News

Dame Judith Hackitt’s recommendations to overhaul building regulations have received a mix of brickbats and plaudits from across the construction industry and beyond....

Dame Judith Hackitt has made more than 50 recommendations to reform UK building regulations in the wake of lessons learned from last year’s Grenfell Tower fire....

A demolition contractor has been fined £4,000 after a worker was struck by a concrete spandrel panel....

House-builder Countryside Properties is planning to open a factory in Warrington to make closed panel timber frames for its houses....

North Midland Construction is training felons and recruiting them on their release from prison....

The Concrete Centre has warned that the drive to offsite manufacturing for construction risks creating a built environment with little resilience to fire, flood damage or the weather....

Building maintenance contractor Lakehouse has acquired St Albans-based heating and renewables specialist Just Energy Solutions....

Align JV has appointed Daniel Altier as its new project director to lead the delivery of the C1 work package of the High Speed 2 rail project....

The government has said that it will pay for any cladding replacement work that councils and housing associations need to undertake in light of last year’s Grenfell Tower fire....

The government is recommending building owners replace fire doors of the type that underperformed in Grenfell Tower....