Ethics Award Makes Construction History - 09/08/2006
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR) history has been made as a mainstream UK building company won its third consecutive Award for its positive impact on society from the Business in the Community. This is the first time a UK construction firm has won such successive Awards, demonstrating that ethics in Construction are not dead.
Timber firm has nerves of…steel? - 22/05/2006
EMPLOYEES AT ONE of the top Welsh Timber Frame building firms watched in horror last week as their colleague ‘free-fall’ abseiled off the top of Newport’s largest bridge for charity.
Official: Best Place to Work in Timber Frame - 11/05/2006
THE TEAM AT Benfield ATT are celebrating this week, after being announced as the only timber frame finalist in the ‘Best Places to Work in Construction’ Awards 2006.
Timber Framed House Feature for W6 - 19/04/2006
Benfield ATT is to supply a two-storey timber framed building as a major feature at the W6 Working with Wood exhibition (NEC 8-11 October 2006).
Get Politics out of Planning...to get Ethical - 08/03/2006
CENTRAL & LOCAL GOVERNMENT should surrender control of planning permits and policy to an independent body of ‘Resource Stewards’, urged Professor Michael Benfield, keynote speaker to the National Sustainable Regeneration Conference 2006 held in Birmingham.
"Clients to blame for lack of sustainability in construction" cries industry - 10/02/2006
SUSTAINABILITY FACTORS HIGHLY in the future of housing construction, but clients are not embracing this vital issue sufficiently, new research claims.
Sub-Contractors: Tired of the Lump - 25/01/2006
WITH THE C.I.T.B. PREDICTING a shift back to direct employment by many self employed sub-contractors, Benfield ATT 'one of the UK's foremost Timber Frame Engineering organisations' today announced its 'Specialist Skill Security'? (SSS) scheme for experienced Construction trades people.