Keeping Construction Sites Safe in the Summer Holidays
Here in the UK, school’s out and kids across the country are enjoying the long summer holiday. This year seems to be a bonus year for children as the sun has been shining just about every day, unlike many years when the weather turns rainy just as the summer holidays begin. While most kids are supervised closely these days during the long summer days with no school, there are still areas where kids play outside as they used to years ago. Not all families can find childcare while both parents work full time, so there will always be some youngsters who are left to their own devices to ente
[…]Roofing Work – Making Sense out of British Standards
When it comes to British Standards, there are more than 27,000 of them in total, but not all of them apply to the roofing sector, or even the construction industry in general, so finding out which British Standards apply to roofing work means that you only need to concern yourself about a fraction of the total number. Today we’re going to take a look at the British Standards that you need to consider when working on a roofing project.
BS 5534:2014 – Slating and tiling for pitched roofs and vertical cladding code of practice (including shingles).
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