Category: Featured
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Manchester contractor moves to employee ownership
Emanuel Whittaker has announced its transition to an employee ownership trust (EOT) after 188 years in business. Since 1837, the Oldham-based firm has delivered significant projects across Greater Manchester, from social housing to regeneration schemes. EOTs are an initiative launched by the government in 2014, under which a company’s employees own, or have the right to…
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4 Major Takeaways From The IGNITE Construction Summit 2025
The IGNITE Construction Summit will always have an important place in my life, not just as the Editor-in-Chief of Pavement Maintenance, but because it was the firs place I started to build my own relationships with people in the industry. For the first few months I was in this job, all the relationships with blacktop…
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Applying AI on construction jobsites: Where it actually delivers value
Construction teams don’t need another tool that promises everything and delivers friction. They need AI that fits how work actually gets done, supporting the daily rhythms of field coordination, cost tracking and project oversight without adding complexity. The gap between AI’s potential and construction’s reality isn’t about the technology. It’s about alignment. Most AI tools…
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Gretchen’s DIY Holiday Decorations And Other Festive Craft Ideas
On a scale of 1-10, I love decorating for the Christmas/holiday season about a 7–generally enthusiastic about the idea of adding a fresh hit of festive decor to my home for a special few months, but often discouraged by the price tag or appearance of in-store offerings (you will simply NEVER catch me with a…
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Gretchen’s DIY Holiday Decorations And Other Festive Craft Ideas
On a scale of 1-10, I love decorating for the Christmas/holiday season about a 7–generally enthusiastic about the idea of adding a fresh hit of festive decor to my home for a special few months, but often discouraged by the price tag or appearance of in-store offerings (you will simply NEVER catch me with a…
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Nominations Open | For Construction Pros
Nominations are open for Pavement Maintenance & Reconstruction’s 2026 Top Contractor award, which spotlights the annual top contractors in the pavement, sealcoating, striping, and pavement repair markets. This survey of paving and pavement maintenance contractors helps develop an objective and verifiable listing in each of these five industry segments. To do that, we need to…
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Nominations Open for 2026 Top Contractor Award
Nominations are open for Pavement Maintenance & Reconstruction’s 2026 Top Contractor award, which spotlights the annual top contractors in the pavement, sealcoating, striping, and pavement repair markets. This survey of paving and pavement maintenance contractors helps develop an objective and verifiable listing in each of these five industry segments. To do that, we need to…
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McLaren kicks off main works at Wrexham’s stadium
McLaren Construction has broken ground on the redevelopment of the Kop stand at Wrexham AFC’s stadium, StōK Cae Ras. The new stand, set for completion during the 2026/27 season, will restore the stadium to a four-sided configuration, increasing capacity to just over 18,000. McLaren was appointed to the project under a pre-construction services agreement earlier…
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Lidl is selling power tools, but are they less on Amazon?
When Arnold Schwarzenegger first started demonstrating Lidl’s power tools a while back, you couldn’t help but notice. And Lidl’s reputation for offering quality at low prices made this partnership a hard-to-ignore combination. The Terminator actor certainly packed a punch armed with his Lidl chainsaw, cutting muscles into a wooden sculpture of himself in their advert,…
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Mould in loft? Here’s how to solve the issue fast
Finding mould in your loft can be pretty alarming, especially if this is a space you rely on to store precious belongings or items such as Christmas decorations or out of season clothing – things you really don’t want to pull out and find covered in the stuff. While there are plenty of mould removal…