Planning, Building & Construction News

Lee Gordon, partner in the planning and infrastructure consents team at Walker Morris, examines whether recent planning reforms have genuinely accelerated data centre delivery or simply provided an alternative route through the planning system

Richard Tibenham, business development manager at IES, discusses the role of CIBSE TM592026 in construction overheating assessment.

Mace Consult’s latest quarterly UK Market View highlights the opportunities devolution could create across housing, transport and public services, while warning that greater local powers alone will not translate into projects on the ground.

The government's construction jobs plan has finally been published, setting out tactics to handle the skills shortage.

This summer’s record-breaking temperatures caused widespread disruption for the construction industry – and climate change is now critical feature in how projects need to be planned. Dr Hugo Minney, network lead of the Association for Project Management’s Sustainability Interest Network, looks at how organisations can better prepare for the risk of extreme weather.

How construction teams can test common data environments and openBIM exchanges, preserve information status and understand the cost of changing platforms.

Construction design technology now shapes how projects get planned and built to give teams earlier visibility into cost and carbon, says Lou Farrell, senior editor of construction and manufacturing at Revolutionized Magazine

Evelyn Long discusses how early planning discipline can improve coordination, productivity, integration, and outcomes for projects.

The UK construction market has recovered from the 2020-2023 downturn, but the growth outlook remains subdued and varies by sector, according to a new report from McBains.

Matt Hickman, refurbishment partnerships director at Lovell Renew, explores why the UK retrofit industry needs to look beyond project numbers and consider what successful refurbishment and retrofit means for the people directly affected by the work.

The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) report highlights issues with BSA knowledge requirements in construction engineering.

A new report from Atradius found that nine in ten (92%) Irish building materials firms fear late payments will affect their business this winter.

Eugenia Maslova, Technical & Regulatory Affairs Advisor at VELUX, asks if the right things are being measured as the Future Homes Standard prepares to come into effect.

Explore how clients can turn BIM information requirements into priced, testable appointments, with clear decisions, delivery dates and acceptance criteria.

Neil Lawson discusses how cooling in heat networks is often ignored, which can be detrimental to meeting carbon targets and buildings needs.

The October 2026 edition of Glenigan’s Construction Review reveals the UK construction sector is experiencing considerable turbulence, with activity weakening across all three key indicators.

The Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) has warned that the 1.5m homes target is currently set to be missed by a full third, 500,000 homes.

Fire Door Anatomy is designed to help professionals across the built environment understand fire doors and their components in greater depth.

Vivek Sharma, executive director and founding member at Xpedeon, addresses the wider ‘evidence-readiness’ challenge in construction and how having documents is not the same as having current, accessible and traceable records.

Jen Lemen BSc (Hons) FRICS of Property Elite looks at five hot topics within planning, building and construction that surveyors should be aware of.

Richard Watson, education environment specialist at Net Zero Buildings, explains how offsite construction can help deliver low-carbon schools.