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.
Midlands Connect has written to PM Boris Johnson stating that any delay or downgrade of HS2 is a “serious concern” and further leaks are “simply unacceptable".
The international trade secretary, Liz Truss, announced that UK Export Finance (UKEF) has provided financing worth £620m to support UK infrastructure exports to Ghana, Zambia, Gabon and Uganda.
Labour peer Lord Mendelsohn has introduced legislation to help tackle the issue of late payments in construction and to strengthen the powers of the small business commissioner.
The design of new housing schemes in England is ‘mediocre’ and ‘poor’, leading to ‘a decade of disastrous housing design’, according to research conducted by UCL for CPRE and the Place Alliance.
Garden Communities can help meet local housing needs, but require confidence over implementation to avoid housing delivery failure, says Lachlan Anderson-Frank of planning and development consultancy Lichfields.
In the wake of Boris Johnson’s election win, Ibrahim Imam, founder of PlanRadar, looks at five things the new prime minister needs to deliver for the construction industry.
The National Audit Office (NAO) has released its latest report, which shows serious delays and increased construction costs for two hospital developments due to the Carillion collapse.
A burglar who raided the Learning Curve Group construction academy in Sunderland has been convicted after he dropped a blood-stained tissue at the scene.
Aberdeen Standard Investments’ AIPUT fund (Airport Industrial Property Unit Trust) has won a grant for planning permission for Black Arrow, a warehouse development at its Blackthorne Point industrial estate in Poyle.
Simon Lewis and Michelle Essen of WBD take a look at some of the key legal changes and industry developments for construction in 2019, and highlight a few things to expect in 2020.
Avanton are looking at a range of options for the transformation of the gasholder on the landmark gasholders site, including creating London’s first alligator park.
Zoe Stollard, a partner in national law firm Clarke Willmott’s construction team, looks at the importance of getting the fundamentals right to avoid disputes in construction further down the line.
‘What’s the damage? Why HS2 will cost nature too much', a new report, published by The Wildlife Trusts reveals the vast scale of the destruction and impact that HS2 will cause to nature.
Demolition is now underway on the west side of the Gascoigne Estate, making way for the delivery of more than 200 new homes in Barking over the next two years.
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.
