The charity Band of Builders has partnered with DEWALT tools to provide help and support to tradespeople impacted by illness, injury or financial crisis across the UK.
The Association for Specialist Fire Protection (ASFP) is supporting calls for greater funding to address identified fire safety failings in tall buildings.
Framework provider Pagabo has launched a central procurement technology platform. Intelligent dashboards simplify the full tender process and clients can track projects from initial engagement through to completion.
LGIM Real Assets has provided debt finance to HeatRHIght, a renewables funding scheme supporting the delivery of air source heat pump technology to the social housing sector, on behalf of institutional clients.
Domus Ventilation has released a CPD course that covers important changes to residential ventilation in the new-build sector, namely changes to Part F – ventilation of the Building Regulations, and Part B – fire safety (requirements on the use of combustible material in cavities, which differ across the nations).
The Scottish government has written to local authority chief executives advising of changes being introduced to published guidance within the building standards technical handbooks, which should be applied from 1 April 2021.
The Build Homes, Build Jobs, Build Innovation report called on the government to set a target for 75,000 homes a year to be of modular construction by 2030 – 25% of its overall target of 300,000 homes annually.
A new Climate Hazard interactive map published by the National Trust has compounded concerns for construction companies, contractors, conservationists and all those involved in historical preservation over potential damage to listed buildings.
Supply chain risk manager CHAS is encouraging the construction industry to embrace the new Common Assessment Standard following the announcement of a data-sharing agreement between the scheme’s providers.
The Property Care Association (PCA) is calling for an integrated approach of natural flood defences and individual building resilience to tackle increased flood risk caused by climate change.
Building insulation manufacturer, Kingspan, confirmed as part of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry that it has retracted three test reports of external wall systems, including its K15 phenolic foam insulation product.
It feels very strange to sit down to write my final welcome page. It has been a whole year since my socially distanced inauguration, and that time has flown by.
The launch of the New Homes Quality Board (NHQB) has been welcomed as a major step forward in helping to restore consumer confidence and trust in the housebuilding industry.
A Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) report suggests that only one in ten construction employers understand the government’s new migration system, introduced at the beginning of 2021.
The Connected Enterprise report by Sigma Dynamics revealed that outdated attitudes towards technology among facilities management business leaders are at risk of jeopardising future business survival.
