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.
Public services provider, Amey, has secured a £100m three-year contract extension to provide reactive and proactive maintenance work across Yorkshire Water’s sewer network.
With the Covid-19 crisis bringing many building projects to a standstill, Alex Rayner, head of construction and engineering at award-winning law firm Sintons, examines the potential contractual options that exist if work has to stop for a period of time.
Cumbria County Council’s replacement bridge project at Pooley Bridge is set to resume today (20 April), following a review of the authority’s construction schemes in response to the outbreak.
TRADA’s University Challenge 2020 saw students from across the UK design timber community housing that is low-carbon, energy and water efficient, climate-resilient, healthy and desirable.
A deal with government housing agency, Homes England and Birmingham City Council has been agreed to release land and create one of the city’s largest developments.
Although the issue has been partially obscured from public view by the coronavirus crisis, the UK government has said that work to replace flammable cladding on residential buildings of 18m or taller remains a priority. Helen Andrews, a construction law partner at Fieldfisher, takes a look.
The RTPI has called on the government to issue planning guidance to prevent delays to development and knock-on effects to the economy further down the line.
The Real Face of Construction 2020 report from the Chartered Institute of Building reflects the true value of the industry in economic, social and environmental terms – and sets a course for addressing some of the sector’s key issues.
Cashflow has dried up for nearly 80% of firms in the construction industry in Scotland, as more than two-thirds of companies say they’ve furloughed staff, according to a new survey.
Lovell Partnerships and Homes England have agreed deals worth £140m, to deliver 500 new homes on two former Ministry of Defence (MoD) sites in Yorkshire and Wiltshire.
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.
