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Carbon emissions across the whole lifecycle of buildings must be immediately reduced if we are to meet Europe’s climate targets for 2030. A new policy roadmap from BPIE argues that the EPBD (Energy Performance of Buildings Directive) recast should ensure a comprehensive vision of a carbon neutral building and construction... View Article

We are pleased to announce the official launch of the Housing Safety & Wellbeing Taskforce, which due to Covid-19 precautions, took place online on the 13th January 2022. We were delighted to be joined by Sir Peter Bottomley MP, who... View Article

Business investment in the construction industry rose by more than a third annually in the third quarter of 2021 as Covid disruption and supply chain bottlenecks continued to ease, according to the latest ONS data. Investment in the sector grew... View Article

Skanska has signed a contract with the Stockholm Regional Council to do frame completion and tunnel installations in the extension of the blue metro line from Akalla to Barkarby in Stockholm, Sweden. The contract is worth about SEK 900M, which... View Article

Construction output fell 1.8% in volume terms in October 2021, this is the largest monthly decline since April 2020 when output fell by 41.7%. Andy Sommerville, Director at Search Acumen, says: “In Q3 2021 the construction industry saw signs of... View Article

Simon Rowland, Partner and Head of Construction and Engineering and Michelle Essen, Managing Associate, at law firm Womble Bond Dickinson, take a look at the events of 2021 and the potential challenges and opportunities that the sector could be presented with... View Article

Today’s White Paper argues that a significantly expanded Integrated Retirement Community (IRC) sector must be at the heart of the new social care system and suggests that the Government is considering ARCO’s proposed Housing-with-Care Task Force. The White Paper Commits... View Article

The failure of the Green Homes Grant Scheme was a disappointment and the Government must learn from these findings to ensure similar, future schemes work better for industry and consumers, says the Federation of Master Builders (FMB) in response to... View Article

Industry experts have called for greater standardisation, collaboration and incentivisation to make Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) work at scale. Specialists from law and finance have said that whilst MMC could be the sector’s opportunity to cultivate a sustainable future,... View Article

According to new research, the majority (58%) of built environment professionals believe the sector is already doing enough to tackle its carbon impact, despite the built environment contributing 36% of total global energy-related CO2 emissions, and the most recent available... View Article

Research released today by Southern Construction Framework (SCF) reveals yet further hikes in materials costs, with the added energy and transportation crisis creating a perfect storm of limited raw materials supply, products and labour.With the cost of steelwork up by... View Article