Bouygues UK has signed a contract with Swansea Council to build the city centre’s new high-tech, carbon zero office development that will provide space for 600 jobs. The company will break ground in the coming [read more…]
XYZ Reality, the transformational construction technology company behind Holosite, the world’s first Engineering-Grade Augmented Reality platform, has announced its global commercial launch and the reveal of its ground-breaking device: The Atom, the AR headset for [read more…]
Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time, and the need to strengthen the response is now high on everyone’s global conscience. With this in mind, the construction industry needs to [read more…]
A major UK fuel supplier has raised concerns that many construction companies are unaware of imminent changes to how they can legally power plant and machinery. From 1st April 2022, the construction and road building [read more…]
Construction workers are being urged to ‘Plan Ahead, Look Around’ by SP Energy Networks to reduce the number of reported electrical accidents on construction sites. Reports to date this year from the Energy Networks Association [read more…]
The widely anticipated Construction Industry Forecast 2021-2023 has found that, despite a challenging year, the sector looks set for growth with the value of underlying starts (projects with a construction value of less than £100m) [read more…]
Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) are ‘misleading’ indicators of zero carbon buildings and should no longer be used as official guides to help lower emissions, it has been warned. New analysis by Ingleton Wood shows actual [read more…]
In episode 16 of the Constructive Voices podcast, Henry McDonald discusses onerous construction contracts with Simon Dunkling of Arbicon. As the industry is experiencing challenge upon challenge with rising material costs, along with shortages in [read more…]
It is clear that prefabrication is rapidly altering the construction industry. Here, Shaun Hughes, Regional Sales Manager Southern UK, Victaulic, asks why so many are still lagging behind? It’s always rewarding to see the feedback [read more…]
With nearly 30 years’ experience in the Building Control Sector, Paul Armstrong left his role as an Approved Inspector (AI) at Assent Building Control to return to university, in order to pursue post graduate studies [read more…]
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