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Company fined after brickies fall from height

A construction company has been fined £200k following an incident where three bricklayers fell from height suffering serious injuries. North Somerset Magistrates’ Court heard how,...

Former manager ordered to pay back £6K after defrauding scaffolding firm

A former branch manager at MG Scaffolding has been ordered to pay back all the money he gained from fraudulently selling scrap metal. The 34-year-old...

2020 saw construction charity deliver nearly £1.3M in charity giving

The Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity has just released its 2020 Impact Report which demonstrates the vital support they provided in 2020. Against the backdrop of...

Scaffolding Association publishes Clean Air Zone Tracker

The Scaffolding Association aims to help its members and the wider industry after publishing a first-of-its-kind Clean Air Zone Tracker The UK's largest scaffolding...

Scaffolding Robot ‘Liftbot’ Raises $5M in Further Funding

Munich based KEWAZO has raised a further $5 million in investment from a leading investor in Silicon Valley Kewazo has today announced that venture capitalists...

Scaffolding industry urged to join in charity ‘Big Brew’

The scaffolding industry is being urged to get involved with the ‘Big Brew’ – a new national campaign to highlight the mental health crisis...

Lyndon SGB provides access solutions on former steelworks site

Teams from Lyndon SGB's Leeds branch are busy supplying complex scaffolding and access solutions on a landmark modern construction project in Leeds city centre The...

UK Construction job vacancies continue to reach new record levels

Official figures show an improving picture for the UK jobs market with vacancies hitting new record levels The number of job vacancies available in the...

Latest construction output statistics offers ‘little comfort’ to the sector

The Scaffolding Association says the latest construction output statistics offer little comfort to the sector The latest data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS)...

Exclusive: NASC speaks out on Scaffolder Shortages

The National Access and Scaffolding Confederation (NASC) has spoken out about the growing concern for shortages of qualified scaffolders after a recent survey found...

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