of the motor-sport has grown significantly over the last decade, and each individual race becomes a sort of multi-day event where fans congregate to, not just watch the race, but hang out, enjoy tail-gaiting, swap stories, and find…
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Building the Future: Inside China’s Cutting-Edge Construction Innovations
In a recent conversation with three experts from the China Construction Third Engineering Bureau, Mr. Pei Yijun, Dr. Yang Hui, and Ms. Liu Jiao, I had the opportunity to explore two breakthrough innovations that are reshaping high-rise construction and building services integration in China. The two technologies we discussed were the Intelligent Micro Bump Jacking…
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BBC bosses tell Evan Davis to quit heat pump podcast claiming it was too ‘political’
The BBC has brought an abrupt end to The Happy Heat Pump Podcast, due to BBC concerns over “public controversy”, the show’s host Evan Davis says. Evan Davis and Bean Beanland, the show’s joint hosts announced the cancellation in their final episode, expressing disappointment and concern over the growing politicisation of environmental technologies like heat…