Recent changes in law now allow insolvent construction companies to adjudicate in order to recover debts. Here construction industry law experts, Arbicon, provide some clarity to the situation. Construction firms have since time immemorial been [read more…]
In global construction, infrastructure and oil and gas industries, access to cheaper, imported building products is widespread. With some subcontractors at times unaware that the products they are installing have been designed to a lower [read more…]
Defying forecasts of a housing market slump in 2020, the latest data from Rightmove and Knight Frank show that UK house prices are holding remarkably firm since the lockdown. With asking prices for newly-listed houses [read more…]
Procore Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of construction management software, today (Monday 22nd June) released the findings of an independent survey of 250 UK construction middle managers and above. It revealed that Covid-19 has caused [read more…]
As lockdown measures begin to ease and construction sites reopen, how is the industry going to manage health and safety in these most challenging of times? Catherine Hill, National Commercial Manager & Area Operations Manager [read more…]
It is vital the construction industry educates itself on competition law – according to East Midlands-based law firm Nelsons. The warning comes after two of the UK’s largest rolled lead sheet suppliers – Associated Leads [read more…]
The Government’s recent consultation on extending the ban on combustible materials to more building types and lowering the height restriction in England from 18m to 11m closed on 25th May. Andrew Carpenter, Chief Executive of [read more…]
The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) is calling for renewed focus on improving gender diversity across engineering to help deliver the economic recovery. Engineering employers were already reporting a serious shortfall in recruits before the [read more…]
Mike Harrison, a structural and mechanical engineering sector specialist at R&D tax credit consultancy ForrestBrown, argues that the Government’s Future Homes Standard falls short in its environmental aims and won’t make a significant impact on [read more…]
During his conversations with main contractors across the UK over the past weeks and months, Vas Carp, Managing Director of LV Construction Ltd, has noticed that the impact of Covid-19 on the construction industry is [read more…]
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