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Where performance meets practice: The Building Envelope Stage at UKCW Birmingham

UKCW Birmingham will feature the Building Envelope Stage, read more about the scheduled speakers, including Nigel Banks of Octopus Energy.

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ICW Group – Building Warranties and Building Control

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Glass buildings: reflections of the future

Andy Rutter, owner of Steel and Glass Balustrades shares his thoughts on the popularity of glass buildings… Iconic glass buildings are a highlight of London:...

PROFILE: From the Design Office to Building Site…

OKI’s multi-tasking printers will save time and money across the entire project lifecycle says Andrew Hall, Oki Systems UK… Choosing printers can be a big...

The significance of steel re-use

Gary Newman, Executive Chair at the Alliance for Sustainable Building Products, summarises their involvement in creating a circular business model for the steel industry… The...

PROFILE: Change management

Why is it difficult to make it part of business as usual? Change Management is not well understood amongst business leaders plus the skills to...

The great fracking dilemma

Phil Foster, CEO of Love Energy Savings outlines both the economic and environmental case entrenched in the fracking debate along with its potential impact...

Liverpool’s pound house revolution

Homes which have lain derelict in Liverpool for decades are being brought back into use by people who have bought them for a pound....

Affordable Housing – Minister’s knuckles wrapped

When Planning Minister Brandon Lewis issued a statement announcing that LPAs could not impose affordable housing or S106 commitments on housing schemes of fewer than ten units, it was seen as government help for small-scale builders

Benefiting the community in Wrexham

Gareth Thomas, Housing Press Officer at Wrexham Borough Council explains how communities in Wrexham are seeing extra benefits from housing improvement works… Employment and Modern...

Meeting the housing shortage

For the UK to be successful at overcoming the chronic housing supply shortage, the industry needs to look beyond traditional forms of construction

Brownfield First

Natasha Levanti writes on behalf of the Environmental Industries Commission (EIC) outlining a sustainable way forward in both housing and commercial development of brownfield...

The potential pitfalls of brownfield redevelopment

With the country in the grip of a housing shortage, combined with the Government’s target of building 200,000 new homes each year, brownfield sites...

The Smart Growth approach

Jon Reeds, Convenor of the Smart Growth UK coalition argues that to solve our housing shortage, we should examine our approach to residential densities...

Delivering the Urban Agenda

Corina Creţu, Commissioner for Regional Policy at the European Commission outlines how the Urban Agenda not only benefits cities, but citizens also… As Commissioner for...

Barbour ABI will continue its contract with ONS

Barbour ABI will continue to compile construction data for the Office for National Statistics until the end of 2017… The Office for National Statistics (ONS)...

New smart cities accelerator opens in London

Internet of Things consortium has opened a new facility in London dedicated to researching and testing technologies to use in smart cities… Technology has the...

New measures help turn offices into homes

Housing and Planning Minister Brandon Lewis has announced new measures that will make it easier to turn offices into new homes… In a bid to...

Brownfield First

Natasha Levanti writes on behalf of the Environmental Industries Commission (EIC) outlining a sustainable way forward in both housing and commercial development of brownfield...

Lack of resources leads to major planning challenges

New data has revealed significant challenges are hindering the ability of local authorities to push through planning applications… Getting Britain building has been the main...

The Internet of Things for civil engineering structures

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Elsener, ETH Zurich, Institute for Building Materials argues that civil engineering should embrace the Internet of Things and its values to...

Construction sector slumps in August

New figures have revealed the construction sector saw signs of slowing down in August, with output falling… According to figures from the Office for National...

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