Over the last year, the pandemic has impacted the built environment abruptly and in profound ways. Here, Philip Watson, Director and Head of Design at HLM Architects, outlines how the changing landscape has impacted on [read more…]
The collapse of corporate giant Carillion in January 2018 highlighted a culture of financial deviance embedded at the heart of the UK construction sector, according to research by London South Bank University (LSBU). The research [read more…]
This week has seen the launch of Constructive Voices, a brand new magazine-style podcast that aims to share stories and interviews from across the construction industry. Topics include, but are not limited to, mental and [read more…]
Over a year on from the first lockdown, Paul Ruddick, CEO at Reds10, asks what lessons UK construction has learnt from the pandemic, as the industry strives to return to some sort of normality. It [read more…]
With the government setting a UK target to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050, it is no surprise that both businesses and consumers are seeking ways to contribute towards reaching this goal. In order [read more…]
The year-on-year decline in construction apprenticeships threatens the UK’s economic recovery and the ability to build back better from the coronavirus pandemic, says the Federation of Master Builders (FMB) in response to the Department for [read more…]
At a time when the public’s confidence in building safety remains severely shaken, here Mark Coates of Bentley Systems argues that a systems-based approach to infrastructure could help the construction sector make progress with some [read more…]
There is a big focus in the Construction Playbook on procuring for value and harnessing the power of SMEs within the industry. Chief Executive at Pagabo, Simon Toplass, discusses how our approach to SME relationships [read more…]
From tax policy changes to Brexit and the fallout from Covid, businesses across the country have been hit by huge and numerous challenges in the last year. But there’s more to come yet; the introduction [read more…]
While it will still take some time to digest all the implications of Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Budget, here we gauge the reaction from a number of figures across the construction sector in order to get [read more…]
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