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.
The industry-wide challenge launched by Amey's Utilities business has entered its next stage, following an intensive week of assessment of entries by an expert task force.
Winvic Construction has reached practical completion of its first build-to-rent scheme, also the first purpose-built accommodation of this type in Leicester city centre.
Balfour Beatty, working in partnership with Thames Water, has saved over one million plastic bags from landfill by utilising a waste plastic asphalt on a key London cycle lane in Stratford, through the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
Kier were quickly deployed to Whaley Bridge in Derbyshire to activate an emergency drawdown plan at Toddbrook Reservoir on behalf of the Canal & River Trust.
Weekly earnings for freelance tradespeople in the construction sector continued to build last month, according to latest figures released by Hudson Contract.
A change of policy to shift away from housing benefits to direct provision of council housing is long overdue, it will save money in the long run too, says GMB London.
Making Tax Digital is the latest move from the UK government to modernise the tax system, here are five key things contractors and subcontractors should know about Making Tax Digital.
EN:Procure is seeking experienced and qualified contractors to bid for a place on their new framework to deliver affordable and mixed tenure new build housing schemes.
The National Federation of Builders (NFB) has written to Sajid Javid MP to ask for the 1 October 2019 introduction of domestic reverse charge VAT to be delayed until April 2020.
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.
