The 2022 Building Safety Act introduced the concept of the ‘golden thread’. Owners and managers of buildings are required to hold a comprehensive set of information showing how a building was designed and built. The aim is simple – to reduce the severity of the consequences of fire spread or…
Watch the webinar on demand for free By 2030, the UK aims to establish itself as a global science and technology superpower, a goal well within its reach. Home to two of the world’s top-five universities for life sciences and with a substantial share of European life-science start-ups, the UK…
Will imminent reforms boost or hinder take-up among construction firms of HMRC’s research and development tax credits scheme? David Prosser investigates Will construction companies miss out on valuable incentives designed to encourage innovation under a shake-up of the research and development (R&D) tax credits scheme? His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs…
The shortlist for the CN Specialists Awards 2023 has been revealed today (31 May). A total of 134 entrants made it through the first round of judging, with 86 companies represented across 21 categories. The companies with the most shortlisted nominations – with five each - are concrete contractor MPB…
Early collaboration among construction-sector partners would give clients, contractors and suppliers a better chance of decarbonising their operations, a recent roundtable discussion heard. But while innovative technology can play an important part in meeting net-zero targets, getting better at the basics is crucial, too. Mike Walter reports On the panel…
From private equity-backed contractors to council developers and a firm that saw its public listing set back a few steps in 2022, Keith Cooper reveals CN’s companies to watch in 2023 Altrad Altrad’s mission to expand stepped up a gear in 2022 – and it looks set to continue into…
The outlook for the year ahead changed dramatically towards the end of 2022 – from optimism and expected growth to worries about material costs and inflation. The last couple of months of the year saw a raft of gloomy forecasts about the state of the construction industry in 2023, with…
A masterplan for a new prison in Glasgow, designed by Kier, has been submitted for planning. Earlier this year, the Scottish Prison Service awarded Kier the preconstruction services contract to deliver HMP Glasgow, which is set to replace the 19th century HMP Barlinnie. The submission of the masterplan for the…
This year marked a number of small step changes in tackling the inequality faced by women on construction sites – while the gulf between the pay packages of the top brass and site workers widened. Here we round up the issues that mattered most to readers in 2022, tackled in…
The year got off to a bumpy start with a major contractor going under in January. But there was better news for those eyeing up nuclear builds. Here are the stories that Construction News readers flocked to read in 2022. 10. Boost for Rolls-Royce’s Snowdonia nuclear plans In mid-October, Rolls-Royce’s…
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