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 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 government has announced the launch of a new Future High Streets Fund to invest £675m to develop and fund plans to make town centres fit for the future
Mick George Ltd will be completing enabling works on a new multi-million-pound Katherine Warington School in Harpenden
Having been appointed by the Education and Skills...
Chancellor Philip Hammond has called for an end to the private finance initiative for public contracts, pledging in his Autumn Budget speech to never sign another deal
Laing O’Rourke has said it would not be able to file its annual finance report until Christmas at the earliest, citing “delays with historic turbulence in the construction sector”
A revised planning application for Wretchwick Green in Bicester from Wates Developments and Redrow Homes has received approval from Cherwell District Council’s Planning Committee
Laing O’Rourke has secured the management contract to complete the Royal Liverpool Hospital project, which came to a standstill in January when Carillion collapsed
The Government is set to accept a proposal from the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC), to build 1 million new homes between Oxford, Milton Keynes and Cambridge, a development that the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) says would result in an area of countryside greater than the size of Birmingham being lost
Manchester Metropolitan University has outlined plans to demolish the John Dalton buildings and replace them with a new-build science and engineering campus
Polypipe has agreed to pay £52m for the acquisition of Manthorpe Building Products, which specialises in the manufacturing of moulded and extruded plastic and metal building products
James Topping of Advantage Home Construction Insurance discusses how the private rented sector is set to change the face of the industry and what the future holds for the market
Nearly two-fifths (39%) of the receipts from the Community Infrastructure Levy remains unspent by councils in England and Wales, according to new analysis by the Association for Consultancy and Engineering (ACE)
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.
