Construction News Articles
We are pleased to announce that Burdens have formed a strategic partnership with Midland Construction Supplies (MCS) Ltd. MCS are an exciting young business specialising in the supply of construction accessories to the construction industry in general but in particular specialist concreting contractors.
Burdens Concrete Accessories are a range of essential steel reinforcement accessories and associated products for the construction industry.
On Monday 12th November work started on the long awaited boathouse extension to the SARA (Severn Area Rescue Association) Chepstow Rescue Station. When the £300,000 project is complete it will enable SARA to keep its front-line rescue boats and emergency response vehicles under one roof, thus improving emergency response times and equipment reliability as well as providing a purpose built classroom for community awareness of water safety on the dangerous River Severn and estuary.
New or reinstated footpath construction typically requires a granular sub base layer to help the stability of the overall construction. The Adawall Soil Stabiliser additive reinforces excavated soil to provide a reinforced sub base typically without the need for outsourced aggregates.
The Adawall Liquid Waterproofer is a bitumen paint solution which is ideally suited for waterproofing and the weather protection of steelwork and concrete. It also provides a corrosion resistant coating helping to increase the life span of the materials it protects.
Interserve's Dubai associate company Khansaheb Civil Engineering has nailed a £140 million infrastructure contract for 2,000 homes in Dubai. The contract was awarded by property giant Nakheel and is phase one of the Al Furjan project, which will provide over 4,000 homes in four communities.
Mark Rigby, Director of T H White Crane Division and Wolfgang Pitz, Chief Marketing Officer for Palfinger Cranes, recently sent out a very special invitation. The invited high-ranking representatives from Burdens Limited, based in Bristol, to the Palfinger plant in Lengau, Austria, to present them with a commemorative crane fresh from the factory floor. It was the 200th Palfinger crane that Burdens added to their fleet of vehicles. The model selected was a PK 15500 Performance.
Carillion’s joint venture businesses in the Middle East have negotiated three new contracts worth approximately £205 million, of which Carillion’s share of the revenues generated will be some £113 million.
Durisol’s fast, green and cost-effective wall forming blocks are at the heart of a new community project in Cambridgeshire. The innovative ‘dry stack’ Durisol blocks have been used to construct exterior and interior walls of a new single-storey community centre in Lode.
