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14-07-2016

Government Statement on EU Nationals after Brexit vote

An official statement from the British Government on the rights of EU nationals in the UK is expected to ease concerns for contractors over the futures of thousands of EU workers in construction jobs across the country. The industry, already gripped by a skills shortage in recent years, has seen

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12-07-2016

Poll: Construction Industry Embraces Carbon Reduction Trend

A new poll has revealed that three quarters of UK construction companies now operate a low carbon or carbon reduction strategy. The survey was carried out by fleet management firm TomTom Telemetrics, and also found that 58% of the 149 UK construction companies questioned regularly monitor and

08-07-2016

Wates Building Futures - Chelsea and Kensington

Wates Construction, one of O’Neill & Brennan’s supply chain partners, are holding their next Building Futures programme in Kensington and Chelsea from 8th to 19th of August. The Building Futures initiative is something that O’Neill & Brennan have been involved with before,

06-07-2016

National Careers Service In-Custody Recruitment Fairs

On Thursday 7th July the national careers service will be holding the latest in a series of in-custody recruitment fairs. This event will take place at HM Prison Elmley on the Isle of Sheppey. With the skills shortage in the construction industry it is a good time to look towards less traditional

01-07-2016

BuildForce - Helping Veterans and Combating the Skills Shortage

BuildForce is an initiative aimed at finding those leaving the armed forces jobs in the construction industry. It is coordinated by the Construction Youth Trust, championed by CIOB as well as several of O’Neill & Brennan’s supply chain partners including founding companies

29-06-2016

S&T Interiors & Contracting Charity Golf Day

On the 27th May S&T Interiors & Contracting hosted their 5th annual charity golf day at the Grove Hotel, Chandler’s Cross, Watford in aid of TackleAfrica. Over £50,000 was raised for the charity on the day! It was a star studded event featuring the likes of 1978 world cup winner

28-06-2016

O'Neill & Brennan named in Preferred Supplier List for Sir Robert McAlpine

O’Neill & Brennan have been named on the preferred supplier list for Sir Robert McAlpine to recruit for their Isle of Wight projects. We will be supplying our recruitment services for Trades & Labour personnel on the company’s upcoming developments. Sir Robert McAlpine currently

20-06-2016

Construction Output Rises in April

Figures released in the past few days have revealed that after several successive months of decline construction output in April was up 2.5% on March’s figures. This is the largest month on month increase in over two years. The April figures show a 2.9% increase in all new work as well as a

17-06-2016

Taylor Wimpey Charity Bike Ride

A big well done to our friends at Taylor Wimpey for completing their mammoth 283 mile bike ride for Help for Heroes- a charity aimed at improving facilities available for servicemen and women who have been wounded or injured in the line of duty- and Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital,

13-06-2016

Building Lives to Cease Operations in June

Construction training charity Building Lives has announced it is to shut down operations by the end of June due to a lack of sustainable funding. The award-winning charity opened its first training academy in 2010 and at one point was training almost 450 people in construction skills needed to

07-06-2016

Get Into the Construction Industry - It's Simple

Routes into construction. It’s well known that construction is in the midst of a skills shortage, in the UK and across most of the world. In recent years people entering the jobs market have tended to look away from the industry towards areas like IT and services. This is partly due to an

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