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Amy Farr Chartered safety practitioner Amy Farr has moved to Workman from Calford Seaden. At Workman her role is to help the 120-strong building consultancy team achieve compliance on behalf of clients, many of whom have become the principal accountable person (PAP) under the Building Safety Act (BSA), legally obliged to ensure that fire and

Image of Acheson’s premises in Dorset from Google Streetview Richard Lewis and Alistair Wardell of Grant Thornton UK LLP were appointed as joint administrators of Acheson Construction Limited on 18th February 2025. The administrators laid off 40 of the company’s 48 staff immediately. The remainder are expected to be made redundant in the coming weeks

It is well-established that value added tax is chargeable on repair, refurbishment and maintenance building works but no on new-build works. The question is: if you have put up non-compliant cladding and return several years later to replace it, does that count as repairs or just snagging? HM Revenue & Customs has now clarified the

DLH’s new five-axle Liebherr LTM 1230-5.1 DLH Lifting Services owner/director Terry Humphries sold a minority stake in his business – more than 25% but less than 50% – to Reds10 Modular in December. The investment has helped the crane hire company add two new Liebherr all-terrain machines to its fleet, taking delivery of a 60-tonne

Prestige Aggregates was established in 2013 by Graham Lambert Prestige Aggregates hit a cash flow crisis at the end of 2024, culminating in filing a notice of intention to appoint an administrator on 10th February. Accountancy firm PKF Smith Cooper’s business recovery and restructuring team is supporting Prestige through the process. Prestige Aggregates, set up

Duncan Rudall Duncan Rudall took over from the long-serving Howard Button as NFDC chief executive in June 2023. Since then he has spent much time away from home and travelling on behalf of the federation. However, with his wife’s cancer treatment, he has decided that he needs to spend more time at home with his

Thurston and Storplan are both owned by investment company HLD Group Wakefield-based Thurston Group has taken over Storplan’s 1,900 sqm manufacturing facility in York, providing additional fabrication capacity.  Storplan, established in 2000,  designs and manufactures  cold rolled steel mezzanine floors, shelving, racking, partitioning and steel staircases for warehouses. Thurston and Storplan are both owned by

The Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, which was itself was among organisations culpable for the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire, has effectively banned products used in the tower’s refurbishment from being used again on building projects in the borough. One such supplier, Siderise Insulation, believes it should not be included in this ban and has