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This has got disaster written all over it
We don鈥檛 know what鈥檚 worse - the scrappy paint job or the terrifyingly flimsy 鈥渟caffolding鈥� these contractors are balancing on. Thanks to Jas Benning for this snap of this 鈥渄omestic house in Essex鈥�.
Balfour Beatty launches safety investigation after incident earlier this month
William Burkitt of Stiles Harold Williams Partnership sent this picture of a man who has obviously decided that one ladder is not enough
鈥淣ot only is the plank precariously balanced but there is also a significant fall as the windmill is perched above a rocky outcrop,鈥� notes Clive Woodford, who took this photo while on holiday in Crete.
Despite decades of technical advances and a revolution in technology, the benefits have not flowed through to improved productivity, says聽Paul Ruddick, chairman and founder of Reds10
To scale up, it needed outside investment and there was only one place it was coming from, writes Dave Rogers
The sector needs to educate its construction partners to create a sustainable supply chain that helps achieve net zero targets and manages the transition of UK suppliers to low carbon UK steel production, says Jonathan Davis, preconstruction technical director at聽William Hare
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