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The Portakabin Group and the Education Funding Agency (EFA) have reached contract award on the first school in the Surrey and Kent batch of the Priority School Building Programme, in an agreement worth £5.6 million. The contract follows the Portakabin Group’s appointment as preferred bidder for seven infant and primary school schemes, which will be worth in the region of £28 million and delivered using a Yorkon off-site solution. The first project is a new…

Polypipe, the UK’s leading manufacturer of sustainable drainage and water management products and systems, will be exhibiting at Water, Sewerage & Waste (WSW) exhibitions and delivering CPD seminars throughout 2016. The CPD seminars will cover the conveyance and attenuation of water utilising large diameter piping systems. It will highlight the benefits of using modern plastic materials as a pipeline solution for the movement and storage of surface, foul and combined flows. Polypipe will be sharing…

Researchers from the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) are aiming to draw up national guidelines on the provision of greenery in urban areas to help create healthier and more ‘liveable’ communities. Providing vegetation as “green infrastructure” in towns and cities can help reduce flooding, provide much-needed shade and improve air quality. But often a piecemeal approach is taken to including trees, bushes and grass in new developments. A team of academics led…