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.
BDB Pitmans has won a Development Consent Order (DCO) for Manston Airport by the Department for Transport, Manston Airport will re-open in the first quarter of 2023.
Trudi Beswick, CEO of the RICS Project of the Year 2019 winner Caudwell Children, is calling on the government, councils and the wider construction industry to prioritise truly accessible design as part of the “build, build, build” recovery plan.
Linkcity, the development arm of Bouygues UK, has been appointed the preferred development partner for the ‘Triangle’ site on the St Thomas’ campus at Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Landmark Information has introduced a Consultants Coal Mining Report through its Envirocheck service to provide environmental consultants with essential data.
Plans for 20 new garden towns and garden villages could create 200,000 car-dependent households, according to research by Transport for New Homes. Sustainable transport campaigner Steve Chambers discusses the findings.
A report from BW, Copper and WBD calls for changes to a disconnected planning system which has held up infrastructure delivery, imposing risk on projects and investments.
Ramsey Assal, founder of The Landsite, shares his advice on the best ways of sourcing and connecting with the right contractors to achieve a more sustainable development.
Mitie is building on its support for Britain’s efforts against coronavirus by providing waste management and security services for a further seven Covid-19 testing sites.
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.
