Does offsite construction provide a solution to supply chain and labour shortages?
Analysis: Offsite construction and MMC can deliver significant efficiency gains, yet it represents only a fraction of builds delivered in the UK each year. Paul Stevens, Commercial Director, Acorn Aluminium, discusses.
Nuclear Option
In Review: Hinckley Point C – Workers Accommodation Campuses
Acorn Aluminium wins £1.6million contract with Torsion
Acorn Aluminium has been awarded the contract for windows, curtain walling and doors, on Torsion Group’s £65million Saxton Lane development in the centre of Leeds.
Student experience
In Review: Vita Student Nottingham
Acorn Aluminium wins major sub-contract on Kier-led Essex enterprise project
Acorn Aluminium has been awarded the contract for windows and curtain walling on Kier’s £15million Enterprise Centre Development at the Horizon 120 business park.
Acorn appointed for BREEAM top rated school development
Acorn Aluminium has been awarded the contract for windows and curtain walling on Galliford Try’s new build school development for Birmingham Ormiston Academy (BOA).
Pursuit of Excellence
In Review: Prince Albert High School, Perry Barr, Birmingham
The death of Zoom?
Analysis: Is digital working COVID-19’s lasting legacy?
Indemnity shortfall could leave main contractors carrying the can
Sub-contractors are switching to lower levels of professional cover post-delivery, leaving main contractors exposed for large costs if things go wrong. Professional indemnity insurance is written on a claims-made basis, which means that the policy held by a company at the time a claim is made deals with it – not the policy that was […]
Freight train
In Review: Royal Mail National Distribution Centre, Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal, Northamptonshire.