The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has published its latest set of horizon scans, which highlight the global economic systems and forces that will shape the built environment over the next decade.
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.
Alastair Hamilton, partner at Pick Everard, discusses the current lay of the land and shares his insight into the challenges on the horizon for the construction industry.
Willmott Dixon has been appointed by Telford and Wrekin Council to provide a £9.7m modular upgrade to Holy Trinity Academy, to improve and amend the school’s amenities.
Legal & General Retirement Institutional will invest a further £2.5bn of Defined Benefit (DB) schemes’ retirement funds into delivering more than 7000 build to rent homes over the next five years.
The Black Country Plan Review consultation in 2021 confirmed that there is a significant shortfall in housing land for the period up to 2039 arising from the Black Country, with nearly 29,000 dwellings needing to be delivered elsewhere.
Winvic Construction, along with St Modwen Logistics, has celebrated the first phase of industrial warehouse project in Derby with a ground-breaking ceremony.
Turnstone Estates has appointed HG Construction on its £65m leisure development in Colchester, as part of Colchester Borough Council’s Northern Gateway.
Construction company Henry Brothers, named Northern Ireland’s Responsible Business of the Year, has announced its Journey to Net Zero strategy to achieve zero carbon emissions by 2050.
The Association for Consultancy and Engineering (ACE) urges the government to deliver on off-site manufacturing pledge, including for repeatable social infrastructure to be delivered using a platform/off-site approach.
Commercial law firm Burness Paull has completed a letting at BAM TCP Atlantic Square development in Glasgow’s International Financial Services District.
HS2’s Euston station construction partner, Mace Dragados JV, is offering procurement contract packages worth over £500m to help deliver the new HS2 Euston station.
December construction output increased by 2.0%, marking the second month of consecutive growth since March 2021, with the new housing sector seeing the strongest growth since records began in 2014.
National Highways has announced the final stages of the M27 motorway upgrade, which includes the installation of a new lane, resulting in four lanes becoming available for traffic in each direction.
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.
