Features & Insights

Which Invasive Plants (Other Than Knotweed) Should You Watch for in Autumn and Winter?

Autumn and winter are not the time to ignore invasive plants. In fact, for developers, construction companies and landowners, the colder months can be an important [...]

October 14, 2026

UK Construction Lags Behind on Contract Management Training, New NEC Contracts Research Reveals

The UK has the lowest uptake of contract management training of any market surveyed, at 43 per cent, and UK professionals are consistently less convinced of its benefits than [...]

October 12, 2026

Peel Ports Group Calls for Smarter, More Efficient Movement of Construction Materials Ahead of October Budget

Major infrastructure projects and house building at risk from bottlenecks Peel Ports Group calls for efficient consolidation and deep-water ports for construction materials [...]

October 9, 2026

Retrofit at Scale Has an Asbestos Problem Nobody Is Budgeting For

Social housing retrofit has moved on from pilot schemes. Landlords are now working through whole estates at a time, and projects such as Onward Homes’ £9.5m upgrade of 343 [...]

October 7, 2026

Section 35: An Opportunity for Excellence

As the call for demonstrable competency continues, Nicola John, Managing Director of Fire Door Maintenance (FDM) Training and Development, discusses what this means for the [...]

October 5, 2026

How to Care for Engineered Wood Flooring in a Kitchen

Engineered wood brings a warmth and character to a kitchen that cold hard tiles simply can’t. But kitchens are brutal rooms. Steam from pots, splashes around the sink, [...]

October 1, 2026

The Drawings Were Right and the Sequence Still Went Wrong

The clash was not in the model. The steel fitted, the ducts fitted, the drawings coordinated properly and the clash detection came back clean. What nobody had looked at was [...]

October 1, 2026

The Cost of Utility Location Errors in Pipeline and Infrastructure Projects

Utility-location cost is usually discussed after a strike. That is too late—and too narrow. An omitted line, unsupported depth, wrong identity, or stale mark can trigger [...]

September 30, 2026

Deliverability, Not Aspiration, Will Define The Future Pipeline

The UK construction sector has become familiar with testing market conditions over the last decade. And despite the challenges of Brexit, Covid-19, inflationary pressures, [...]

September 30, 2026

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