David Meek, CEO of This Land, explores the challenges facing Cambridgeshire's water infrastructure and how planners and developers can optimise their designs accordingly.
The complexities and sometimes confusions of sustainability in construction put specifiers in a daunting position, with even apparently responsible choices of material –including picking recycled aluminium – leaving a host of questions still to be answered.
David West, associate ecologist at Tetra Tech, explores the need to ensure a harmonious co-existence of Biodiversity Net Gain and infrastructure projects.
Public bodies will be able to convert vacant plots of land and derelict buildings into new homes or community spaces, under plans announced by the housing secretary, Robert Jenrick.
At the end of 2020, Federation of Master Builders members elected Jan Etchells as the organisation’s new national president, the first woman to take on the role. Here, Jan sets out the priorities for her two-year term at this challenging time for the SME building industry.
The latest figures reflect the housing and construction industry’s resilience and measures they have taken to keep building sites open, in line with public health advice.
Glasgow City Council has approved the Strategic Housing Investment Plan, which will see £469.71m housing investment for the construction of over 4,400 affordable homes.
On 21 December 2020, the ARB's Professional Conduct Committee (PCC) issued Lawrence Stephen Nardi from Basingstoke, Hampshire with a reprimand after failure to provide adequate terms of engagement.
The University of Surrey has been awarded £1.8m from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to investigate how increased construction of tall buildings will impact the meteorology, air quality, and climate of towns and cities in the UK.
The possibility of extreme coastal flood events could increase from the current rate of once every 100 years to every year by 2050, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
With Scotland setting ambitious net zero carbon goals, Lindsey Mitchell, architect director at BDP’s Glasgow Studio, discusses her experiences in designing successful, sustainable school projects.
When it comes to bidding for new clients, design and construction specialist Dan Grimshaw of Beam Developments explains why he walks away if the process involves competitive tender when it’s based on cost alone.
Rob Hopwood, planning partner at planning consultants Bidwells, discusses the Oxford-Cambridge Arc and highlights the key priorities for realising the area’s potential as a major economic powerhouse for the UK.
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.
In this article, we talk to Iain Thomson, CEO of Assent, and Adam Melrose, director at Clarke Banks, about some of the issues affecting the world of building control and what the industry needs to do to tackle them head-on.
