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HSE has issued guidance making dry cutting of engineered stone illegal and demanding the use of lower silica content materials, pointing to the risk of silicosis, following the deaths of two workers in the sector.Read Full Article: The Construction Index

Fiona Howie, chief executive of the Town and Country Planning Association, has moved to Cratus Group, where she is now director of communities and placemaking.Read Full Article: The Construction Index

Members of the GMB union at Crane BS&U, part of the Process Flow Technologies division of US-owned Crane Co, have started strike action in Hitchin.Read Full Article: The Construction Index

Construction materials distribution and construction services business Fox Group has acquired surfacing specialist DSD Construction and concrete supplier Moore Readymix, backed by investor Stellex Capital Management ,who say they are aiming to build a circular economy...

The Asbestos Testing and Consultancy Association, ATaC, has joined with apprenticeships provider Tiro to launch two revised asbestos programmes.Read Full Article: The Construction Index

David Campbell has been appointed national director of civil engineering at consultancy Harley Haddow.Read Full Article: The Construction Index

This year's CECE Congress will be hosted in London by the CEA, at the IET's Savoy Place building.Read Full Article: The Construction Index

Willow Services (Southern) Ltd has pleaded guilty to breaching the work at height regulations, after a roofer fell through an unprotected loft hatch, suffering life changing injuries.Read Full Article: The Construction Index

HS2 has announced that its depot at Washwood Heath will be built by Taylor Woodrow Infrastructure Ltd and Aureos Rail Ltd (TWA JV). Read Full Article: The Construction Index

Robertson Partnership Homes has completed work on 58 affordable homes in Glenrothes for Fife Council.Read Full Article: The Construction Index

Developer Henry Boot PLC has announced that Edward Hutchinson will succeed Tim Roberts as its CEO.Read Full Article: The Construction Index

A group of Ukrainian academics and students have toured UK universities, as they develop plans for the rebuilding of the country's leading university, destroyed in Russia's expanded invasion of the country.Read Full Article: The Construction Index