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• More homes, more efficient homes

  The Concrete Block Association has launched its part of the Modern Masonry ‘Better Built in Blockwork’ campaign to educate the construction industry on the benefits of concrete block construction.

• Premier acquires further business in continued drive for expansion

  Premier Forest Group has acquired Haverfordwest-based timber importer Merlwood Timber.

• Marley Alutec implements faster delivery times for popular products

  Marley Alutec has announced a major cut in the delivery lead times of its top-selling products.

• Midland Lead features in the latest Parliamentary Review

  Midland Lead is featuring in the latest Parliamentary Review - one of just 16 companies in manufacturing and service representing the metals, materials and fabrication sector.

• Rowlinson Timber expands its operations to the South East

  Rowlinson Timber has announced that, due to large/sustained and successful growth over the last few years, it is opening a main distribution hub in the South East and that, from 1 January 2019, its main operations will be based in the Port of Sheerness.

• Rudridge Gravesend celebrates top marks in H&S audit

  Rudridge Gravesend has been awarded a top score of eight in its latest Stay Safe Review.

• Velux announces £7 million expansion

  Velux will expand its headquarters in Scotland next year, in a project worth £7 million.

• Delivery drivers will be able to put away shopping while the customer is out

  Supermarket shoppers will now be able to have their groceries delivered and put away – without even being at home.

• Get in the Halloween spirit with NMBS

  NMBS is setting out to find the independent merchant that best gets into the spirit of the Halloween season, with the launch of a competition to raise money for construction industry charity CRASH.

• Worcester Bosch wins Best Buy status for ninth consecutive year

  Gas and oil boilers by Worcester Bosch have been award Which? Best Buy status for the ninth year in a row.

• New factory will insulate 40,000 homes per year

  IKO Insulation has opened its first insulation plant in the UK in Alconbury, Cambridgeshire.

• Housebuilders shares drop as housing tax on foreign buyers rises

  Shares of some of the UK’s biggest housebuilders plummeted at the start of last week as the Prime Minister announced an increased property tax on overseas buyers.

• Get snap happy and win a Google home device

  People who enter ARP’s new photo competition can win one of five Google home devices worth £129.

• “A tougher regulatory regime that has real penalties and sanctions for those that don't conform”

  Dame Judith Hackitt, author of Building a Safer Future: Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety, has spoken about the need for a joined-up regulatory process that goes hand in hand with a tougher regulatory regime that has real penalties and sanctions for those that do not conform.

• New product testing addresses post-Grenfell concerns

  The British Board of Agrément has announced an initiative to provide additional assurance to specifiers and clients that the building materials they use are of a consistently high quality.