How to minimise the impact of rodents during construction

Anyone who’s ever had a rodent infestation at home will understand the headache it causes – but if you thought that was bad enough, imagine facing an invasion from rats at your construction site.

It’s a nightmare situation all too familiar to the Belgian officials responsible for opening new road tunnels in Brussels. Earlier this year, they claimed progress had been halted after rats ate construction plans.

Whilst this does sound like a very extreme and public use of the classic ‘sorry, the dog ate my homework’ excuse, it also accurately points out one of the biggest issues that arises from pest control problems on a building site – namely, delays.

As rats and mice struggle to find shelter and food, they’ll happily gnaw their way through woodwork or burrow between joints, leaving heaps of expensive damage in their wake, as well as completely disrupting your schedule.

And, as Belgian officials discovered, it’s a complication investors aren’t likely to be sympathetic towards, particularly because it can be easily avoided with a few simple actions.

Here’s our top advice for minimising the impact of pests on your construction site.

#1: Deal with any current problems

If you’re working on a brownfield or a greenfield site, you may have already disturbed a population of rats or mice. In that case, it’s important to keep an eye out for signs of an infestation. Chewed electrical cables – in fact, chewed anything – will be one of the most obvious indicators.

If you’re too late and they’ve already got a stronghold at your site, your only sure-fire tactic of getting rid of them is to hire an established rodent control company – they’ll also keep you on the right side of the law when it comes to dealing with protected species like bats.

#2: Protect your staff

Everyone knows that rats spread diseases, but did you also know that their germs can linger even after the pests have been eradicated? That means your employees could still be at risk of contracting potentially lethal infections, especially if stagnant water is nearby.

Limit the possible health and safety consequences by providing protective gloves to all construction workers, and promote good hand hygiene with adequate washing facilities.

#3: Stop future complications

Prevention is far easier and more effective than curing an infestation. Protect your building from future invasions from pests and rodents by incorporating preventative measures into initial construction stages.

Your biggest task will be blocking all conceivable points of entry, including gaps around drain pipes and air vents. A fine mesh should do the trick, and future human inhabitants will be forever thankful for your efforts.

So you never have to utter the shaming words ‘Rats ate my construction plans’ like those hapless Belgian officials, stick to these three steps for stopping rodent problems from disrupting your building site.

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October 23, 2016 at 12:01AM

End of Season Asphalt Repairs Can Save Your Municipality Money

If you are a municipality or business owner looking to make your winter snow removal and maintenance tasks a lot easier, look down at your asphalt surfaces now, rather than up at the changing season skies. 

Taking the time to asses the condition of your parking lot, roads and walkways will allow you to create a preventative maintenance plan. Putting this plan into action with the help of your municipal asphalt paving contractors will make your life easier this winter, and provide cost savings for years to come. 

To help you get started, here are three resources that explain how end-of-season asphalt repairs can save your municipality money. 

Imperative Reasons to Fill Cracks and Potholes Before Winter Hits

• Learn how winter weather fluctuations and maintenance necessities like snow removal can compromise your municipal asphalt paving. In addition, learn how you can prevent damage and keep pedestrians and drivers safe by filling potholes and using street sweeping services. Read more now...  

Prepare Your Parking Lot for Winter Weather with This Winter Preparation Checklist

• Is your business or municipality ready for winter? Use this valuable checklist to make sure that you are ready for the colder temperatures and challenging conditions that winter brings. Learn what supplies you need to stock up on, and how to ensure that you have a reliable snow removal plan in place. Read more now... 

Protect Your Asphalt Pavement From Winter Weather With These 6 Tips

• See six ways that you can make sure that you are ready to handle the snow and ice, while providing your employees or municipality residents with safe, clear asphalt pavement. This list of six essential tips includes tasks that you can do yourself, and some you should plan to ask your asphalt paving partner about. Read more now... 

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For more information on Wolf Paving or to request a free quote for your next paving project contact one of our two offices. If you live or work in the Milwaukee area, call us at 262-965-2121. For Madison asphalt paving help, call us at 608-249-7931.

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Clients could face tax bills for choosing cheap contractors

Clients could face a tax of 0.5% of construction costs if they choose contractors who don’t invest in research and development or skills training.

That is one of the ideas in a radical review of the construction industry currently being pored over by Government ministers who commissioned it.

The Farmer Review of the UK Construction Labour Model warns the industry faces “inexorable decline” unless major changes are made.

It highlights construction’s “dysfunctional training model”, lack of innovation and collaboration and “non-existent research and development culture.”

Author and consultant Mark Farmer said the needs of construction firms and the clients who hire them are out of step.

He said: “If you buy a new car, you expect it to have been built in a factory to exacting standards, to be delivered on time, to an agreed price and to a predetermined quality.

“This needs to happen more in construction, so that the investors, developers or building owners hiring construction firms increasingly dictate the use of modern methods of delivery and invest appropriately in the skills agenda to grow this part of the industry.

“There are more similarities between manufacturing and construction than many people are led to believe and this perception needs to change, starting in the housing market”

One recommendation set out for the medium term is a “carrier bag charge” style behavioural deterrent scheme.

This would levy a tax on businesses who buy construction work in a way that doesn’t support industry innovation or skills development.

Clients could face paying a suggested levy equal to 0.5% of a scheme’s construction cost but would avoid paying this tax completely by commissioning construction in a more responsible way.

Farmer said: “The construction industry is in dire need of change.

“What is clear to me following the nine months spent conducting this review is that carrying on as we are is simply not an option.

“With digital technology advancements pushing ahead in almost every other industry and with the construction labour pool coming under serious pressure, the time has come for action.

“Unless we find some way of promoting innovation in construction and making the work less labour intensive and more attractive to new entrants, there’s a very real danger of the construction sector going into an inexorable decline over the next few years.

“I hope this review generates some debate in the sector and all involved can consider their role in safeguarding the industry’s long term health.”

Ray O’Rourke, chairman and chief executive at Laing O’Rourke, said: “Laing O’Rourke has invested heavily in innovation and continuous improvement, and therefore I welcome many of the findings and recommendations of the Farmer review.

“The report shines a light on the serious and systemic issues in UK house building and the wider construction industry, and we cannot afford to ignore them any longer.”

“There is significant scope for radical transformation through the adoption of new technologies and advanced manufacturing approaches.

“This will deliver the quality housing stock the UK urgently requires and directly address the acute skills gap that threatens our very future.

“Government, developers and deliverers need to invest collectively to achieve these shared goals and future-proof the industry.”

Ten main recommendations of the Farmer Review

1.    Construction Leadership Council should have strategic oversight of the implementation of these recommendations and evolve itself appropriately to coordinate and drive the process of delivering the required industry change programme set out in this review.

2.    CITB should be comprehensively reviewed and a reform programme instituted.

3.    Industry, clients and government should work together leveraging CLC’s Business Modelsworking party activity, to improve relationships and increase levels of investment in R&D and innovation in construction by changing commissioning trends from traditional to pre-manufactured approaches. The housing sector (spanning all tenures) should be used as a scalable pilot programme for this more integrated approach.

4.    Industry, government and clients, supported by academic expertise and leveraging CLC’s current Innovation work stream activity, should organise to deliver a comprehensive innovation programme. This should be fully aligned to market, benefits case led and generate a new shape of demand across industry, with a priority on residential construction. It should quickly define key measures of progress and report regularly against these as a check on the possible need for more radical measures. It should in turn also help shape CITB reform proposals in relation to technology and innovation grant funding initiatives.

5.    A reformed CITB should look to reorganise its grant-funding model for skills and training aligned to what a future modernised industry will need. Industry bodies and professional institutions should also take a more active role in ensuring that training courses are producing talent which is appropriate for a digitally enabled world, ensuring that the right business models are evolved with appropriate contractual frameworks.

6.    The government has recently reaffirmed its commitment to having a strong industrial strategy. The government should recognise the value of the construction sector and be willing to intervene by way of appropriate further education, planning and tax / employment policies to help establish and maintain appropriate skills capacity.

7.    A reformed CITB or stand-alone body should be challenged and empowered to deliver a more powerful public facing story and image for the holistic ‘built environment’ process, of which construction forms part. This responsibility should include an outreach programme to schools and should position industry exemplars and the target future state rather than just ‘business as usual’.

8.    Government should act to provide an ‘initiation’ stimulus to innovation in the housing sector by promoting the use of pre-manufactured solutions through policy measures. This should be prioritised either through the conditional incentivisation of institutional development and investment in the private rented sector; the promotion of more pre-manufactured social house building through registered providers; direct commissioning of pre-manufactured housing; or a combination of any of the above. It should also consider planning breaks for pre-manufactured approaches.

9.    Government, as part of its housing policy planning, should work with industry to assemble and publish a comprehensive pipeline of demand in the new build housing sector, on the same lines as the National Infrastructure Pipeline, seeking to bring private developers and investors into this as far as possible to assist with longer term innovation and skills investment planning.

10. In the medium to longer term, and in particular if a voluntary approach does not achieve the step change necessary, government should consider introducing a charge on business clients of the construction industry to further influence commissioning behaviour and to supplement funding for skills and innovation at a level commensurate with the size of the industry. If such a charge is introduced, it should be set at no more than 0.5% of construction value, with a clear implementation timetable. Clients should be able to offset their contribution by demonstrating how they are contributing to industry capacity building and modernisation by directly or indirectly investing in skills development, pre-manufacturing facilities, or other forms of innovation and R&D.

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Sweep Away Leaves and Debris to Extend the Life of your Asphalt

One of the best things about living in Wisconsin is the four distinct seasons. As summer ends and fall begins, we enjoy cool, crisp weather and gorgeous scenery as the leaves begin to change colors and fall. For property managers, business owners, and municipalities, all of that scenic beauty eventually has to be cleaned up in the form of raking and street sweeping. 

From Madison to Waukesha, street sweeping ensures that the fall leaves and debris are completely removed in order to protect your paved surfaced and make winter snow removal safe and easy. 

If you are looking for a street sweeping service near you, here is how to find the right partner that will help you protect your property and your asphalt investment.

Why You Should Consider Regularly Scheduled Street Sweeping Services

Street sweeping vehicles use jets of water and specialized bristled brushes to remove dirt, debris and garbage from your asphalt pavement. Street sweeping should be done at least once a year, and fall is one of the best times to do it. Making an investment in scheduled street sweeping services will pay off, helping your asphalt pavement surface last longer. 

Regular street sweeping will: 

• Create safer passage for vehicles, pedestrians, and snow removal services.
• Improve drainage and prevent standing water on your asphalt surface: water penetration can compromise the surface of your asphalt, causing cracks, potholes, and other damage.
• Increase the curb appeal of your property, which can help with selling or renting efforts.

How To Hire The Right Street Sweeping Service Near You

If you are ready to hire a street sweeping service, you should treat it just like searching for any other contractor.

• You want a partner with a lot of experience, qualified employees, great customer service and the right equipment.
• There are different types and grades of pavement, including porous asphalt surfaces, concrete surfaces, rubber surfaces made with bits of rubber from tires, and asphalt surfaces. Your contractor should have expert knowledge on how to clean each surface type.
• The street sweeping company you choose should have a thorough knowledge what type of equipment, from vacuum sweepers to sprayers, are required for each specialized job. 

The right street sweeping service will do a lot more than pick up your fall leaves. They will serve as an expert partner who can help you maintain your unique property, and alert you to any small problems that require preventative maintenance before they become big issues.

Help With Removing Stains From Asphalt Pavement

An expert street sweeping service is an essential partner, but there are some stain removal techniques you can try on your own in order to keep your asphalt pavement looking great. Here is our DIY guide to removing common stains from asphalt pavement. 

Step One: No matter what caused your stain or how you will remove it, the first step is to thoroughly rinse the stained area with water from a hose to clear away remaining debris. However, less is more in this step: Don't use a pressure washer as this can set the stain into the asphalt more deeply. Stick to a normal hose. 

Step Two: Try a common household cleaner like soap, vinegar or dish or laundry detergent. Scrub the stain with a stiff-bristled brush, rinsing and repeating until clean. Coca-Cola can also be used as a cleaning product for pavement. Follow step one, and then pour a few cans of Coke on the stain. Let it sit overnight, and rinse it off the next morning. 

Oil Spills and Stains: In parking lots, oil is a common stain that requires a special cleaning method. Fortunately, inexpensive old-fashioned non-clumping cat litter works well as a first step. Clean up any excess oil and then pour the litter over the stain. In order to make sure the cat litter gets into any cracks, stomp it down on the asphalt surface. Let the cat litter sit on the stain overnight. Use a broom the next day to sweep up the litter and then spray the surface with a hose. 

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With 75 years of asphalt paving and maintenance experience, from highways to driveways, we are your local source for all of your street sweeping needs. 

For more information on Wolf Paving or to request a free estimate for your next street sweeping or paving project contact one of our two offices. If you live or work in the Waukesha areas, call us at 262-965-2121. For the Madison area, call us at 608-249-7931.

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October 12, 2016 at 10:50AM

Civil engineers call for dumping of EU procurement rules

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October 06, 2016 at 12:47PM

Robertson says project bank accounts will force margin rises

Stirling-based Robertson Group is predicting main contractors will have to rebalance margins as project bank accounts become commonplace on public sector work in Scotland.

Chairman Bill Robertson predicted a fundamental business model shift as he unveiled another year of strong profit growth to March 2016.

He predicted further upward pressure for healthier main contractor margins would result from greater involvement of private sector funders in the industry.

Robertson said: “Due to the changing source of funders in our market the group board believes that healthier margins in our sector will be a requirement of participation by funders to major projects and businesses.

“Our group companies therefore will continually focus on a growing return on capital and improving risk profile in our projects in preference to growth in volume.

“Indeed, in construction, if the intended project bank account process promoted by the public sector is pursued across the industry, the additional profit element required to operate such a scheme will require a rebalancing of margins within the industry.”

Over the year Robertson nearly doubled pre-tax profits to £21m on record turnover of £453m, while building its strongest ever forward order book at £2bn.

The group is now planning to double turnover over the next five years.

More than £100m of revenue is presently generated in England where the diversified Robertson Group has been steadily building its presence with a new Yorkshire and East Midlands office in Sheffield.

Robertson said the group had seen continued and sustainable growth across its 19 diverse infrastructure-based businesses, most notably in its construction, house building and partnership homes businesses.

Over the last 18 months the fast expanding group has taken on over 600 staff taking total headcount to nearly 2,000.

This year it aims to recruit a further 100 staff as it maintains a focus on using direct labour to maintain competitive advantage in the current skills crisis.

Partnership homes grew strongly and has now secured contracts to deliver over 2,500 homes over the next five years in Scotland. The firm also formed a partnership homes business in the North of England.

The group also expanded its offering in building services, civil engineering and rendering and roofing over the last 12 months.

Robertson Capital Projects, the group’s investment business, has successfully utilised its strong group working approach by involving its sister businesses in construction and facilities management to secure preferred bidder status for the delivery of a new £62m hospital in Kirkwall for NHS Orkney.

The investment will be run on 30-year concession commencing on financial close, which is anticipated in February 2017.

The homes business is operating on eight sites in Scotland including new developments in Dunbar, Strathaven and Mid Calder in Central Scotland. Robertson Homes also plans to develop quality family homes in the North of England, with four sites identified. 

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Wolf Paving Q+A on Mr. Fix-It – How to Fix Sinking Asphalt

The asphalt pavement contractors near you at Wolf Paving were featured on WTMJ's "Mr. Fit-It" radio show for a one-hour interview with Milwaukee's own Tom Feiza. 

The program offers weekly advice on do-it-yourself projects. home improvements and general home repairs. 

The focus of this recent program included 3 questions from radio host Tom Feiza: 

• What causes asphalt pavement to sink down right before a concrete garage slab?
• How do you fix a soil-sinking problem?
• What is infrared asphalt repair? 

Interested to hear the answers to these questions? Listen in to the radio interview segment now by clicking below. 

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Stay tuned to our blog! We will be publishing the additional segments in the coming months featuring call-in questions from listeners and expert answers from Wolf Paving asphalt paving professionals.

Past Interview Segments: 

• Segment 1: Wolf Paving 75th Anniversary, asphalt manufacturing, pothole repair and patching, asphalt sales.
• Segment 2: Water Pooling Near Culvert 

If you’d like more information about Wolf Paving and our team of asphalt paving contractors visit our website. Or click below to request a free estimate now so we can understand the size and scope of your project needs. 

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With 75 years of asphalt paving experience, from highways to driveways, we are your local source for all of your asphalt paving needs.

For more information on Wolf Paving or to request a free estimate for your next paving project contact one of our two offices. If you live or work in the Milwaukee area, call us at 262-965-2121. For the Madison area, call us at 608-249-7931.

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Driveway Installation using Drivesett Tegula Block Paving in Chester Le Street

Recent driveway installation using Drivesett Tegula block paving in Chester le Street.

This recent project involved us installing a new driveway using Marshalls Drivesett Tegula blocks. The colours we used were harvest and traditional colour mix using red ks kerbs.

Marshalls Drivesett Tegula Block Paving for Driveways

Marshalls Drivesett Tegula block paving comes in five different colours and five different sizes. Different size blocks and colours can be mixed to break up uniformity and add more creative interest to a driveway. Colours available are Traditional, Harvest, Pennant Grey, Hazelnut, and Autumn.

The Drivesettt Tegula block paving is one of our most popular blocks, it offers a beautifully aged appearance. Furthermore, with the variety of different sizes and colours available in this design, they can be blended together to create a truly unique look for your driveway.

Marshalls Drivesett Tegula block paving is also renowned for its long lasting high-quality appearance. A permeable equivalent is also available, please ask for further details of this product.

Our Marshalls Guarantee

Customers can also benefit from the great Marshalls products guarantees when the driveway is installed by our team. The guarantee is currently for 10 years. In addition, all our work receives a 5-year installation guarantee.

Driveways Finance

Furthermore, homeowners can benefit from our Driveway finance subject to status, please see our Finance page for further details.

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October 04, 2016 at 11:48AM

Government unveils £5bn boost to speed up house building

The Government is pledging £5bn of public money to accelerate building of tens of thousands of homes.

Under the latest plan to galvanise the house building industry, ministers will set aside £2bn of new public borrowing to fund an Accelerated Construction Scheme to make public land with planning permission available to builders.

A further £3bn home building fund using previously-announced cash will provide loans to stimulate new building projects where finances are tight.

Builders will be encouraged through these funding pots to use more modern building techniques in the hope of delivering homes twice as quickly.

Also new rules will be introduced to make it easier for developers to demolish offices and replace them with residential housing on a like-for-like basis.

Local planning authorities will be able to grant permission in principle on sites identified in new brownfield registers, to take the risk out of developing a potential 140,000 homes a year.

Chancellor Philip Hammond and Communities Secretary Sajid Javid will set out details of the funds at the Conservative party conference in Birmingham today.

“We’ll use all the tools at our disposal to accelerate housebuilding and ensure that over time, housing becomes more affordable,” Hammond said in a statement before his speech to the conference.

The home building fund will release £1bn of short-term loans for small builders, custom builders and innovative developers to deliver 25,500 homes by 2020, while a further £2bn of long-term funding for infrastructure will unlock up to 200,000 homes over the longer term, they said.

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October 03, 2016 at 09:48AM

New UK construction industry mascot launched by Considerate Constructors Scheme

The UK construction industry now has a female mascot called Honor Goodsite – created by the Considerate Constructors Scheme – the national organisation established to improve the image of the industry.

Honor Goodsite will promote all that is great about the industry, helping to raise awareness and inspire young children to consider a career in construction when they grow up, as well as delivering important messages about children’s safety around construction sites.

Honor Goodsite is a structural engineer – a key profession within construction – but one which is still very much underrepresented by women. Only six percent of parents surveyed by the Institution of Engineering and Technology said an engineering career would be attractive to their daughters; the challenge is to help change these perceptions among parents as well as children.

She joins the hugely successful industry mascot Ivor Goodsite, a site manager who was introduced by the Scheme in 2003 and has since then visited hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren across the UK.

Honor Goodsite’s first outing was at the Victoria Station Upgrade project – a £700 million project transforming one of the capital’s busiest stations. The Taylor Woodrow BAM Nuttall Joint Venture delivering this project hosted the launch of Honor Goodsite, with the help of 19 children.

Considerate Constructors Scheme Chief Executive Edward Hardy said: “The Scheme is delighted to be launching the UK construction industry’s new mascot, Honor Goodsite.  Honor has a hugely important role to improve the construction industry’s image with future generations. As a role model for promoting gender diversity and equality in construction, Honor will encourage schoolchildren to understand the wide range of careers available, while helping to change perceptions of the sector as male-orientated.”

Considerate Constructors Scheme Director Caroline Barker added: “I am delighted that the industry now has a female mascot. As the first female engineer to be recruited at a leading construction organisation in the 1980’s, I know first-hand how exciting an industry it is for everyone”.

Taylor Woodrow Bam Nuttall’s Environmental Manager Caroline O’Connor commented: “It is excellent that the Considerate Constructors Scheme has introduced Honor Goodsite. As a woman working in construction, I can thoroughly recommend it as a great industry to work in. The variety of careers and opportunities in the construction industry is vast, and I am sure Honor Goodsite will help young children and their parents to see that construction is an exciting, rewarding industry, which is open to everyone”.

Women’s Engineering Society’s Chief Executive Dawn Bonfield MBE commented: “The Women’s Engineering Society praises the Considerate Constructors Scheme in creating Honor Goodsite. We are delighted that Honor Goodsite’s profession is as an engineer, and we are sure that her role will inspire and educate future generations of schoolchildren into the construction sector, and promote greater gender diversity and equality in the workplace.”

All Scheme-registered sites, companies, suppliers and clients are eligible to hire Honor Goodsite for any community, school related, or other educational/charitable events. For more information about Honor and Ivor Goodsite click here.

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October 01, 2016 at 07:48PM