Market Focus

A new online tool that allows the public to find out the gender pay gap for their occupation has been launched by the Minister for Women and Equalities, Justine Greening today (Friday 9 December). The online tool, created [read more…]

Analysis by KPMG has revealed a £38.9bn jump in the value of the UK Government infrastructure and construction pipeline since March 2016. It also revealed that 60 per cent of the £502.3bn in pipeline value [read more…]

Building design professionals are already feeling the impact of the Brexit vote, with almost two thirds (60 per cent) of architects and building specifiers experiencing delays to projects as a result, according to a new [read more…]

Newly published reports from Transport for the North and the Department for Transport have outlined how road journeys across the North of England could be transformed to boost economic growth. Reports from three strategic road [read more…]

The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) will fund a new initiative designed to stamp out modern day slavery in the construction industry. The project, developed by Willmott Dixon, was successful in its bid for £18,500 [read more…]

Although experts are still sifting through its implications, if anything concrete can be drawn from Chancellor Philip Hammond’s Autumn Statement at this early stage, it’s that it has perfectly polarised opinion across the construction sector, with [read more…]

In advance of this month’s Autumn Statement, the Electrical Contractors’ Association (ECA) and the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) have called on Chancellor Philip Hammond MP to prioritise investment in new digital technology and clean [read more…]

The majority of UK construction companies are in surprisingly good shape to cope with any Brexit fallout, a new report from market analysts Plimsoll Publishing argues. Having carried out a financial health check on the [read more…]