
Public Health England: Covid-19 Early Outbreak Management
Public Health England (PHE) have provided advice on reporting cases of Covid-19 at your business premises. In the case of construction companies those business premises are both the company office and building sites. This is what they say: As an employer, you have a duty to ensure your staff report any symptoms of Covid-19 and…

HSE Construction Health Inspection Initiative – October 2020
This month the HSE is carrying out its latest construction health inspection initiative with health and safety inspectors targeting construction sites across Great Britain. Here are the details: The initiative will run from Monday 5 – Friday 30 October As with previous health inspection initiatives, the focus will be on respiratory risks. COVID-security is a…

How to make your building firm stand out from the competition with 3D models
Does your building firm stand out from your competitors? When costs are close there’s often little to choose between competing building firms – so what’s a homeowner to do? What is it that gets companies on to the short list? Visuals. Lovely images of what could be. Basically, an impressive visualisation of a dream extension…

Chancellor’s Winter Economy Plan – what it means for UK Building Firms
The Winter Economy Plan has been announced! James Powell, from HBXL’s network partners, Comera Professional, runs through the Statement from the Chancellor on Thursday 24 September 2020. He explains the key points for small to medium sized building firms. New Job Support Scheme Firstly, the furlough scheme is not being extended, though there wasn’t much…

How to calculate the cost of being Covid-19 secure on the building site
Now you can calculate the cost of being Covid-19 secure – take a look further down the page at the step-by-step screen shots of the new Covid-19 Estimating Calculator in EstimatorXpress 2020. Being Covid-19 Secure on the building site comes at a price – one that needs to be passed on to your customers. After…

Automated Gantt Chart and new Rounding tool – new EstimatorXpress 2020 update
EstimatorXpress 2020 has had more new features added to it and Jim the HBXL Technical Director explains two of them in the webinar recording here. The EstimatorXpress 2020 Gantt Chart has just got really clever. And that’s because the development team has super-charged the Build Programme tool, as it’s also called. This advanced version uses…