The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) has urged MPs to reject an amendment to the Renters (Reform) Bill that threatens the future of selective licensing.
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.
Peter Vinden Managing Director of The Vinden Partnership explores how the same insurance-backed guarantees used for domestic properties should be, and are, available for commercial buildings
Engineers at Lancaster University are working with industrial partners at Cellucomp Ltd UK to research how concrete mixtures can be strengthened and made more environmentally friendly by adding ‘nano platelets’ extracted from the fibres of root vegetables
The Committee for European Construction Equipment (CECE) and other industry organisations have launched a draft manifesto for digitalisation in the construction industry
According to a new report, homes of the future will hone into neighbourhood energy systems, use enhanced technology to make automatic decisions about heating, security and postal deliveries and feature flexible layouts
Customers failing to meet payments continue to hamper the growth of small subcontractors across the UK, according to research by specialist financial services provider Bibby Financial Services (BFS) and industry experts, The Vinden Partnership (TVP)
Pegasus Software is a leading supplier of financial and business software solutions with over 20,000 customers across UK and Ireland in Services, Distribution, Manufacturing & Construction industries.
GroupBC, a leading digital information management solution provider to the built environment, has announced that Nationwide Building Society will be using BC Enterprise to support the delivery of their branch investment and the asset replacement programmes
Recent construction output figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), have shown that output fell by 3.4% in April, the biggest fall in the three-month on three-month series of figures since August 2012
The Society of Digital Engineering (SDE), a society of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE), has announced Autodesk as the first member of its Partner Membership scheme
The UK’s housing market is broken at every level with everyone from first timer buyers, second-steppers to downsizers struggling, the latest research has revealed.
Five organisations working to deliver more Custom and Self Build housing opportunities via community-led projects will receive tailored expert advice from the Right to Build Task force
Waste management professionals are urging builders across the UK, to do more to recycle the millions of tonnes of construction waste they throw away each year.
The FIR (Fairness, Inclusion and Respect) Culture Survey 2018, carried out by the Supply Chain Sustainability School, revealed the benefits of FIR on the construction industry, while calling for construction leaders to help embed these cultural changes
Mick George Ltd discuss their involvement on the retirement development in Hadleigh, South Suffolk, as part of a prefered scheme for the brownfield site.
Kier, Homes England and Cross Keys Homes have formed a joint venture (JV) partnership that will deliver up to 5,400 new homes over the next ten years in areas of the country with the greatest need
The liquidation of Carillion will cost UK taxpayers an estimated £148m, the National Audit Office (NAO) has concluded, although it may take several years to ascertain the final cost
Wates Residential and Homes England's ground-breaking project to build 200 homes for local people in Gosport has been given the go-ahead by borough council planning bosses
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.
