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Project-starts and main contract awards experienced declines against the previous quarter and last year. However, growth in detailed planning approvals provided a boost to the development pipeline. Industrial overview During the three months to May, industrial project-starts fell 5 per cent against the preceding three months to stand 39 per…

Sarah Clark is a partner at law firm BDB Pitmans  Having attended the All Energy and Dcarbonise conference in Glasgow in May, many conversations reflected the growing trend across UK professional services consultancies to secure for themselves a meaningful role in the renewable-energy sector.  Who can blame them? There is…

Jose Hernandez is director of sustainability and energy at consultancy Pick Everard The climate agenda remains a focus for the construction industry, marking one of the biggest challenges the sector has ever faced. Twenty-five per cent of the UK’s emissions are directly attributable to the built environment and we are…

Tom McNeill is a partner and health and safety regulatory specialist at BCL Solicitors Construction incidents resulting in fatalities, serious injuries or dangerous occurrences often trigger criminal regulatory investigations. These investigations have the potential to lead to prosecutions of organisations, directors, managers or other individuals. While organisations value their safety…

Felicity Zakers is an associate at law firm Browne Jacobson The government has recently announced further measures to protect national security by way of the Procurement Bill, which has reached the remaining report stages, with amendments being debated in Parliament this week. In addition to this bill, the increase in the…

Helen Normoyle is co-founder of My Menopause Centre To embrace and deliver workforce diversity, the construction industry must urgently offer better menopause support. The construction industry has long had a gender diversity problem. According to the Office for National Statistics, just 13 per cent of the construction industry are women…

Our focus at British Offsite is enabling you to deliver occupiable properties faster, by addressing the many complexities involved in modern housebuilding. Ours is a hybrid approach that lets you combine traditional building methods with modern methods of construction. Take the first few steps towards offsite construction or embrace a…

Jo Sutherland is managing director of Magenta Associates Last month, 7,000 government representatives, investors, funders, developers, housebuilders and construction leaders descended on Leeds City Centre for the UK’s Real Estate Investment and Infrastructure Forum, fondly known as UKREiiF. Following last year’s debut, 2023’s version focused on how real estate can…

Kirsteen Milne is a legal director at Brodies LLP Modular construction has been heralded for several years now to save time and reduce waste and cost, and forms part of the “modern methods of construction” being encouraged by the government. However, it is not without its challenges, as demonstrated by…

Karen Morean is a partner in the construction, engineering & procurement team at law firm Devonshires With an increasingly difficult economic environment, insolvencies throughout the construction industry are on the rise. Compulsory voluntary arrangements (CVAs) are often used as an interim procedure that a company adopts to avoid immediate terminal…