Building materials

The Construction Leadership Council’s Product Availability working group has painted a picture of the overall product availability in the construction industry.

A transfer beam supporting a four-storey building was notched to accommodate suspended ceiling fixings

Stephen Hall, CMF Technical Director, discusses Approved Document B (Fire Safety) Table B3 for loadbearing panelised building systems

After a golden age of market conditions offering affordable coverage, the professional indemnity insurance sector has hit a crisis. The CLC is working to change things

You could argue that product testing has been following ever-decreasing circles, but new regulation and industry efforts focused on safety are set to reform the sector and support broader changes in construction, says James Cash

Domus Ventilation has released a CPD course that covers important changes to residential ventilation in the new-build sector, namely changes to Part F – ventilation of the Building Regulations, and Part B – fire safety (requirements on the use of combustible material in cavities, which differ across the nations).

The Build Homes, Build Jobs, Build Innovation report called on the government to set a target for 75,000 homes a year to be of modular construction by 2030 – 25% of its overall target of 300,000 homes annually.

Danley case study shows how concrete can be used without the traditional mesh reinforcement by combining ground-supported flatwork with tapered plate dowels

As issues on sustainable construction gains more eminence, research on utilization of natural fibres in concrete is actively executed

Carl Parsons, at SITECH UK & Ireland, explores the benefits of drone surveys and how to effectively introduce a drone onto a construction site

Jason Tema, Director of Clearview Developments, believes the key to regional housing shortages lies with regeneration of abandoned sites

The Construction Leadership Council (CLC) has recently released their new People Survey which aims to assess the implications of COVID-19 on the built environment and those working within it.

An EY white paper by Eric Ottinger ACABE, Harshit Minglani, Mark Gibson and Amanda Alexander examines changing building practices

During UK lockdown, Google searches for DIY topics increased by 35%.

Prefabricated homes have been long-heralded as the future of house building; but if the arguments for homes to be manufactured like cars are so compelling, why is factory-built housing not more common? 

Design and engineering students’ first experience of a design brief encourages team working, creativity and problem solving

The recovery in construction activity that was reported in Construction PMI data can be accelerated if the Government takes decisive action in its March Budget, says the Federation of Master Builders (FMB).