Planning, Building & Construction News

Greg Carter, partner at Winckworth Sherwood’s construction team, discusses interacting with building warranty providers.

Plans for 5000 Heathrow youth apprenticeships have been announced, alongside 108,000 jobs in the wider industry.

The Oxford Flood Alleviation Scheme will protect all properties vulnerable to flood risk along the River Thames, creating savings of more than £1.8 billion by reducing flood damage and disruption.

Construction does not have a scheduling problem; it has a planning problem, writes Mark Chapman, head of innovation at Eleco

Will new towns solve Britain’s housing problem? Only if barriers to delivery are properly addressed, writes Victoria du Croz, partner and head of planning at Forsters

John Taylor, Publications Manager at BSRIA, explores what the move toward machine-readable information means for how buildings are designed.

Five new NISTA members have been appointed to the Expert Advisory Council to support government objectives in infrastructure delivery.

Morgan Sindall Construction is delivering a £17m new Greenway Junior School in Horsham, designed around flexible learning, inclusive spaces and low-carbon operation.

Hugh Simpson, chief executive of the ARB, discusses architectural professional access in the wake of their ongoing consultation.

With the Climate Change Committee warning that, 20 years after the passage of the Climate Change Act, the UK remains poorly prepared for the physical risks  brought about by climate change, Lee Adcock, group sustainability director at Genuit Group, argues that climate adaptation in the built environment increasingly comes down to delivery capability, rather than policy ambition alone.

Tertius Wolfaardt, architecture and engineering manager for South Asia - Pacific at Axis Communications, discusses why security systems must be embedded at the earliest stages of data centre design to support uptime, efficiency and trust.

Greater flexibility on funding is needed to ensure that SuDS not only deliver but are also affordable for everyone, says Jo Bradley, convenor of British Water’s Sustainable Water Management Focus Group

Colin Rees, co-lead of consultancy at IES, discusses the Artificial Intelligence cooling problem in Europe and ways to handle it.

John Smith, technical director at Donaldson Timber Systems, explains that the key to achieving maximum benefit from offsite manufacturing is having the right technical conversations as early as possible.

The fall in output follows four consecutive increases in the three-monthly series, with strong growth in the three months to April and May of 1.3% and 1.5%, respectively.

The Skelton Primary School construction project will replace the school’s existing building with a new two-storey, energy-efficient facility.

The 2026 Autumn Budget is looming, and the CECA are among the first construction organisations to submit evidence ahead of its reveal.

In part 2 of this series, Justin Kirby examines where site disconnects occur and asks whether plotting these issues along a maturity journey helps explain why current approaches stall.

A new report by RE:UK has exposed a weakness in not utilising the UK's rooftop solar capacity, saying we are missing out on 60GW of energy.

Terry Woodley, managing director, development finance at Shawbrook, explores changing market conditions and why flexibility must be considered for successful development.

Three months on from the publication of the CLC's construction mental health code, the RVT Group examines its impact and future.