The Rebuild costs for UK buildings has increased phenomenally over the last 6 months. As a result of the COVID pandemic and UK’s Brexit independence, building materials have sorn dramatically in price. “Prices have risen by between 10% and 15% for products and materials this year”, according to the Builders Merchants Federation (BMF). With a […]
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“Leak claims saw an increase of 30% in the first quarter of 2021 compared to the same time in previous year”, with a total of £175m claims accounted for, according to a recent article by the Insurance Times. In response to this, JRW Risk Solutions are urging homeowners, commercial and residential property owners, landlords and
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As our reliance on IT systems expand, cyber threats continue to be a problem. “Four in ten businesses (39%) and a quarter of charities (26%) report having cyber security breaches or attacks in the last 12 months”, according to recent government data by the Official Statistics Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2021, Published in March 2021.
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Earlier this month, the UK government passed the Building Safety Bill, which has been devised to give homeowners and residents more rights, with an end goal to make safer UK buildings. The new bill aims to overhaul current regulation, setting out a clear outline for how residents in high rise dwellings will be protected for
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Increasingly, manufacturing industries are turning to digital automation and artificial intelligence (AI) within the workplace. By implementing high tech digital automation, digital equipment is used to replace manual assembly processes which further to this, can speed up production, can operate 24/7 and can quickly spot anomalies. Digital automation also feeds back real time data which
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“UK construction has seen the biggest rise in workload since 2016”, according to a recent article by Reuters.com. Driven by a need for more housing, the commissioning of new commercial warehouse projects to support the ever-growing online retail industry and the re-development of towns and cities across the UK. The construction sector is expanding greatly,
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The UK Government’s Plan is to implement net zero emissions by 2050, puts the construction industry along with transport, environmental manufacturing and other industries right at the heart of its changes. Net Zero emissions means that any emissions will be balanced by environmental schemes to offset the equivalent amount of released greenhouse gases in the
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How can businesses protect themselves in terms of cyber risk? The year of 2020 changed the way in which many businesses went about their daily work. Remote home working provided an opportunity to continue carrying out daily work duties but from home rather than in the office, to reduce the transmission of COVID. For some
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Despite the last 12 months of the COVID pandemic having extreme effects on several areas within UK business, the construction industry has remained fairly stable in its production output. With the freedom to work outside or in air-rated spaces and socially distance from other colleagues, the industry has found opportunity to continually operate within their
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The year of 2020 certainly threw a lot of pressure at businesses in terms of adjusting to COVID19 safety regulations and the passing of Brexit. Sadly, it now seems that as we continue into 2021, UK businesses are set to endure further consequences due to the fallout from both situations. As a UK company owner,
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