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Facilities management group OCS has sold its Environmental Services business to Lexia Solutions Group....

A London roofing company has been fined £160,000 plus costs after a worker fell two storeys onto a concrete floor....

The US manufacturer of the cladding panels used to refurbish Grenfell Tower has said that it will no longer make the product available for high-rise buildings....

Construction workers representatives have expressed concern that newly appointed Brexit minister Steve Baker wants to see the UK have softer asbestos laws....

Stock-market listed brickmaker Michelmersh has bought out Barnsley-based Carlton Main Brickworks for £31.2m....

The number of high rise buildings from which cladding samples have failed a combustibility test at the Building Research Establishment is now 60 across 25 local authority areas....

Mortar and coatings manufacturer Flexcrete Technologies Limited has a new elastomeric, intermediate crack-bridging filler and coating for use on concrete structures and buildings where enhanced cracking-bridging properties are required....

Wythenshawe Community Housing Group (WCHG) working with the Greater Manchester Fire service is taking down flammable cladding from its Village 135 development....

Birmingham City Council his planning to fit sprinkler systems and other fire suppression measures to its residential tower blocks....

The number of visits made by Health & Safety Executive inspectors to construction sites in Great Britain has fallen by 14% in 12 months....