Crown Commercial Service (CCS) has become the first public sector procurement organisation to be verified under Constructing Excellence's ‘Gold Standard Verification Scheme’.
Vincent Matthews, head of UK marketing at SFS, discusses the benefits of working with a product manufacturer in construction to select an appropriate system solution.
UK Construction Week is launching a new initiative for 2018 to help the industry compete for talent. It will do this by taking role models in the industry and elevating their profile and their story in a nationwide publicity campaign through trade and consumer media
Bridge and engineering services specialist, Mabey, have released a new report urging greater collaboration across the supply chain in a bid to tackle the construction industry’s productivity gap
A recent survey by home improvement professionals at Everest gathered geographical data by DCLG to reveal the 10 areas most likely to accept or decline minor planning permissions
Cuddy Group have utilised Pegasus CIS,software solution specifically designed for the construction and contracting industries, in order to manage contracts and costs ease.
Over 50 organisations – including councils, professional bodies and trade associations – have urged the government to reinstate the reference to Garden City principles in the revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF)
The momentum in the UK housing market continues to slow, as buyer demand falls for the twelfth consecutive month, according to the figures from the March 2018 RICS UK Residential Market Survey
According to planning and built environment experts interviewed for a study commissioned by the RTPI, attaching automatic planning permission to housing land allocated in local plans in England would have limited impact on increasing the supply of homes
New research published by property marketplace, TheHouseShop, has revealed that almost half of Brits (45% excluding “don’t know”) believe there will be a housing crash in the next 5 years
The National Site Awards recognise registered sites that have shown the highest levels of consideration towards the public, the workforce and the environment
London Housing Association, Peabody, has named Durkan as the contractor for the first phase of its work on the giant Thamesmead regeneration project in a £45m deal
More than 2,000 people have had their say on the future of social housing by taking part in the Chartered Institute of Housing’s (CIH) Rethinking social housing workshops
Housing Secretary Sajid Javid has announced new measures to professionalise the estate agent market, in the hopes of driving up standards and bringing an end to ‘rogue managing agents’
The UK’s first garden city in a century is expected to expand by nearly £1bn worth of new homes. Major housebuilders are nurturing Ebbsfleet’s roots with some of the biggest land buys since the project’s inception
Rogue landlords who rent out second-rate properties face being forced out of the sector as new banning orders are brought in and a national database of offenders goes live today (6 April)
On 9 April Southbank’s Queen Elizabeth Hall is set to open its doors to the public for the first time since closing for refurbishment at the end of 2015
Assent delivers building control solutions on over 30,000 projects annually; our growing network of 60+ offices means that we are always within one hour of a site anywhere in England and Wales.
Kate Morement, head of risk and compliance, Assent, says much progress has been made by women in construction over the last 20 years, but there is still more to be done.