Organisers of UK Construction Week (UKCW), the UK’s biggest event for the built environment, have announced the creation of their first-ever Advisory Board, a prestigious panel of top industry leaders.
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.
For the first time in eight years the rate of office building in the UK has returned to pre-recession levels…
Figures from consultancy firm Barbour...
A vote to leave the EU would push the price of construction up, according to London’s largest private housebuilder…
With the referendum set to take...
A seminar aimed at drawing attention to the challenges facing the housing sector has been hosted by BLP Insurance and the British Property Federation…
On...
New figures have revealed a 2.4 per cent recovery in activity across the EU construction sector during 2015…
The European Construction Industry Federation (FIEC) has...
Housebuilding firm Crest Nicholson has warned leaving the EU would have a significant impact on British construction…
Crest Nicholson has warned Brexit would damage the...
Construction and regeneration firm Morgan Sindall has confirmed it has seen losses of £43.1m last year in its construction division…
Changes to the way in...
Share prices for construction equipment provider Ashtead are up, revealing the resiliency of the housing market…
Increased share prices at Ashtead Group, a major construction...
Construction output saw more growth than forecast in April, suggesting the economy might be bouncing back in the second quarter…
After a disappointing start to...
Productivity in the UK construction industry is at an abysmal level according to Richard Ogden, Chairman of the Buildoffsite organisation. He explains how we...
The government is failing to protect communities at risk of flooding according to the Environmental Audit Committee.
A lack of long-term strategic planning to manage...
Ian Streets discusses support for disabled employees
Adaptability is essential in business, and for employers that obviously extends to how they accommodate and support their staff.
People...
The dormouse appears to be getting his revenge, from being a delicacy to now preventing developers from gaining planning consent if mitigation plans are...
The Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) has awarded national housebuilder, Keepmoat, with a landmark £18.3m through the Builders Finance Fund (BFF); which will accelerate...
Developing green belt and brownfield sites for redevelopment in tackling the UK housing crises is firmly on the agenda, but can local authorities deal...
Oliver Johnson, Policy Executive at Environmental Industries Commission outlines the challenges caused by flooding and highlights details from the Turning the Tide report...
Previously occasional,...
The government has cut funding to make brownfield sites appropriate for construction, it has emerged…
MPs on the environmental audit committee have warned funding aimed...
New figures show Zürich, New York, and London are the three most expensive places to build in the world…
Figures from the International Construction Market...
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.
