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Holcim | December 27, 2021

Holcim (Paris:HOLN) has signed an agreement to acquire Malarkey Roofing Products, a leading company in the US residential roofing market with projected 2022 Net Sales of USD 600 million and EBITDA of USD 120 million. Malarkey Roofing Products has a track record of double-digit growth in the highly profitable USD 19 billion US residential roofing market. Malarkey is fully complementary to Firestone Building Products’ leadership in the commercial segment, positioning Holcim as a full roofing...

The Compliance Workbook | July 09, 2020

The question: “What are you doing, Daddy?” one sunny afternoon resulted in an attempt to explain Machine Learning (ML) to my ~ eight-year-old daughter; we are homeschooling, after all. I was sat at my desk and she was interested in what I was doing. “I’m trying to explain to this chap that Artificial Intelligence isn’t something you can apply to compliance yet.” Well, that opened a massive can of worms in my eight-year-old’s brain. Let us ...

GRBJ | February 17, 2020

Prefabrication, also referred to as off-site construction, allows various building elements to be manufactured and assembled in a factory and then erected on a construction site. Anything from light fixtures to whole multilevel exterior walls can be prefabricated. Although this process is not new to construction, the way prefabrication is being used has drastically streamlined the building process. The facade at Western Michigan University’s Arcadia Flats serves as an example. Triangle Ass...

PBC Today | January 17, 2020

The National Audit Office has released its latest report, which shows serious delays and increased construction costs for two hospital developments due to the Carillion collapse. The 646-bed Royal Liverpool, which was due to open in June 2017, is now forecast to be completed more than five years late, in the autumn of 2022, and the Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has not yet set an opening date. The 669-bed Midland Metropolitan, which was originally due to open in October 201...