While the past 12 months certainly offered up its fair share of challenges, Ellis Osborn, Ecommerce Manager at IronmongeryDirect, believes that 2024 will provide plenty of reasons to be optimistic for the year ahead. “As [read more…]
Simon Herod, International Team Lead, EstimateOne, highlights the estimator as a key player in the construction journey and what this means for supply chains, sustainability and labour shortages. Valuing estimating teams: Streamlining processes for success in [read more…]
As a member of the Association of Brickwork Contractors, market-leading construction consumables supplier, Grayson, has become a firm supporter of the trade body’s assessment centre, which offers employer-led, onsite training and NVQ accreditation. The associate [read more…]
Planning applications for infrastructure have plummeted 45% so far in Q2 and contract awards have fallen 32% according to the latest analysis from Barbour ABI. Government-backed Infrastructure projects have previously provided some relief to the [read more…]
Construction has made considerable progress in its journey towards a digital future, yet some pockets of resistance remain. For some contractors, part of the problem lies in finding the relevant tools and systems. Sometimes it [read more…]
The UK’s construction industry is critical to the country’s economic growth and here Gareth Randle, Senior Sector Specialist at R&D tax specialist, ForrestBrown, underlines the importance of funding innovation/R&D for the sector’s long-term prospects, even [read more…]
Contract awards fell by a third to just £4.7bn in April, with major sectors suffering, according to the latest figures from construction analysts Barbour ABI. Infrastructure was hit the hardest, falling 71% to just £400m [read more…]
Leading social value experts at Loop are today (Thursday 27th April) launching a survey for the construction market, which aims to identify where the wider industry sits on social value, and where things can be [read more…]
Rising costs add £23bn to the cost of construction output when compared to pre-pandemic price levels; inflation pressures are expected to continue through the first half of 2023. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has [read more…]
Analysis of government data highlights growth in the construction industry in response to high demand, but the sector will need to be flexible in the face of 2023 challenges. New analysis reveals the resilience of [read more…]
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