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.
Ross Keatley of the Immigration Advice Service, an organisation made up of immigration solicitors, examines the potential impact of Brexit on the construction and engineering workforce.
The latest edition of the Economic & Construction Market Review from industry analysts Barbour ABI, highlights the value of all construction contract awards in July 2019.
A one-day conference intended to educate, inspire and empower architects, engineers, suppliers and clients to design and build better timber buildings.
Interserve has been selected to deliver major multiple projects as part of the estates' infrastructure improvement programme for St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in South London.
It’s time for the construction industry to set aside the wrecking ball and rethink how it uses brownfield land, argues Nick Russell, director of civil and structural engineering consultancy Thomasons.
Willmott Dixon is set to play a key role in the next stage of Greater Brighton Metropolitan College’s growth plans after it was chosen for a £14m contract.
Over 600 lots from Aspin Group Limited, now in administration are being offered for sale by national asset and property consultancy Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH).
Housebuilding is an emotive issue at the best of times but in the face of a full-blown crisis in supply, the need to deliver many more homes, in the right places, cannot be ignored. Joe Ridgeon, director of Hedley Planning Services, examines the key issues affecting supply.
The first phase of Liberty Park, Widnes, has been completed, with a speculative warehouse and site infrastructure being delivered to provide the only new-build unit over 50,000 sq ft in the Halton and south Liverpool industrial and warehouse market.
Parties can be quite ingenious when it comes to trying to avoid the will of an Adjudicator. They can even resort to playing the game of hide and seek in order to argue “it’s not me governor” and avoid the adjudication but getting away with this line of argument is not always that easy.
Over half of residential property owners in the UK would consider living permanently in an unconventional type of home, according to a recent survey from BLP Insurance.
£41m has been secured by the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) to help unlock hundreds of acres of former industrial land for much-needed new homes.
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.
