Market Insight

Bob Dalrymple, Head of Marketing at leading glass wool insulation manufacturer, Superglass, discusses the increasing importance house-buyers put on the running costs of properties and how housebuilders can use it to their advantage. ‘Location, location, [read more…]

A £1bn VAT bombshell will hit building supplies to the UK if builders merchants are forced to pay 20% VAT upfront on European timber and other materials, warns the Builders Merchants Federation.   Parliament voted this [read more…]

The 2020s promise to be a positive time for the UK construction sector with a government pipeline worth some £600bn of infrastructure investment and plans to boost productivity by a further £15bn annually by driving [read more…]

A report looking at the role that technology will play in the construction industry in the future, has revealed that 3D printed walls, drones and a roof made from recycled plastic bottles from the ocean [read more…]

Leisure contractor Medlock FRB is celebrating a record year which saw revenues soar 47 per cent. Medlock’s turnover in the year to December 2017 was £39.35m, up from £26.83m in the previous 12 months. The [read more…]

The new Chair of the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) should make it his priority to reform the CITB Board so it is more representative of the whole construction sector, according to the Federation of [read more…]

There is no doubt that the UK is in the midst of a brutal housing crisis. The slow supply of housing to meet demand will be exacerbated by the reduction in labour that will surely [read more…]

Alan Wilson, Head of Membership and Communications at SELECT, the campaigning trade body for Scotland’s electrical sector, recently made a presentation to the Scottish Parliament’s Cross Party Group for Construction. Mr Wilson, in his capacity [read more…]