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Roof condition surveys
V B Johnson
building surveying division have just finished
carrying out full roof condition surveys for Britvic
Soft Drinks Ltd at all their UK manufacturing and
distribution plants.
Using truck-mounted platforms capable of providing working heights up to 50m every roof was surveyed in great detail to determine their condition.
Do you know the condition of your roof? Don't wait until it is too late - most people only know there is something wrong when the roof fails and water ingress or damage occurs. Let us survey your roof and prepare a condition report including identfying any defects and required maintenance works. We can also organise the works to be carried out and put in place a maintenance programme to ensure that your roof performs correctly in the future.
New Biodiesel Plant
V B Johnson LLP have been appointed as lead consultants, quantity surveyors, cost managers and CDM co-ordinators on a new bio-diesel plant in the UK. With construction due to commence in 2010 the plant will help support the drive towards alternative energy sources and reduced CO2 emissions.
City College, Sheffield
After a 3-year construction programme, the
£45million 9-storey City College in Sheffield
will be completed this year. V B Johnson LLP are
appointed as quantity surveyors and cost managers.
Primarily a new build project, the facility replaces the much of the old Sheffield College Castle Campus. The works are being carried out in phases with the existing campus facilities kept operational until students and staff can be decanted into the new facilities.
Roof-mounted wind turbines, photovoltaic panels, sophisticated natural ventilation, district heat and power supplies, and on-site composting are all incorporated in the development to give the project a high BREEM rating.
Market Report 4th Quarter 2009
According to revised data from the Office of National Statistics construction output rose by 1.9% in the third quarter of 2009 exceeding the originally estimated 1.1% fall. The increase in output contributed to gross domestic product contracting by 0.2% in the third quarter rather than the 0.3% initially predicted. It was hoped that GDP may have been in positive territory and marked the end of the recession but production and services industries preformed worse than originally estimated. Overall GDP in the third quarter was 5.1% lower than Q3 2008.
The latest forecast from the CBI is that the UK economy will have exited recession by the start of 2010. The organisation considers that the economy will grow slowly, by 1.2% in 2010, and by 2.5% in 2011. However, this still means that even by the end of 2011 output will still not have returned to pre-recession levels. It also forecasts that business investment, which fell heavily throughout 2009, should start to recover in the spring of 2010 but is likely to remain hindered by excess capacity, weak demand, and credit supply issues. John Cridland, CBI Deputy Director-General, stated: "The outlook is brightening as the global economy finds its feet, although we will need to keep our nerve during early 2010, and there is no sign of a clear driver of strong economic growth. In the spring many staff will face another cycle of wage freezes, and job losses will continue rising until the autumn".