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  • Modular home developer Project Etopia has opened a new factory capable of producing 2,000 houses a year. The 50,000 sq ft factory in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, is a collaboration with partner company 4 ...
  • A total of 40 modular homes are set to be built in Birmingham after Homes England agreed a £7.45m loan from the government’s Home Building Fund for a new development by Urban Splash and Places for Peo ...
  • Steve Hunt, managing director of Liverpool-based mechanical and electrical engineering consultancy Steven Hunt & Associates, is calling on UK’s construction industry to join his fight to reverse what ...
  • Persimmon is launching a ‘retention’ scheme for home buyers to protect them from construction problems. The scheme will see 1.5% of a home’s value withheld by the buyer’s solicitor until any build fau ...
  • Search begins for new Chief Executive; new long term service provider agreement confirmed London, 21 March 2019:  The Considerate Constructors Scheme - the not for profit organisation that works with ...
  • Arup has launched its Rethinking Timber Buildings report aimed at accelerating the construction industry’s response to reducing global emissions and achieving net zero carbon buildings by using sustai ...
  • Cumbria County Council has given the green light for a 21st century deep coal mine in Cumbria requiring around £175m of investment. To be known as Woodhouse Colliery, the new underground coking coal m ...
  • Snøhetta has completed Under, the "world's largest underwater restaurant", which plunges from a craggy shoreline in the remote village of Båly, Norway. Designed by Snøhetta to resemble a sunken perisc ...
  • Swedish global giant Skanska has signed a contract with Fabege to build what it calls “Scandinavia’s first zero energy hotel” in Solna, Sweden. The contract is worth about $51m (SEK 470m), which will ...
  • Mjøstårnet, a mixed-use building in Brumunddal, southeastern Norway, has been declared the world’s tallest timber building by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH). The 85.4m-tall, 1 ...
  • Drone Use In Construction

    18 Mar 2019 Manor Loft Conversions
    While drones have been a luxury item for some time with prices being so high for just a domestic solution, in terms of the commercial uses, drones haven’t become a mainstream tool as of yet. But havin ...
  • Calor’s latest CPD course, on the benefits of its BioLPG fuel for new homes based off the mains gas grid, has been accredited by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). The fuel, available e ...
  • PROJECT OVERVIEW The traditional surge in electricity during sporting or historic television events, when households switch on the kettle during a television ad break, can place huge demand on the ele ...
  • Philip Hammond’s spring statement includes funding to build 30,000 affordable homes. A new £3bn scheme will fund the building of 30,000 affordable homes, the chancellor has said, as he proclaimed that ...
  • Environmental groups say chancellor’s climate change pledges do not go far enough. Gas boilers will be replaced by low-carbon heating systems in all new homes built after 2025 in an attempt to tackle ...
  • Drones and robots could build and repair future cities, but only if they can work together – by copying the tactics of nature. A new review, published today in Science Robotics and co-authored by Impe ...
  • The latest figures from the ONS relevant to construction output have been released, showing that despite the many outside pressures and uncertainties plaguing UK businesses, the construction industry ...
  • The Treasury has published a consultation paper on how to get private investment into public infrastructure. Government consultation papers usually seek to solicit views on policy proposals. However t ...
  • Liverpool is setting up a Station Commission to oversee delivery of a planned new £6bn station in the city centre connecting to HS2 and the Northern Powerhouse Rail network. Steve Rotheram, Metro Mayo ...
  • The Guinness Book of World Records has announced that the United Arab Emirates has built the world’s longest steel arch bridge, with a length of 32.7 metres. The Shammal Bridge is based in Ras Al Khai ...
  • IKEA’s research and design laboratory SPACE10 has unveiled their latest project, SolarVille, to showcase new ways to democratize access to clean, renewable energy. Based in Copenhagen, the team partne ...
  • While busying themselves making a sweet spread for our toast, bees also provide extremely accurate and localised snapshots of air pollution and its sources, a study at the University of British Columb ...
  • Parquet is a fashionable and timeless flooring choice and the three new Herringbone designs in the IDS Malmo™ luxury vinyl stickdown flooring range aim to suit both traditional and modern tastes. The ...
  • RCM’s latest offering of a RIBA approved CPD presentation ‘Delivering a through wall solution’ will help participants achieve their continued learning objectives

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