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New Smart MFP from OKI Europe
OKI Europe has launched the MC883, a versatile A3 colour smart multifunction printer (MFP) that's fully equipped to support construction businesses, where the ability to print and scan documents and plans...
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Digital innovation holds the key to HS2
Shareplant is urging the industry to tap into efficiency gains brought by digital technology, to help make ambitious infrastructure projects like HS2 feasible
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Quiet, please!
Noise pollution is second only to air pollution as a threat to public health according to the World Health Organisation. Quiet Mark has set up the Acoustics Academy to help us understand why
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Concrete results
One of the most commonly used man-made materials on earth, concrete is a vital part of the construction industry. However, the practicalities of working with structural concrete, whether precast or poured...
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ERP for house builders
EasyBuild's house building module provides complete marketing and sales progress functionality to handle the full range of house purchasing schemes |
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COVID 19 - A massive upheaval.
We have conflicting images here in the West Country. Work on a commercial building site has closed down, whilst buses are still picking up workers for Hinckley Point from their lodgings. The number of workers on site has been reduced dramatically and EDF is bringing in those staying in private homes to house them inspecially built campuses in Bridgwater. It must be very difficult being in lockdown whilst your guests depart each day for aconstruction environment where they can’t maintain correct social distances.
This epitomizes the response to the COVID 19 pandemic. There are no experts here. Everybody has an opinion on how we should treat it and nobody has a clue how long it will last. Whilst it appears that a full lockdown cuts off the virus’ attempts to spread, if we mistime the lifting of the lockdown we will be back where we started. The implications of the lockdown on the country’s finances, industry and jobs are massive, not to mention people’s relations with each other, our former European colleagues and other countries.
I suspect it will take a while for International travel to ramp up again, and the lure of untrammeled tourism and extensive cruising is somewhat dimmed with up to millionBritish tourists having become stuck in far-flung exotic locations or onboard mega cruise ships.
This, then, is the beginning of massive changes – to how we work, how we relate to other people, and to what we expect of the Government. The ramifications affect every aspect of our lives – will commuting become an anachronism after we have adapted to working from home. Do we need to jet off to America for another conference, and, if not, why do we need another runway at Heathrow? How should we care for the old and vulnerable in society?
The pandemic has certainly knocked climate change off the agenda – but it hasn’t gone away – and neither has Brexit. It allows us, rather, to view each of thesefrom a different, and more complete perspective – part of a learning process which we can start as a chastened and humbler society – always assuming we survive the next year or so, of course.
David Chadwick
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