Tom O’Brien, director, O’Brien Contractors, reflects on the construction commitments made in last week’s Autumn Budget and why these need to go further.
GMB has welcomed the decision to reject the Clarion Housing Group’s appeal for planning permission to replace 70 social housing units at the William Sutton estate.
New research by the National Custom and Self Build Association (NaCSBA) has found that, since 1st April 2016, over 40,000 people have now signed up to Right to Build registers across England.
The UK’s largest union, Unite, has launched a blueprint in the hopes of tackling bandit capitalism in the UK economy and putting an end to future Carillion-style collapses.
BAM Construction has been selected as the main contractor for the construction of Facebook’s new headquarters building at the King’s Cross development in London.
Kier has been appointed by The Pirbright Institute to deliver a new £50m research facility at its Surrey headquarters in a project which forms part of Pirbright’s wider redevelopment of its campus.
The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) has launched its “Improving Quality in the Built Environment” report, to identify what promotes or prevents delivery of quality in construction.
