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Educators Place the Spotlight on Modular Construction

GCP Applied Technologies

The educators at Weitz Construction Academy at Seminole Ridge High School in Loxahatchee, Florida have been practicing modular construction long before it became popular. For over eight years, the leading global provider of building materials has partnered with the Academy to provide needed products and educate their students.

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Get There Florida: The Sunshine State’s New Workforce Education Initiative

Business Facilities

Get There Florida is a new workforce education initiative aimed at raising awareness of short-term but high-value career and technical education programs. Read: Get There Florida: The Sunshine State’s New Workforce Education Initiative at BusinessFacilities.com.

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Work stops on MAC education job

Construction Enquirer

Work has stopped on a £5m education job in Birmingham being built by MAC Group after the contractor’s main Irish operation sought protection from its creditors. Site sources told the Enquirer work has stopped on its job to build a new educational facility at the Joseph Chamberlain College site in Birmingham.

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New collaborative framework expected for School Rebuilding Programme

Construction Law

The Department for Education (DoE) is to launch a new collaborative contractor framework to speed up delivery of projects under its flagship School Rebuilding Programme. To read more of this and every other news story on this site, please log in with your Construction Law membership account details. See the panel to the right.

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Galliford Try signs £39m North East academy deal

Construction Enquirer

Galliford Try has signed its first contract under the new Department for Education Construction Framework to deliver a new secondary school in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham. Galliford Try will install air source heat pumps and PhotoVoltaic panels to help reduce carbon emissions.

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How education changed the course of The Korte Company

The Korte Company

There was a time when education didn’t matter much; when you could live a nice life on little more than good sense and a decent work ethic and when finishing farm chores was a lot more important than finishing high school. Back in the states, Ralph’s dad, who was 63, had some news. Thanks to his formal education, Ralph was prepared.

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School buildings deterioration unacceptable and alarming, say MPs

Construction Law

The lack of basic information from the Department for Education (DfE) on the concrete crisis in schools is both shocking and disappointing, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) warns in a new report. To read more of this and every other news story on this site, please log in with your Construction Law membership account details.