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.
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.
VolkerFitzpatrick has delivered the £13.7m project under budget, to redevelop the Department of Media, Culture and Language facilities for the University of Roehampton.
GMI Construction has been awarded a contract by Muse Developments to construct a new 12,000 sq ft office for the Department for Work and Pensions in South Shields.
Concord London has appointed Kier to deliver Marylebone Square, a £106m scheme in Central London on the site of the former Moxon Street car park and the last whole city block in the W1 postcode to be developed.
A new pilot project has secured funding to increase the use of home-grown timber in UK construction and develop the country’s first engineered timber manufacturing plant.
The total value of construction contract awards in October 2020 was £4.9bn based on a three-month rolling average, according to Barbour ABI’s Economic & Construction Market Review.
The new Offsite Show will be organised by Industry Expo, in partnership with Buildoffsite and will be co-located with UK Construction Week (UKCW), UK Construction Week Summits and Grand Designs Live.
Alumno has been given planning approval by Leeds Council to build a seven-storey building that will provide accommodation for the city’s growing student population.
Galliford Try, ISG, Morgan Sindall and Willmott Dixon are amongst the contractors who have won a spot on the Constructing West Midlands (CWM) framework.
The £350m Grange University Hospital (GUH) in Gwent, South Wales opened to patients on 17 November – four months ahead of schedule, in a bid to help the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board (ABUHB) respond to winter pressures and Covid-19.
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.
