JCB has been honoured for innovation and export sales growth with three Queen’s Awards for Enterprise. Winning its first Queen’s Awards is JCB Power Systems, producer of the engine which powered the J ...

 JCB is donating a 3CX backhoe loader worth $100,000 to help rescue and clear-up operations in Ecuador, which was hit by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake on Saturday, resulting in the deaths of at least 570 ...

The Building and Allied Trades Joint Industrial Council (BATJIC) has agreed a two year deal involving a 5% pay rise over two years. The announcement follows the successful conclusion of negotiations b ...

The public image of the UK builder, plumber or electrician is woefully out of date, according to a new report by TrustMark, the only Government-endorsed ‘find a tradesperson’ scheme for all trades in ...

The CIOB has opened an ideas fund for construction research, putting £50k worth of grants up for grabs. Original ideas are being backed by the Chartered Institute of Building Bowen Jenkins Legacy Rese ...

Over 45,000 new homebuilding workers will be trained by 2019 to help tackle the nation’s housing shortage through a £2.7 million initiative announced today by the Construction Industry Training Board ...

Nottingham based Creative and CRM agency, Diversity, has welcomed new EU legislation known as Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), which has been introduced to help resolve disputes between homeowner ...

Construction United plans to dispel the often wrong image of "low wages, low prospects, low education and dirty work" that continues to follow the construction industry. At a time when the sector shou ...

Construction workers are to be urged to be ‘sun aware’ through SMS messages. Seeing builders stripped to the waist as they work on construction sites in the summer could be a thing of the past, thanks ...

Morganstone gave one family a tremendous helping hand whilst their son was away in hospital with a rare illness. After spending his Christmas in a sterile bubble at a hospital in Newcastle, Macsen Oat ...

Industry figures react to the Chancellor’s announcements of “long term solutions to long term projects”. These included funds allocated to major infrastructure projects such as Crossrail 2, HS3 and a ...

 More than half (51 per cent) of UK construction firms say transport-related delays are frequently impacting upon projects, research has revealed. Of those, 9 per cent say all projects are affected an ...

A pan-industry approach to controlling mineral dust in the workplace could help to reduce the UK’s occupational cancer burden, according to a global safety and health body. Around 800 people in Britai ...