All Construction Business: Strategy, Risk and Regulations articles
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CommentThe Budget can bring stability, but it’s efficiency that must drive public spending
With Rachel Reeves set to deliver tomorrow’s autumn Budget, Pagabo’s deputy chief executive argues that the UK’s challenge is not the level of investment but how effectively it is deployed
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CommentTechnical due diligence: Why smart investors are taking a commercial approach
With the Budget looming next week, speculation is swirling around potential adjustments to capital gains tax and stamp duty reforms, but there is a more immediate concern that many people overlook – whether the technical due diligence informing their decisions is actually fit for purpose, writes Keith Godsmark
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FeaturesIs the Building Safety Regulator’s plan to tackle the backlog likely to succeed?
With construction of tens of thousands of homes held up waiting for approval by the new regulator for high rise homes, Joey Gardiner assesses whether the plan by its new management will turn things around
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CommentGovernment must move from strategy to execution on £725bn infrastructure pipeline
Ahead of next week’s long-awaited Budget, Richard Whitehead explains why delivery must now match ambition if the UK is to realise its infrastructure promise
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SponsoredHow do we integrate sustainability into the built environment and make it pay?
Industry leaders gathered during Climate Week NYC to debate how construction can deliver environmental resilience while maintaining commercial viability, with risk emerging as the new language of sustainability
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CommentLet’s extend 28-day adjudication to buyers of new homes
Tony Bingham makes a plea to housing secretary Steve Reed to ditch a Construction Act exclusion that ill serves new home buyers
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CommentAssent collapse: Are we ready to cope in the face of a chain reaction?
The sudden failure of building control specialist Assent raises some awkward questions about construction industry resilience. Do we understand our process and how vulnerable it is to disruption, asks Simon Rawlinson of Arcadis
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CommentAI could force us to re-imagine how public consultation in planning works
Residents are increasingly using AI tools to craft letters of objection to schemes en masse. We need to think about how technology could help us create a better planning system, writes Paul Smith
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CommentWhat the construction sector needs from this month’s Budget
The chancellor has rolled the pitch ahead of her much-anticipated Budget with an unprecedented ‘emergency’ press event in Downing Street. Richard Steer considers her options for the main event on 26 November
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News£800,000 cost of Stepnell demerger fails to blunt contractor’s profit
Regional builder says bottom line stayed flat despite one-off hit for move
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CommentWhat if part of the answer to our building problem is actually to build less?
‘No-build’ and ‘low-build’ solutions are a relatively cheap and simple way to reduce the size of the housing waiting list and shrink the size of the infrastructure pipeline, writes Beth West
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NewsGovernment launches consultation on expanding immigration checks to self-employed workers
Proposed legislation would apply to businesses hiring zero-hours or ‘gig economy’ workers in construction
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NewsPLP adds two storeys to residential tower on £2.5bn Bankside Yards masterplan in second staircase redesign
Width of tower would also be increased by 3m to accommodate larger stair core
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NewsCPA downgrades output growth forecast as Budget uncertainty hits confidence
Firms report slowing activity across the construction supply chain
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NewsSkanska unveils management shake-up following departure of executive vice president
Dan Williams replaces Andrew English as CFO Meliha Duymaz takes on HS2 work
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NewsEarly-stage site work will not require environmental permit
Environment minister Emma Hardy announces proposed changes ‘to unleash an era of building’
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CommentAdjudicators should aim for an ‘industry result’
Adjudication’s rough-and-readiness is partly about getting a result that makes sense in industry terms – that just works
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CommentWhat will the Employment Rights Bill mean for construction?
Construction employers must prepare for the significant impact of this legislation
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NewsBuilding Safety Regulator spells out timetable to clear gateway 2 backlog first announced at Building the Future conference
Backlog of legacy application to be cleared by January, group promises
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CommentFailure to tackle shoddy retrofit work could destroy confidence in the industry
The shock findings of this week’s NAO report into botched external wall insulation installations has damaged public confidence in the benefits of retrofit. Decisive action is needed to restore faith and prevent future waste, says Thomas Lane