The 2026 CIBSE Building Performance Awards (BPAs) will take place on 5 March 2026 at the Park Plaza, celebrating excellence in building performance around the globe. The BPAs are unique in the ...

Construction firms can expect significant new work from the government’s £2.3 billion prison expansion initiative, says Glenigan. The programme, which aims to create 14,000 new prison places by 2031, ...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Q2 2025 UK Construction Monitor offers a mixed but cautiously optimistic snapshot of the nation’s construction sector. While overall workloads ...

One key bright spot for the industry over the summer has been new commercial office construction. Driven by an upturn in work on medium and larger-sized commercial projects in the £20-100 million ...

Birch Construction Surrey is no stranger to the ever-evolving aspects of developing high-quality homes. The company works with homebuilders, as well as on renovation and landscaping projects across ...

Balfour Beatty has been awarded a £162 million contract by IMPACT Scotland to deliver the Dunard Centre, Edinburgh’s first purpose-built concert hall in over a century. The contract will see the ...

Proctor Air® is an air and vapour permeable, highly water resistant roofing underlay. Its characteristics allow even very complex pitched roofs to breathe, without the need for air gaps or secondary ...

Thousands of buildings with unsafe cladding are set to be fixed faster thanks to new legislation and over £1 billion of investment in social housing remediation. The government has published a joint ...

The Society of Façade Engineering (SFE) hosted the 2025 Façade Design and Engineering Awards at Old Billingsgate, London, recognising outstanding achievement and innovation in the field of façade ...

The Federation of Master Builders (FMB) is calling on building companies across the UK to prioritise mental wellbeing today on National Stress Awareness Day. With the construction industry facing ...

UK Build to Rent (BTR) investment volumes in Q3 2025 totalled £581.2m, according to preliminary data from global real estate advisor, CBRE. A further £3.8bn of investment is sitting under offer. This ...

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