The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has published its latest set of horizon scans, which highlight the global economic systems and forces that will shape the built environment over the next decade.
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.
Balfour Beatty has secured a £63m contract on behalf of Highways England to develop, design and deliver critical dual carriageway upgrades on the A19 between Norton and Wynyard.
Planners have given the go-ahead to an ambitious new masterplan for Grahame Park in Colindale as part of the transformation of Barnet’s largest housing estate.
Certain parts of the business and assets of British Steel Ltd (BSL) have been officially sold to Jingye Steel (UK) Ltd and Jingye Steel (UK) Holding Ltd (together Jingye).
A site that was supposed to host the world’s most sustainable residential tower has been taken over by developer Southern Grove who will develop 170 affordable homes.
Robert Lukas of HLP Architects in Edinburgh has been erased from the Architects Register following a hearing of ARB’s Professional Conduct Committee (PCC) on 25-28 February 2020.
Plans for the UK’s first city-based wellbeing resort in Manchester at Peel L&P’s TraffordCity have been unanimously approved by Trafford Council’s planning committee.
Planning has been approved for the 58,000 sq ft underground bunker, Storybox, which will see the creation of workspace for industries in the heart of Nine Elms, Vauxhall.
G F Tomlinson has been selected as a key contractor on the new £500m 10-year construction framework, focussing on improving higher education facilities in the West Midlands.
The majority of women working in town planning face barriers climbing the professional ladder because of their gender, according to the Women and Planning study.
The £1.8m capital funding will supply a number of improvements to Piccadilly Gardens' appearance and people’s experience of it – including the demolition of the free-standing part of the concrete wall
CIBSE has updated its Technical Memorandum 40: Health and wellbeing in building services, the new version reflects significant changes in the environmental conditions
HS2 has ‘severe negative impacts’ on wildlife sites and Ancient Woodlands says broadcaster and naturalist Chris Packham, as he launches a new challenge to the Prime Minister’s decision to go ahead with the project.
The Building Research Establishment (BRE) has revealed the winners of its BREEAM Awards 2020, which recognises projects and organisations that provide performance, replicability and innovation.
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.
