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Knauf Proudly Sponsors The Constructing Excellence SECBE Awards 2024
We are thrilled to announce our sponsorship of the Construction Excellence SECBE Awards 2024. The prestigious regional awards, renowned for its commitment to recognising excellence and innovation in the construction industry across London and the South East, are set to take place on June 27th 2024.
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We Proudly Announce Partnership with the Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity
We are delighted to announce we are now an official company supporter of the Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity. The partnership underscores our commitment to nurturing a positive impact within the construction sector by championing the wellbeing and mental health of industry professionals.
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Architectural Association Students Visit Our Sittingbourne Site
Our Sittingbourne factory and head office recently had the pleasure of hosting students from the Architectural Association in London.
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We Introduce Plasterboard Recycling Scheme
Knauf UK and Ireland are pleased to announce their new partnership with Encore Environment to deliver an enhanced waste management service to reduce plasterboard waste.
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Enforcing the Building Safety Act
The Building Safety Act sets out to radically change the construction industry. In the past both Latham and Egan both attempted, with limited success, to bring about change, so why will be different this time around?
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Competence and The Building Safety Act
A defining element of the Building Safety Act is the requirement it places on all those in the construction industry to be competent to ensure compliance with the Building Regulations.
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THE BUILDING SAFETY ACT NEXT STAGE
From 1 October 2023, the next round of changes to construction practice will be enforced. For those involved in Higher Risk Buildings, this key change requires detailed designs to be signed off by the Building Safety Regulator before site work can begin.
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Inspiring People
Once again, Knauf is celebrating Black History Month, and this year we are focusing on inspiration, with our #Salutingoursisters programme.
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We partner with leading organisations across construction industry to tackle the lack of diversity
We have partnered with ten other major organisations across the construction industry to establish the Construction Inclusion Coalition (CIC) to improve equity, diversity and inclusion in the sector.
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Leading with competence
The Grenfell tragedy shone a horrifying light on decades of under-investment in skills and knowledge across the construction industry. The resulting Building Safety Act is looking to fix many of the problems and manufacturers have an important role to play.
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People: The undervalued resource
The construction industry is on a cliff-edge. Already struggling to fill vacancies across the board we are faced with an aging workforce, 25% of whom are due to retire in the next ten years. We struggle to recruit, to train and retain talent. How did we get into this mess and how can we pull ourselves out of it?
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Top Awards for Knauf Apprentices
We are delighted to share that two of our Apprentices, Sarah Olusola, HR Support Apprentice, and Olly Julier, Digital Marketing Apprentice have each taken home a top award.
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