With more and more people choosing the sustainable route of repairing rather than replacing damaged construction materials, it is inevitable that they are going to need the services of companies such as Plastic Surgeon...

Just last month, the Government axed the Building Schools for the Future initiative, which Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, described as “bureaucratic and wasteful.”...

One of Plastic Surgeon’s established contractor clients has called on the snagging and repair specialist to help address a number of specialist tasks which required rectification in the final run up to the handover of a new school building in the North West built under the BSF Pathfinder programme...

When accidental damage occurs for more and more facilities managers responsible for healthcare properties it’s Plastic Surgeon to the rescue. Founded in 1985, the Devon-based company is now the UK’s largest and only national provider of cosmetic repairs - indoors and out...
 

We have all heard that a company’s net income or loss is called the ‘bottom line,’ because it is typically found on the last line of a business’s income statement. It can also be used for emphasis, to make a point...

Bruce Meechan (B.Sc. Civ. Eng.), a leading technical journalist and Editor of MMC Magazine, talks to Hayley Gilmour, a project quantity surveyor for BAM, one of the UK’s most forward thinking building contractors about the issues of waste management and snagging for handover...

The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) is to cut £34 million spending on the UK’s low carbon technology programme and, while I see this as possibly short-sighted, I think we all realise that the deficit has to be reduced somehow...

The UK spends less on waste management than other European countries who are recycling significant amounts of municipal waste. In fact, we pay around 50 pence per person per week on this and recover just 22% of household waste...

We at Plastic Surgeon would like to congratulate two of our customers who are featured in the top 25 of The Sunday Times Green List 2010. The newspaper’s annual competition aims to find companies at the cutting edge of improving corporate environmental performance...

Already recognised as the foremost specialist in executing repairs and snagging for the construction industry, Plastic Surgeon is continuing to expand its range of services through the development of new techniques and the purchase of sophisticated new equipment...

Assembly Square is an office development by Bam Construction on Cardiff Bay, where the aggressive saline atmosphere had led to a marine paint finish being specified for all of the external metal fire doors...

Plastic Surgeon is continuing to help its clients to reduce their landfill bills, saving them £104,208 in landfill taxes alone (excluding VAT) last year by preventing 78,925 items from going to waste thanks to its ‘don’t skip it, fix it’ policy...

High street giant, Marks & Spencer, has outlined plans to become the UK’s most sustainable retailer by 2015 as part of its so called Plan A programme. Among 80 commitments added to the original 100 outlined in 2007 are pledges to cease sending operational and construction waste to landfill...

Fine finishing company, Plastic Surgeon Ltd, has been called in to rectify damage to internal building components at Link62 Data Centre, a huge warehouse facility which will be used to store digital information...
 

For some of our colleagues in the construction industry it may seem a little soon to be focussing on problems that arise out of recovery, but for those of us who have survived previous recessions, there certain situations which appear cyclical...

Working in the building and construction industry we need to constantly innovate to keep pace with the latest developments in interior and exterior surfaces. At our head office in Devon, our research centre is constantly developing new repair techniques...

We regularly encounter the same causes of damage to the same surfaces, the type of damage that happens so easily, usually resulting in a few choice words. We’ll be compiling a ‘top 5’ of the regular offenders in each issue...

Damage on a busy site is costly. Repairing rather than replacing can save money, time, landfill and most importantly your reputation. Big or small, ceramic or glass, metal, plastic, stone or wood – these are the top ten items we’ve repaired so far this year...

The Link62 Data Centre is a huge warehouse facility, approximately the size of 12 football pitches which has been constructed by Laing O’Rourke. A large number of interlocking internal cladding panels with a highly reflective paint finish to the steel became damaged...

EON set Plastic Surgeon a challenge to finish 40 10m tall lampposts to an exacting metallic finish. Clearly painting them using traditional hand techniques was not an option...

A recent assignment for Plastic Surgeon was caused by vandalism, where an intruder attacked four doors in a medical research building.

The contract focused on the new Biomedical Building at Strathclyde University...

News that six more local authorities across England have joined the Building Schools for the Future programme and will share nearly £420 million of Government investment presents a real opportunity for sustainability principals to be applied by the application of smart ‘’Don’t skip -it fix it‘’ processes...

As more local authorities join the BSF programme, Plastic Surgeon, provider of cosmetic building repairs, has stressed the opportunity for projects to be more sustainable by repairing, not replacing.

News that six more local authorities have joined the Building Schools for the Future programme and will share nearly £420 million of Government investment presents a real opportunity for sustainability principals to be applied by the application of smart ‘Don’t skip it – fix it’ processes...

The repair specialist, Plastic Surgeon, has introduced a new technique for repairing reconstituted or wet-cast stone. Such manufactured masonry is commonplace on modern construction projects, taking the place of more expensive natural quarried stone, and offering consistent strength...

Building involves too many trades for contracts or refurbs to go smoothly, and the closer you get to completion, the more hectic it becomes, and the more likely that one trade will damage another’s work. And that tradesmen’s eyes will be increasingly dim when it comes to the chips, scuffs, scratches and knocks....

While the papers and news broadcasts have been full for the last fortnight, relating stories of world leaders and environmental campaigners having meetings through the night to hammer out a deal at the Copenhagen Climate Summit, Plastic Surgeon has been keeping up its own round-the-clock efforts to save the planet.

Generating a blog definitely brings a new perspective to everyday life and should, I think, repeatedly pose the question: are the matters and meanderings that I’m banging on about really of any interest to the people out there surfing the ‘net.

Calls this week for schoolchildren to begin receiving careers advice from the age of seven met with predictably mixed reactions from parents, teachers, and the wider public; comments varying from cautiously welcoming the initiative, to saying it’s too young or how can it be shoe-horned into an already over-crowded curriculum?

A huge mural covering one entire wall of a swimming pool building at a hotel on the English Riviera has been the subject of a sensitive repair contract carried out by Plastic Surgeon, a specialist in cosmetic repair for clients across the construction sector.

The MMC agenda may be moving sections of the building industry away from some of the more inefficient practices of the past, but new legislation now means that controlling waste is not only desirable on environmental grounds, but actually becomes a financial necessity. And therefore repairing damaged products...

Things could be hotting up for us at Plastic Surgeon - the Olympic Delivery Authority has just signed up to WRAP’s (Waste & Resources Action Programme) Construction Commitments: Halving Waste to Landfill initiative. Which could mean that we will get involved with the Olympic scheme, seeing that we do a lot of repair work...

The upsurge in off-site manufacturing, or Modern Methods of Construction as it is commonly referred to, has served to highlight what a problematic element to the building process, kitchens and bathrooms represent.

The Butlins holiday group has opened a new spa hotel at its site in Bognor Regis with the repair specialist, Plastic Surgeon, playing a full part in the final preparations for the grand opening this summer at which the famous seaside resort’s mayor officiated.

Using kitchen and bathroom pods is one means of ensuring minimum defects at a building’s handover, but for those choosing to fit-out such rooms in-situ, dealing with a variety of physical imperfections remains a financial and logistical burden. Rob Mouser puts forward the case for repair as opposed to replacement.

The leading exhibition for the construction industry, Interbuild is the place for bringing together leading suppliers of building materials, equipment and services face-to-face with clients and buyers from across the UK...