11/02/2009
Howarth Timber & Building Supplies is to feature in a new promotional DVD in support of ‘Get Britain Building’, a campaign aimed at reversing the decline in the construction industry.
The campaign, which was launched today (10 February 2009) in Westminster, is demanding that the Government does all it can to prevent 300,000 predicted job losses in the construction sector and to create a framework in which small construction businesses can survive in the recession. The DVD, which can be viewed on YouTube, features organisations that operate throughout the construction cycle, from builders and manufacturers, to materials suppliers such as Howarth Timber & Building Supplies.
“We are very supportive of what ‘Get Britain Building’ is trying to achieve,” said Neale Brewster from Howarth Timber & Building Supplies. “Of course, its success would bring direct benefits to our business, but equally it would mean that countless other people who either work in, or are associated with the construction sector, will be able to safeguard their futures better, along with the jobs of those they employ.”
Get Britain Building is a coalition of several organisations in the construction sector, including British Precast, The Builders Merchants Federation, the Federation of Master Builders and trhe Modern Masonry Alliance. Chris Pateman, Managing Director of the Builders Merchants Federation said, “This isn’t just a campaign about businesses or figures or even about jobs; it’s a campaign about people. We all need the government to create conditions in which people can borrow money at sensible rates or have the confidence to invest their savings in those millions of pent-up garage conversions, house extensions and roof insulation jobs that can make an immediate and quantifiable improvement to individual families’ quality of life. At the same time, our aim is to improve the quality and energy-efficiency of the built environment, reduce the waiting lists for social housing and take some pride in the size, scope and skills of the nation’s largest industry – building.”
Howarth Timber & Building Supplies is part of the Howarth Timber Group, the UK’s largest privately owned timber companies. The business encompasses a network of timber and builders’ merchant branches, Howarth Windows & Doors and Howarth Timber Engineering.
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