54% of contractors surveyed in the RLB's annual Procurement Trends survey reported an increase in collaborative working in procurement, with 35% of contractors stating that clients were more willing to share risk.
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.
Durkan, one of the leading independent housebuilding and construction companies in the South, has been appointed by Network Homes to build 158 new homes in London.Â
Northumbria University has been awarded funding to design and develop a new purpose-built home office within a house prototype, which will enable people to work from home and ‘age in place’.
The UK’s largest Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) has passed its factory acceptance test and started its journey to the Silvertown Tunnel project in London.
HS2 has started work on the first of 56 giant concrete piers that will support the UK’s longest rail bridge as it prepares to start tunnelling work in London.
The Crescent Gardens regeneration project in East Croydon has reached a significant milestone, with a topping out ceremony held to mark construction reaching the highest point of the eight-storey building.
HS2 has confirmed its decision to transport more building materials via freight trains to construction sites near Aylesbury, which will take the equivalent of an extra 28,500 lorries off Buckinghamshire’s roads and save 9,680 tonnes of carbon emissions.
Kier has completed construction of the new Wellingborough prison, HMP Five Wells, with the help of 19 serving prisoners, as part of the Ministry of Justice’s Prison Estate Transformation Programme.
UK construction PMI data from February indicated that business momentum has increased, with building companies showing the strongest rise in output since mid-2021.
Reports indicate that the Ukraine conflict will cause critical building material shortages and price rises that will have a detrimental knock-on effect on the global supply chain.
Scrapped cruise ships have the potential to be transformed into naturally occurring affordable housing that targets various income ranges says global architecture practice, CallisonRTKL’s Designer, Ibrahim Desooky.
BAM's General Intensive Care Unit delivered for the University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (UHS) named ‘Best Non-residential Extension or Alteration of the Year’.
Public sector professionals are invited to join LHC for their ‘Engage the Future: Collaboration & Community’ webinar on 31 March, 11:30am – 1:30pm as they explain why equality, diversity and inclusion should be more than a tick box exercise if they want to deliver true social value.
Proudly working and building on over £1 billion pounds worth of homes throughout Merseyside over the last 35 years, Sutcliffe is no stranger to providing the very best civil and structural engineering services on social housing projects.
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.
