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.
Insolvency practitioners from KPMG are expected to take over Clugston Construction’s affairs as the firm reveal to staff it is set to go into administration.
Subject to planning consent, the proposed 115,000 sq ft warehouse at dnata City East will make it comfortably the largest off-site cargo handling operation at the UK’s largest commercial aviation hub.
The former Horlicks factory has received planning permission and will now undergo a residential-led, mixed-use redevelopment in Slough, delivering up to 1,300 new homes.
Cambridge United has announced its new concept for a sustainable stadium, although still in the early stages the scheme will be located on greenbelt land.
Rockwell has announced Gateway Housing Association as its partner to deliver affordable homes at its landmark development at 82 West India Dock Road in Westferry.
Mace has been appointed to ensure that the construction and overall delivery of the government of Jersey’s Our Hospital Project is running as efficiently as possible.
A design team led by FCBStudios has been chosen as the winner of the RIBA Competition for the University of Portsmouth’s new academic building on the Victoria Site.
Martin Jennings, senior vice president at Legends International, discusses how recent changes to safety design guidance for modern sports stadia are being applied in practice.
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.
