Tradespeople have been warned thieves are using social media to target them for their valuable tools and equipment. Motoring insurance experts from Quotezone.co.uk are urging tradespeople to avoid posting pictures of work vans and equipment online. Four in five burglars use social media to find and select potential victims, making those posting online easy targets. Tradespeople…
Health insurer Vitality share insights from their latest report, Britain’s Healthiest Workplace, the country’s largest workplace wellbeing survey. According to the survey of 4,000 workers and their employers, the insurer found that workers in the construction industry lose 42.3 days of productive time per year due to absence and presenteeism, with 13 per cent of…
Midlothian-based contractor Lime Electrical has re-branded as Lime and has appointed David Houston as joint managing director, together with a six strong team of M&E professionals, to launch the company’s new mechanical division and develop it as an all-encompassing M&E contractor. The fifty-person business, which was founded in 2015, operates throughout the United Kingdom and…
Luxury Home Show viewers can also save £100 on the purchase of the recently launched A3 unit with the code ‘LUXURY100’ at checkout Andersen A3 offers over 240 colour and finish combinations for discerning homeowners, a 7-year warranty and an intuitive LED interface Andersen, which hand-builds bespoke, design-led EV charge points for the home, has…
By Daniel Forsberg, CTEK’s Marketing Manager EVSE The charging of Electric Vehicles (EVs) is getting a lot smarter, as the new generation of EVs and chargepoints become capable of much cleverer, cheaper and efficient transfer of power from source to EV – and vice versa. These evolutionary advances are enabled by more sophisticated communication between…
Thorn and Zumtobel part of the Zumtobel Group, have raised £9,824 for the Electrical Industries Charity (EIC) during the financial year 2023/24. The funds were raised through various internal initiatives, reflecting the company’s commitment to supporting its wider community. Paul Kilburn, Managing Director UK and Ireland at the Zumtobel Group, expressed his pride in his…
27 per cent of young adults in the UK say their parents haven’t taught them basic home maintenance skills 61 per cent of parents admit they don’t have the confidence in their own abilities to effectively teach their children New campaign sees Jeff and Freddie Brazier work with HomeServe to fix the home maintenance skills gap More…
Engaging and boosting inclusivity at grassroots level with young people is going to be essential if the UK is going to fill the hundreds of thousands of expected job opportunities in electrification. That’s the rallying call from Coventry University’s Deepak Farmah, who is currently helping to connect the emerging community through the Electric Revolution Skills…
Experts at Clear Amber used ONS data to find the average weekly pay, including overtime, for construction workers in the UK to discover which region trade workers earn the most. You can find the full research here: https://clearambershop.com/blogs/trade-and-diy-blog/uk-trade-index?_pos=1&_sid=c1f261b6f&_ss=r Rank Region Mean weekly pay for skilled construction and building trades (incl. overtime) 1 East of England…
There are only two weeks left to enter The Electrical Industry Awards 2024 The Electrical Industry Awards – now running for 32 years – showcases the achievements of organisations and individuals within the electrical industry. To enter now click the link below: Register Now Becoming a finalist is a great way to boost morale and…