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…]
Following the release of the latest CIPS/IHS Markit Construction PMI figures this morning (Thursday 4 June), we gauge the reaction from various leading industry figures, as the sector strives to overcome the challenges posed by [read more…]
Honeywell has launched an integrated set of solutions to help building owners improve the health of their building environments, operate more cleanly and safely, comply with social distancing policies, and help reassure occupants that it [read more…]
Plans for a post-Covid-19 revival of the UK construction sector have been published today (Monday 1st June) by the Construction Leadership Council’s Covid-19 Task Force. The Task Force, which represents the entire construction supply chain [read more…]
Stuart Harrow, Transportation Director of Dougall Baillie Associates, outlines the impact Covid-19 will have on transport planning and road infrastructure in the future. One of the first things which comes to the forefront of the [read more…]
Joe Hudson, CEO of Ibstock Plc, the UK’s largest provider of clay and concrete building materials, explains why the government’s latest lockdown announcement signals hope for the construction sector. In the Government’s most recent review [read more…]
With the UK construction sector making tentative steps back to normality, Peter Harte, VP EMEA at Kronos Incorporated, discusses how accurate labour forecasting will be critical to adopting a ‘business as usual’ approach. As the [read more…]
With the government now a week into its 50-page roadmap out of lockdown, a new report suggests that UK construction firms were the least prepared for the rise of remote and flexible working pre-lockdown. The [read more…]
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