Luke Simmons of Cora looks at the Homes England grant scheme, its unintended consequences on the housing market and suggests a way it could be made to work better.
In this article, learn about SFS Group's commitment to going beyond standard offerings, providing innovative cladding support systems that elevate building performance and user experience.
A contract to build Powys County Council’s first affordable housing development for social rent in over 40 years has been awarded to a Welsh building company.
Transformed from a low-grade retail park to a multi-million-pound commercial property development, Wellington Place is a successful regeneration project which has to date contributed a total economic value (GVA) of £200m, according to a newly published study.
Lendlease has signed an agreement to develop the Milan Innovation District (MIND), a major new district for science, knowledge and innovation on the former Expo site in Milan, Italy.
The construction products manufacturing sector reported favourable results in the first quarter of 2019, with continued growth in the sales of products and materials.
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, in partnership with the ESA and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has released a design for the ‘Moon Village’.
Weekly earnings for freelance tradespeople in the construction sector continued to grow last month, according to latest figures released by Hudson Contract.
HS2’s enabling works contractor, a Costain and Skanska joint venture (CSjv), working with subcontractors Keltbray, has completed two major demolition projects at Euston.
Savills Financial Consultants has supported Bolton at Home to secure a £100m funding deal, enabling the construction of 785 additional homes across Greater Manchester.
Arup, in a joint venture with Costain, has secured a Health & Safety Assurance consultancy framework contract worth £2m as part of Yorkshire Water’s AMP7 investment programme.
SES Engineering Services has been appointed by Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield to deliver a £9m mechanical services scheme at its M7 commercial development in Stratford, London.
Advantage Insurance (AHCI) have announced that they’ve been building upon a strong period of growth for the business by taking on five new members of staff.
Inland Homes has exchanged contracts for the sale of its Merrielands Crescent site in Dagenham, East London with housing association, Clarion Housing Group.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has provisionally found that three major suppliers of groundworks products to the construction industry broke competition law.
Construction testing and certification company Lucideon has forged a new partnership in Europe to enable UK construction product manufacturers to retain access to EU markets.
Almost 9 in 10 (88%) new build homeowners and three-quarters (76%) of UK adults want ‘snagging retention’, a system to withhold funds to housebuilders until they rectify faults.
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.
