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Residential Construction Industry

Residential Construction Industry

Edge Careers are a specialist recruitment agency, working across all sectors with the the construction industry, including providing recruitment solutions for the residential construction industry.

The Residential team at Edge Careers offers a wide range of recruitment solutions to both our candidates and clients across the housing spectrum. Operating in the speculative, affordable living, student accommodation, retirement and extra care markets, if you can live in it, they can source the staff to build it, manage it and sell it, using a blend of industry knowledge and expert research skills to match the right people with the right jobs.

If you are looking for a new job in the residential construction industry, contact our residential team on 01905 827207 and one of the team will be happy to help you, or alternatively you can register your details and one of our residential consultants will be in touch to discuss your job search.

Similarly if you are looking to recruit staff in the residential sector then get in touch with Edge Careers or register a vacancy and one of our experienced residential consultants will give you call to discuss the opportunity in more depth.

To view the latest vacancies Edge Careers has to offer, go to our job search page.

 

Residential Construction Industry

 

Edge Careers are Construction and Engineering Recruitment Experts who pride ourselves on offering the highest level of service in the industry to all of our candidates and clients.

To become an Edge Careers candidate, please click here to register your details. If you are a client looking to fill a vacancy, please click here, or alternatively contact one of our consultants to discuss your requirements in more detail via our Contact Us page.

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Residential Construction

Residential Construction

Edge Careers are construction recruitment specialists, working on vacancies across all sectors within these industries including residential construction.

At Edge Careers we work to the highest level of recruitment possible so that we can become the go to agency for our candidates and clients, our residential team operate out of our head office in the midlands, but cover vacancies across the whole of the UK.

The Residential team at Edge Careers offers a wide range of recruitment solutions to both our candidates and clients across the housing spectrum. Operating in the speculative, affordable living, student accommodation, retirement and extra care markets, if you can live in it, we can source the staff to build it, manage it and sell it.

If you are a candidate looking to work in the Residential Construction industry, contact our residential team on 01905 827207 and one of the team will be happy to help you, or alternatively you can register your details with us and one of the team will be in touch to give discuss your job search.

Similarly if you are client looking to recruit for staff in residential construction then give Edge Careers a call or register your vacancy with us and one of the residential will be in touch to discuss the opportunity.

 

Residential Construction

 

Edge Careers are Construction and Engineering Recruitment Experts who pride ourselves on offering the highest level of service in the industry to all of our candidates and clients.

To become an Edge Careers candidate, please click here to register your details. If you are a client looking to fill a vacancy, please click here, or alternatively contact one of our consultants to discuss your requirements in more detail via our Contact Us page.

Follow Edge Careers on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Google+  to stay up to date with all our latest news, exclusive competitions and events.

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Residential Construction Management

Residential Construction Management

Edge Careers are a specialist recruitment agency working across all sectors within the industry from residential construction management vacancies to construction site labourers.

Here at Edge Careers we work to the highest possible standard of recruitment for our candidates and clients so that we can become the go to agency for all of their recruitment needs, when approaching us as a candidate you will have a recruitment consultant stay with you through the process offering and assistance, our service doesn’t stop when you begin your new job, we will stay in contact with you after so that we can make sure that you are happy with your move. As a client when you use Edge Careers you will be assigned a key account manager to be your sole point of contact in the company so the we can understand the present and future ambitions of the company.

If you are looking for residential construction management roles then contact our dedicated residential recruitment team on 01905 827207 and one of the team will be happy to help you with your requirements, or alternatively you can register your details with us and one of our residential team will be in touch to discuss your job search.

If you are a client looking to recruit for residential construction roles, then contact Edge Careers or register your vacancy with us and one of our residential team will give you a call to discuss your vacancy and begin to submit relevant candidates.

 

Residential Construction Management

 

Edge Careers are Construction and Engineering Recruitment Experts who pride ourselves on offering the highest level of service in the industry to all of our candidates and clients.

To become an Edge Careers candidate, please click here to register your details. If you are a client looking to fill a vacancy, please click here, or alternatively contact one of our consultants to discuss your requirements in more detail via our Contact Us page.

Follow Edge Careers on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Google+  to stay up to date with all our latest news, exclusive competitions and events.

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Residential Construction Recruitment

Residential Construction Recruitment

As a Residential Construction Recruitment specialist. Edge Careers caters for construction and engineering clients and candidates for residential positions, ranging from junior level positions right up to senior management, across the UK and Internationally.

The Residential Construction Recruitment team use a blend of industry knowledge and expert research skills to match the right people with the right jobs, furthering our candidates’ careers and securing the industry’s top talent for our clients. We often adopt a headhunt approach, a strategy usually only used in high end executive recruitment, to source candidates for hard to fill job roles which is what separates us from the majority of other recruitment agencies. It is this level of service that we endeavor to provide at all times, not only within in our Residential Recruitment team, but across the whole business.

Don’t just take our word for it, here is what one of the Residential Construction Recruitment teams clients has to say:

“As Managing Director of a large regional house builder, I have worked with Edge Careers consistently for the past twelve years. When looking for a senior appointment, the absolute requirement is to instruct a recruitment specialist who is extremely knowledgeable and well-connected in your sector as well as discreet and highly professional.
I have consistently found that Edge Careers meet these requirements and more, which is why for me, they are the go-to consultants in the residential sector.”

 

Residential Construction Recruitment

 

Edge Careers are Construction and Engineering Recruitment Experts who pride ourselves on offering the highest level of service in the industry to all of our candidates and clients.

To become an Edge Careers candidate, please click here to register your details. If you are a client looking to fill a vacancy, please click here, or alternatively contact one of our consultants to discuss your requirements in more detail via our Contact Us page.

Follow Edge Careers on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook for all our latest news, exclusive competitions and events.

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Construction Forecast Downgraded

Forecasters have lowered construction growth predictions for this year and next owing to a slowdown in third quarter housing and commercial activity.

Even with a weaker growth forecast, contractors can still count a near 20% rise in construction from 2015 to 2019. This will be driven by growth in the three largest construction sectors; private housing, commercial and infrastructure.

According to the Construction Products Association industry output is now expected to grow 3.6% in 2015, down from the expected 4.9% spurt forecast back in the summer.

Next year the industry’s growth rate is expected to be slightly ahead of 2015 at 3.8%, down from the 4.2% first forecast.

Forecast highlights

Construction growth downgraded

 

 

Construction output: up 3.6% in 2015 and 3.8% in 2016
Private housing starts: up 7% this year and 5% in 2016
Public housing starts: down 10% in 2015 and 5% in 2016
Offices construction: up 8% in 2015 and 7% in 2016
Infrastructure output: up 13.2% in 2015 and 7.6% in 2016
Key risks include skills shortages and government austerity

 

 

 

Dr Noble Francis, economics director, said: “We remain positive about prospects for the construction industry. The slowdown in Q3 activity is expected to be temporary.”

“The commercial sector is forecast to enjoy growth from 2016 averaging 3.9% per year through to 2019. New offices construction is expected to be the primary driver, with increasing activity in cities such as Birmingham and Manchester as well as growth in the capital.”

“Retail construction is expected to improve but a consolidation of expansion plans by major supermarket chains will constrain growth rates.”

“Infrastructure activity continues to thrive. Output in the sector is forecast to grow 11.2% on average per year between 2015 and 2019, supported in large part by the £411bn National Infrastructure Plan.”

He said that the roads and energy sub-sectors would be strongest but work is forecast to increase throughout the forecast period in all key sub-sectors; roads, energy, rail, water and sewerage.

“Private housing starts are forecast to rise, with major house builders signalling their intention to build more homes over the next 12-18 months,” said Dr Francis.

“Help to Buy accounts for one quarter of new build purchases and will help to sustain demand. House prices continue to increase in most regions, especially in London and the South East, illustrating a strong underlying demand.”

“Public housing, however, is expected to be adversely affected by uncertainty and a lack of funding due to the extension of Right to Buy to housing associations and cuts to social rent. As a result, public housing starts are estimated to fall 10.0% in 2015 and a further 5.0% in 2016.”

But Dr Francis warned: “While growth prospects in construction remain positive, there are significant risks. Government austerity focuses on current spending rather than capital investment but the risk remains that if government cannot reduce current spending as much as it anticipates, it may cut public construction projects to achieve its aims of eliminating the public sector deficit.”

“In addition, within the construction industry, the key concerns regard skills shortages, which have already been reported in the housing sector but may become more prevalent across the wider industry over the next 12-18 months due to the forecast growth.”

This story is by constructionenquirer.com

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£100bn for Infrastructure by 2020

Chancellor pledges £100bn by 2020 for infrastructure

 

George Osbourne
Chancellor George Osborne will today launch the National Infrastructure Commission and promise to stick to his pledge to spend £100bn in this Parliament for new roads, rail, flood defences and other vital projects.

He will set out plans to ‘get Britain building’, saying that infrastructure will be at the heart of next month’s Spending Review.

In the review, the Chancellor will set out plans to raise billions of pounds from a suite of asset sales that will be ploughed back into infrastructure projects.

Later today in York, Osborne will also confirm the seven commissioners who will help former Cabinet minister Lord Adonis run the independent National Infrastructure Commission.

The line-up includes Lord Heseltine and experienced industry bigwig, Sir John Armitt, who backed the formation of the commission in a Labour policy document before the last election.

NIC commissioners
Lord Heseltine – the former deputy prime minister who has long championed the regeneration of Britain’s inner cities through infrastructure investment
Sir John Armitt – the former chair of the Olympic Delivery Authority, and next year’s President of the Institute of Civil Engineers
Professor Tim Besley – a former member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee and the LSE’s Growth Commission, which recommended an independent infrastructure body
Demis Hassabis – artificial intelligence researcher, neuroscientist and head of DeepMind Technologies
Sadie Morgan – a founding director of dRMM Architects and Design Panel Chair of HS2
Bridget Rosewell – a senior adviser at Volterra and former Chief Economist and Chief Economic Adviser to the Greater London Authority
Sir Paul Ruddock – chairman of the Victoria & Albert Museum and the University of Oxford Endowment

The Chancellor said: “I am determined to shake Britain out of its inertia on infrastructure and end the situation where we trail our rivals when it comes to building everything from the housing to the power stations that our children will need.

“At the Spending Review, I will commit to investing £100bn in infrastructure over the next five years and we are creating an independent commission to give us a long-term, unbiased analysis of the country’s major infrastructure needs.

“We need to think long-term and deliver a cross-party consensus on what we need to build.”

The commission will produce a report at the start of each five-year Parliament, offering recommendations for priority infrastructure projects and hold governments to account for their delivery.

Its initial focus will be in three key areas. These include identifying priorities for future investment in the North’s strategic transport infrastructure to improve connectivity between cities, especially east-west across the Pennines.

London’s transport system, particularly reviewing strategic options and identifying priorities for future investment in large scale transport improvements – on road, rail and underground – including Crossrail 2.

Energy, particularly exploring how the UK can better balance supply and demand, aiming for an energy market where prices are reflective of costs to the overall system

This story is by constructionenquirer.com

 

 

Edge Careers are Construction and Engineering Recruitment Experts who pride ourselves on offering the highest level of service in the industry to all of our candidates and clients.

To become an Edge Careers candidate, please click here to register your details. If you are a client looking to fill a vacancy, please click here, or alternatively contact one of our consultants to discuss your requirements in more detail via our Contact Us page.

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Costain to trial Self-Healing Concrete

Costain starts self-healing concrete site trials

Costain Logo
The first major trial of self-healing concrete in the UK is being undertaken at a site in the South Wales Valleys.

Costain and researchers from Bath, Cambridge and Cardiff universities are piloting three separate concrete-healing technologies for the first time in real-world settings.

The pioneering trials are taking place on construction sites on the Heads of the Valleys road improvement scheme in South Wales – the A465.

Eventually the researchers hope to incorporate them into a single system that could be used to automatically repair concrete in the built environment.

It is estimated that around £40bn a year is spent in the UK on the repair and maintenance of structures, the majority of which are made from concrete.

Once damage is detected, the systems being trialled will set in motion reactions that repair the concrete autonomously without the need for human intervention.

Self-healing systems
The first technique uses shape-shifting materials, known as shape-memory polymers, to repair large cracks in concrete. When these materials are heated with a small current, they can transform into a different shape that the material has ‘memorised’. The researchers believe that these materials can be embedded into concrete and used to close cracks or make them smaller.In the second technique, researchers will pump both organic and inorganic healing agents through a network of thin tunnels in the concrete to help repair damage.In the third technique, the team will embed tiny capsules, or lightweight aggregates, containing both bacteria and healing agents into the concrete. It is anticipated that once cracks occur, these capsules will release their cargos and, in the case of the bacteria, the nutrients that will enable them to function and produce calcium carbonate, which the researchers envisage will heal the cracks in the concrete.

The researchers have cast six concrete walls at the test site, each containing the different technologies.

Over time the team will load the concrete at specific angles to induce cracks, and then monitor how effective each of the self-healing techniques is.

Oliver Teall, a civil engineer at Costain, said: “From this trial we should gain an insight into the feasibility of constructing a full-scale structure using these techniques and their early-stage effects on structural properties.

“We will be monitoring properties such as stiffness, permeability and the mechanical damage recovery of the trial walls in comparison with conventional reinforced concrete walls.”

This story is by constructionenquirer.com

 

 

Edge Careers are Construction and Engineering Recruitment Experts who pride ourselves on offering the highest level of service in the industry to all of our candidates and clients.

To become an Edge Careers candidate, please click here to register your details. If you are a client looking to fill a vacancy, please click here, or alternatively contact one of our consultants to discuss your requirements in more detail via our Contact Us page.

Follow Edge Careers on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook for all our latest news, exclusive competitions and events.

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Residential Recruitment

Residential Recruitment 

Edge Logo Residential Recruitment

 

As Residential Recruitment specialists. Edge Careers caters for Residential clients and candidates for permanent placements, ranging from junior level positions right up to senior management, across the UK.

As Residential Recruitment Specialists. Edge Careers offers a wide range of recruitment solutions to both our candidates and clients across the housing spectrum. Operating in the speculative, affordable living, student accommodation, retirement and extra care markets, if you can live in it, we can source the staff to build it, manage it and sell it. As leaders in the residential recruitment market, the Residential team work with a multitude of clients across the UK, from privately owned regional developers to large Plc’s, and recruit across the board from graduates to Directors, covering Administration, Land, Sales, Technical, Operations and Commercial disciplines within the refurbishment and new build speculative and social housing markets. With a great reputation built on repeat success, the Residential Recruitment team strive to provide only the best suited candidates for every job vacancy.

Don’t just take our word for it, here is what one of our Residential candidates has to say:

“Edge Careers spoke to me well before any interviews were arranged with prospective companies. I felt this was a good idea as it gave them all the necessary background information to put my name forward to the right companies to best fit with my skills and experience. They were very professional at securing a new job for me and I would thoroughly recommend their services”

To view the latest vacancies at Edge Careers, please follow this link.

 

 

Edge Careers are Construction and Engineering Recruitment Experts who pride ourselves on offering the highest level of service in the industry to all of our candidates and clients.

To become an Edge Careers candidate, please click here to register your details. If you are a client looking to fill a vacancy, please click here, or alternatively contact one of our consultants to discuss your requirements in more detail via our Contact Us page.

Follow Edge Careers on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook for all our latest news, exclusive competitions and events.

www.edgecareers.co.uk

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