BSIF Safety Awards 2010 launched
Award-winning off-site construction specialist and Portakabin subsidiary, Yorkon, has completed a new NHS day treatment centre at Devizes in Wiltshire on time and on budget.
Portakabin, the UK’s leading education modular building specialist, has launched a new decant school solution to provide interim teaching accommodation to support the Building Schools for the Future initiative and the Primary Capital Programme.
Despite the downturn, St.Helens is a rapidly developing area in the North West of England, so it comes as no surprise that the supporting Chamber of Commerce has the largest membership in the UK.
Of all of the elements that collectively form a domestic dwelling, the external envelope experiences the widest range of unfavourable influences, such as extremes of temperature, wind, rain, fog, ultra-violet radiation, mechanical damage and possible microbiological attack in the form of fungal or algal growths.
A new GP surgery for Cockermouth, serving 15,000 patients, was delivered and completed by Portakabin in just 15 days following the Cumbrian floods.
Since its arrival onto the market a few years ago the electronic cigarette has been responsible for millions of smokers around the world quitting the habit of a lifetime. Now, the latest and improved version from specialists Switch Smoker (www.switchsmoker.com) is now available in the UK.
The HSE has set out a simple three-tier hierarchy in the WAHR (WAH Regulations) for managing work at height. As part of this, it recommends that where duty holders cannot eliminate the risk of a fall, they should use work equipment or other measures to minimise the distance and consequences of a fall should one [...]
