It’s now an established fact that environmental noise pollution contributes to a range of adverse health outcomes including heart disease and premature death. Yet noise pollution remains a largely neglected topic, poorly understood and poorly regulated. This was the view of a recent report by the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee which counts […]Read More
It’s 42 years since Arxada’s Andy Hodge started out in the timber industry as a management trainee with the Bridgewater- based branch of Mallinson-Denny, and in that time change has been constant. In that time Andy has become one of the most recognised faces in timber and wood treatment circles and it’s no surprise given […]Read More
Whilst most of the construction industry has adopted robust working practices for reducing the risk of service strikes, it seems fencing installation is often lagging behind, with contractors often leaving their safety to chance. For the last 30 years, my career as a utility surveyor has been the locating, surveying and mapping of subterranean utilities and infrastructure. With […]Read More
The world was a very different place when the very first issue of Fencing News rolled off the printing press back in 1981! Margaret Thatcher was PM, Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, had finally been apprehended and Bryan Robson became the UK’s most expensive footballer, moving fromWest Brom to Manchester United for £1.5 million. How […]Read More
Two heads are better than one, so goes the adage and that could certainly be said about twins Hamish and Bruce Sinclair. The duo, based at Latheronwheel and Dunbeath on the Caithness coast around 20 miles south of Wick, have been installing fencing in this rugged, treeless terrain for almost 40 years. It takes hard […]Read More
For many years we have built up the profile of our UC4 Pro-post products and the treatment continues to be hugely successful. We knew that, by using slow-grown redwood pine, kiln dried carefully and applying a quality preservative treatment, we had a product that would last, and that has certainlyproved to be the case. More […]Read More
Going above and beyond the call of duty is a specialism for New Zealand-based fencing contractor Phil Cornelius. Phil, who runs CPC Fencing Ltd with wife Donna, operates right across Northland, the most northerly province in New Zealand not far from Auckland. Both are also executive board members of the Fencing Contractors Association of New […]Read More
While we have previously looked in detail at the role that finger trap guards can play in mitigating the risk of injury due to the gap between the post and the hang stile of a swing gate, in this issue we take a look at the potential dangers associated with gaps in general. When looking […]Read More
Construction is about to start on a new €10M state-of-the-art manufacturing facility at Heras’s head office in the Netherlands – which will initially produce sliding, swing and bi-fold gates that will be bound for the UK market as early as autumn next year. The company – which is Europe’s leading end-to-end supplier of permanent and […]Read More
· 30.4% of texts to mental health helpline for construction workers are from tradespeople thinking about ending their own lives. · The suicide rate amongst construction workers has risen for the fifth year in a row. · Nearly half (44.2%) of builders and contractors using the text service do so during the working day. · Fridays are the busiest […]Read More
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