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Insulation specialist Actis welcomes Theresa May’s £2 billion social housing boost

Theresa May’s announcement this week that housing associations would be given an extra £2 billion to fund projects until 2029 have been welcomed by insulation specialist [...]

September 28, 2018

Fire door safety ignored despite Grenfell tragedy online pole reveals

Despite the shocking tragedy of the Grenfell fire in London last summer, an online poll has revealed that 50% of tradespeople don’t feel confident in advising customers on [...]

September 18, 2018

Skills shortage in the building industry will hamper housing delivery

Small house builders predict that skills shortages in the building industry will hamper housing delivery and will eventually overtake access to finance as a bigger barrier to [...]

September 12, 2018

Cushman & Wakefield has ambitious plans for Graduate Planner, Kathryn

Cushman & Wakefield has appointed Kathryn Cockburn as a Graduate Planner in its expanding Development and Planning team in Scotland. Kathryn, from Glasgow, has a First [...]

September 10, 2018

Balfour Beatty – Driving forward customer focused delivery in Highways

Four million people use Highways England’s Strategic Road Network (SRN) each day. This is forecast to grow by a further 40% by 2040 with the cost of congestion expected to [...]

August 24, 2018

Homes England’s Property Framework to accelerate housing development

Homes England has confirmed the successful companies appointed to its new Property Framework – increasing its expertise and helping to accelerate housing development. [...]

August 3, 2018

Kier Group appoints Claudio Veritiero as new Chief Operating Officer

Kier Group, a leading infrastructure services, buildings and developments & housing group, today announces that Claudio Veritiero, currently its Strategy and Corporate [...]

August 1, 2018

No sign of Brexit nerves in construction this year according to the FMB

Construction SMEs enjoyed rising workloads in the second quarter of 2018, despite continuing concerns over skills shortages and increasing costs, according to the Federation [...]

July 25, 2018

Nearly 80% of builders and consumers support licensing construction

Almost 80% of builders and home owners are calling on the Government to introduce a licensing scheme for the UK construction industry to stamp out rogue traders once and for [...]

July 4, 2018

Kier and Homes England announce 10-year housebuilding joint venture

An innovative joint venture (JV) partnership has been formed between Kier, Homes England and Cross Key Homes that will deliver up to 5,400 new homes over the next ten years [...]

June 12, 2018

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