Ian Anfield, Managing Director for leading construction audit and contract provider, Hudson Contract, comments on his predictions for the industry in 2017. “There’s no escaping the fact that Brexit will dominate the news and political [read more…]
Explore Offsite Futures was hailed as a great success by the 250 construction clients, architects, engineers and contractors, who attended the conference. The professionals gathered to share their views on how offsite construction technology could [read more…]
Housing Association residents remain pleased with their new homes, with 80 per cent saying they were very satisfied or satisfied after three-four years of occupancy, new research has shown. Nearly two-thirds (64 per cent) said [read more…]
New data published for the first time shows how the Government plans to use 3m tonnes of steel in infrastructure projects by 2020. The information is published by Business Secretary Greg Clark and Cabinet Office Minister, [read more…]
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…]
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