Construction
Industry
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General
Information About the Construction Industry
Target provide
useful background information about the Construction Industry, so that you can find
out what the different types of jobs and careers in the construction sector. If
you don’t know what Building Services are, what contractors and consultants do,
these web sites will tell you.
Ø Construction and Building
Services
Current and up to date news about the
construction Industry is available via this link to TARGET
JOBS
Consulting Engineers Database
The Engineering Council have set up a database
devoted to Engineering Consultancies spread across the field of Engineering
activities, but mainly concentrated on Civil, Structural, M & E
(Mechanical & Electrical) and Geotechnical areas.
It contains contact information,
and is searchable by type of activity plus UK/European region. Some of the Entries also contain
hyperlinks directly to the Company's own in-house website and direct e-mail
addresses.
Association of Consulting Engineers
(ACE)
The ACE site gives
information about consultancies and is especially useful for Regional
office locations and addresses of the large consultancies, as well as the
smaller regionally based players. Simple and easy to search, just click
"Select a Consulting Engineer". It also gives website links.
A Very Long List of Construction
Related Organisations
University of Bath
Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering have
a very long list of organsations involved in the
Construction industry. It is a just a long list of web sites, in useful
groupings and you may recognise many of the names. It
is maintained by Dr Chris Williams who is a CUED Alumnus amongst other things
and has kindly given us permission to add this link.
Contractors
Contractors
are responsible for the construction and maintenance of
buildings, transport systems, and structures. There is a list of them in order
of size of turnover, work in hand and number of people employed Contractors List.
There are also a regional selection criteria as well.
Demolition and Remediation
Instead
of building structures, you might also be interested in knocking them down or
restoring land that has been heavily polluted by industrial use. You can
achieve this aim by working with one of the specialists who deal with
demolition, remediation and re-cycling of buildings and building sites. The National Federation of Demolition
Contractors is the major source of contacts and information and has an
excellent web site.
The Construction Equipment
Association
The
Construction Equipment Association is a trade organisation
for Construction equipment and machinery manufacturers and
suppliers. So it’s good for mechanical and electrical openings, and has some
connections with automotive. The website
is well constructed and easily navigable as well as being available in four
different languages. The members list provides full contact information and
company descriptions.