The Government must use the forthcoming Budget to bring forward greater investment in the construction sector to help boost jobs and activity, says the Federation of Master Builders (FMB). This is in response to ONS [read more…]
The UK’s largest roofing trade association, NFRC, is backing a new campaign from Samaritans, Real People Real Stories, which aims to use real life stories to reach men struggling to cope reaching crisis point and [read more…]
North-West transformation Group, Torus, is to redevelop historic dockside site and bring affordable housing options to iconic Liverpool City Centre location. Redeveloping the vacant, former industrial, 0.8ha site on Lightbody Street, off Great Howard Street, [read more…]
The latest RealBusinessesRescue.co.uk Business Distress Index data analysis for small and young businesses has revealed the number of start-up UK construction firms in significant financial distress* has leaped 20% (to more than 10,000) in Q2 [read more…]
British flat-roof skylight specialist Sunsquare, has developed a revolutionary new smart skylight that is set to change the face of the skylight industry. In a pioneering move for the industry, Sunsquare has developed Smartsquare, a [read more…]
FTSE construction & materials companies issued nine profit warnings in Q2 2020, bringing the total number of warnings issued in H1 2020 to 23, according to EY’s latest Profit Warnings Report. This represents profit warnings [read more…]
The Builders Merchants Federation (BMF) will work in partnership with TrustMark to ensure that homeowners can be confident of the quality of both the materials and the workmanship of projects completed under the new Green [read more…]
Wienerberger and Taylor Maxwell are celebrating a ten year partnership with the unique brick tile cladding system, Corium, which recently achieved a full BBA accreditation. Produced by Wienerberger and sold exclusively through Taylor Maxwell, the [read more…]
Over 2m over-55s live in poor-quality housing that puts their health and wellbeing at risk, according to new research by the Centre for Ageing Better and Ipsos MORI. The report, The impact of Covid-19 on [read more…]
A £4.4m expansion project is nearing completion at Addington Special Education Needs (SEN) School in Reading, which will boost the school’s capacity to more than 250 children. The scheme, designed by HLM Architects, features a [read more…]
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