A great start to Open Doors Week 🎉

During #BuildUK #OpenDoors, 314 visitors explored 12 Tilbury Douglas sites in the North, discovering the exciting opportunities in construction. It's great to see so many inspired by the industry! #TilburyDouglas #ConstructionCareers

⌛10 DAYS TO GO⌛ There are just 10 days remaining to take advantage of BESA Academy's fully funded Heat Networks Foundation Course. This is your opportunity to upskill, free of charge. Secure your place before it is too late. Registration link below. #HeatNetworks #Upskill

The CyberFirst Girls Competition empowers 12 to 13 year-old girls to develop cyber security skills, diversifying the UK’s tech space 👾 We're partnering with IBM who will be hosting the online platform for the 2025 round. Find out more 👉 gov.uk/government/new…

Thank goodness you did come home 🥰

All Build UK members, including those in membership of our 34 Trade Associations, that pay, or are likely to pay, the CITB levy get to have their say on its future 💷 Make sure you exercise your vote via the really (really) short survey circulated by your Trade Association ✍

Build UK has updated its guide to the validation stage at Gateway Two, which sets out the documents that should be included within an application for Building Control Approval. Read the updated guide here: BuildUK.org/Validation

Glorious sunshine at UKREiiF in Leeds this morning 🥐 breakfast with Mace 👧🏻 catch up with the fab Sophie Timms Kier Group 🏗️ panel with Wates Group next A busy start for Build UK

Neat use of tech at UKREiiF so everyone can hear the presentation 🎧 And after this one - Bolton here we come 🤩

Read all about ‘Diamond Julie’ on the C&W Chamber of Commerce news page 🗞️ cw-chamber.co.uk/news/d-drill-2… #SME #construction #drillingandsawing

Camera work, production and animal management (Ralph The Retriever not John Nichol ✈) all my own work 📹 🎬 🐾 Please do vote - it really does mean a lot - and a great way to support those that serve and keep us safe ❤️

Reported an overflow via X, WhatsApp and given up on the ‘leak reporting’ website as water pours out the ‘New River’ in Ware when it can be controlled. So much waste and no response 😔 Thames Water 💧 #NeedWelliesToGetToWork

As Thames Water 💧 radio adverts & hosepipe bans urge me to save water the ‘overspill’ from the New River (which can be controlled) continues weeks after being reported - wasting gallons of water every day… it is NOT a small amount of water…

Still going Thames Water 💧 - just how much ‘spare water’ do you have 🤔

For every retweet of this post, I will donate £1 to the Victoria Cross and George Cross Association up to £50,000. Time is running out following Imperial War Museums’s decision to close the Lord Ashcroft Gallery. Visit while you still can, to honour the bravery of those who risked so much to protect our great nation.

New Build UK guidance has summarised actual feedback from the BSR with the reasons for the rejection of Gateway Two applications shown against the Approved Documents ⬇️

Great opportunity with a great company ⬇️

Fancy a signed copy of THE UNKNOWN WARRIOR just out in paperback? Repost for the chance to win a signed hardback. You've got to be in it to win it!