Not a week goes by without another high street big name either falling into administration, going bust or declaring a loss and slow business. Just recently, gourmet burger kitchen (GBK) announced it would be closing 17 stores to stay afloat. It seems £10 burgers are too much for some people to swallow. But when you look at the burger landscape, it's not a surprise. BK, McD's, Byron, 5Guys, Pattie & Bun, Honest Burgers..... I could go on, but it's fair to say the market is saturated.

No matter what you say about the budget, there seemed to be good news for the construction industry. The promise of more funds available for social housing, and further attempts to speed up the development of new homes to 300,000 per year must be good news…right?

Sometimes it doesn’t matter how much you pay for something, its never guaranteed to be reliable. I speak from experience on this one, several times I think I must have picked the least reliable cars ever made.

At the weekend, a very rare childfree one I might add, my wife and I went out for dinner and some drinks. This is quite literally the first time we have been able to do this since before we were married!!!

There’s something to admire about high-level sports teams. They all work together to achieve their goal of winning. Every player has their own role to perform, at the elite level everyone relies on their teammates completing what they were tasked to do.

From now until the end of September you can take advantage of our summer promotion. If you using Dropbox for construction or any other storage solution for your project drawings and documents you could be paying too much.

“Measure twice, cut once” has been handed down from tradesman to apprentice over the years. The idea is that you double check your information before actually acting on it. Unfortunately, some people missed this lesson and have managed to dodge the bullets all the way to upper management. Thinking they have been lucky to never have a major mishap and now be in a real position of power. Well, sometimes that lesson comes back to bite you…..