Coronavirus

[V8Druid]

Someone has won a contract for another 7-day hospital!

well let's hope they get a cast iron contract in place

Coronavirus and the JCT construction contract

What happens if the Covid-19 pandemic means that UK construction sites have to shut down? Claims consultant Arbicon offers some free advice.

www.theconstructionindex.co.uk

wonder who spent how many hours drafting this eloquent BS bollox ......

Coronavirus: A joint statement from Build UK and CECA

Construction industry trade groups Build UK and the Civil Engineering Contractors Association have issued the following statement:

www.theconstructionindex.co.uk

 

[V8Druid]

FFS !!!!!!!

Coronavirus: Consulting engineers ask government for laptops

Consulting engineers have asked the government for grants to buy their employees hardware and software to enable them to work from home.

www.theconstructionindex.co.uk

 

[V8Druid]

interesting/alarming reading ...

Significant new model of COVID-19 spread influences UK & US responses

A new report, from the world’s leading epidemic modeling group at Imperial College London, is suggesting intensive active suppression, including isolation of all cases and extreme social distancing measures, may be the most effective immediate intervention to reduce mortality and healthcare demand…

newatlas.com

you all need to read this...... P14/15/16 particularly

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/ide/gida-fellowships/Imperial-College-COVID19-NPI-modelling-16-03-2020.pdf

 

[V8Druid]

bet the latest owners are cursing the timing of their takeover

Ainscough's new owners leave COO in charge

New private equity owners of Britain’s biggest mobile crane hire company have completed a financial restructuring of the business but have no plans to appoint a new chief executive.

www.theconstructionindex.co.uk

also very interesting how the brothers kept it well under wraps

 

[Komatsu]

Just heard Hillhead has been put back till next year

 

[Grahams]

Just heard Hillhead has been put back till next year

Was just going to post the same:

Hillhead postpones to 22–24 June 2021

In light of the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Hillhead 2020 is being postponed by 12 months. Hillhead event director Richard Bradbury explains: ‘The health and safety of exhibitors, visitors, contractors and employees is our number one priority and with the peak of the epidemic predicted to coincide with the show in June, this would be severely compromised. ‘Following an extensive consultation process, the decision has been taken to delay the event by a year to allow market conditions to stabilise and to best support the construction and quarrying industry during this challenging period.’ Also, following industry consultation, Plantworx – previously scheduled for next year – will be put back a year. Rob Oliver, chief executive of the Construction Equipment Association, comments: ‘Whilst we are, of course, reluctant to change our plans for Plantworx 2021, these are unprecedented times. In the interests of both our sets of exhibitors and the industry as a whole, we will shortly announce our new dates for the next Plantworx in June 2022 at our Peterborough home.’ The Hillhead team look forward to welcoming you back to Hillhead Quarry, Buxton, next June.

 

[Regy53]

This is unreal

 

[Lynchy]

This is unreal

And all the while China pushes ahead,Shanghai power predicts it's thar cpec coal generation,$3 billion project will be producing in 2022,which unlocks the $100billion cpec Pakistan project,no doubt buying all the factory's/ equipment from......China
Check out orcp-lon,dyor of course

 

[V8Druid]

" a large volume of COVID-19 cases have gone undetected. An Imperial College London study from February estimated two-thirds of all cases worldwide may have gone undetected. And, although this does imply a large number of people may contract COVID-19 and only suffer mild, or even imperceptible symptoms, it also makes the virus’ spread incredibly difficult to control and track. " .... “The explosion of COVID-19 cases in China was largely driven by individuals with mild, limited, or no symptoms who went undetected,” ... " these milder undocumented cases were most likely responsible for causing 79 percent of the subsequent documented cases. "

Study finds COVID-19 spread in China fueled by “stealth transmission”

A new study published in the journal Science has tracked the spread of the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV2, across China in January concluding 86 percent of early infections were undocumented. The researchers suggest a “radical increase” in identification of undocumented cases is vital to slow the…

newatlas.com

 

[Grahams]

And all the while China pushes ahead,Shanghai power predicts it's thar cpec coal generation,$3 billion project will be producing in 2022,which unlocks the $100billion cpec Pakistan project,no doubt buying all the factory's/ equipment from......China
Check out orcp-lon,dyor of course

If we are not careful China will come out of this owning half of the 3rd world and and most of the natural resources.

 

[Gunners]

Boys, Ive solved it. No more recession with this baby. Remote control cash machine remover.

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[Lynchy]

If we are not careful China will come out of this owning half of the 3rd world and and most of the natural resources.

Another company I follow has got mining machinery shipping from China,left this week,full steam ahead over there

 

[V8Druid]

Boys, Ive solved it. No more recession with this baby. Remote control cash machine remover.

MOROOKA MS25 TRACKED DOZZER C/W PALFINGER PC3300 CRANE & *REMOTE CONTROL DRIVE* | eBay

Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for MOROOKA MS25 TRACKED DOZZER C/W PALFINGER PC3300 CRANE & *REMOTE CONTROL DRIVE* at the best online prices at eBay! Free delivery for many products!

www.ebay.co.uk

those Agrisales again ..... they certainly find some unusual kit ... pretty good price for that if it's a decent as it looks and you have a job for it

 

[V8Druid]

If we are not careful China will come out of this owning half of the 3rd world and and most of the natural resources.

yeh well .... sacrifice a few thousand of yer elderly and give the world the biggest shitstorm it's ever seen .... then clean up in the aftermath

 

[Jimbo69]

House builder I’m subbied in to have cut all their hours. I have 3 floor slabs to finish and that’s me done with them so probably got until the end of next week. I’m hoping this all blows over quickly.

 

[Lynchy]

Heard NR continuing construction jobs till April then routine maintenance only,any trains passed us today literally one or two people on

 

[Regy53]

The thing with China is, two months ago they welded peoples doors closed and fed them through their windows. Two months later they are hopefully through the worst.

We are not thst sort of place and I fear this will go on and on for months and months

Reference work, people have been buying stuff, its difficult to know where we are in a few weeks let alone months.

 

[GazCro]

The other thing about China is we may only know what they want us to know, could still be rife over there how would we know.

 

[Grahams]

Very unimpressed, having had an email yesterday from Premier Inn to say they are staying open unless the government force them to close I have just had an email from Whitbread saying they are closing all their restaurants. That’s me in real trouble. I’m already down over 50% this year and if I can’t work away things are pretty serious.

 

[Alan caddy]

Its getting pretty grim up here now supermarkets empty chemist's restricting to only a couple of customers at a time, ferry's have stopped taking bookings turn up and hope you get on hot food been stopped on the ferry's to only prepackaged food, could stop ferry any time to passengers too, on the bright side can get to work site faster as roads are pretty quite