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...

Since the new Government took the reins of power, many in the house building industry are praising its actions to help businesses. Indeed, the Federation of Small Businesses has welcomed moves to increase the Entrepreneurs Relief threshold to £5 million from £2 million...

Plastic Surgeon's IT Manager Ross Gardner, reports on the latest IT developments to the bespoke Mobile Finisher software and the new VisibilITy online reporting system...

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...