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At its inaugural Housing Roundtable, Oldham Council has pledged to get 500 new social homes built in the borough over the next five years.

The HMRC has collected £1bn in extra revenue from investigations into underpaid landfill tax over the past five years, with £281m collected in 2023 alone, says law firm Pinsent Masons.

The Build Up Skills Ireland 2030 study has highlighted both a skills and labour shortage in the built environment sector.

Following confusion, the Construction Industry Council (CIC) has clarified the requirements for Designers and Principal Designers presenting evidence of competence to allow for construction site access.

The public can now find details of a building inspector listed on the register of building inspectors (RBI) for England and Wales.

Nearly two-thirds of engineering and technology graduates land a job in the engineering industry, a study has found.

Engineering design consultancy Black & White Engineering (B&W) has appointed its 50th graduate to its Global Graduate Pathway Programme.

The British Safety Industry Federation (BSIF) has issued a warning to those overseeing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and safety product procurement after tests on non-member products highlighted the widespread availability of substandard and even dangerous items.

A stray cat on the Hitchin streets now has a bijou property courtesy of Willmott Dixon.

I continue to hear positive stories from members about how much they value CABE and the respect that being a building engineer brings.

The Retrofit Academy has launched a new training course to help contractors expand their retrofit knowledge and understand career paths available.

The A Higher Bar – Achieving a Competence-led Built Environment report from the Competence Steering Group (CSG) sets out the significant steps being made across the built environment and fire sectors in improving skills, knowledge and behaviours to drive culture change and improve the safety of buildings.

A year ago, south-eastern Turkey and northern Syria were hit by two earthquakes of 7.8Mw and 7.5Mw (moment magnitude).

Worley and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Group will undertake a front-end engineering and design (FEED) project by Heidelberg Materials UK.

A huge shipping vessel that collided with a major bridge in Baltimore has left numerous people missing has prompted many questions: why did the ship hit with the bridge in the first place? But many of them are structural: how was the ship able to reach the bridge, why was it not protected against such collisions, and why the bridge collapsed so quickly once the collision had happened? We look at what experts around the world are saying.

The Building Safety Regulator (BSR) is reminding the construction industry about the provisions being made in order for higher-risk building projects to stay under their existing building control regime.

The HSE has extended the deadline to register for a recognised competence assessment scheme to continue to inspect building work for a further 13 weeks from 6 April 2024.  

Denmark’s Henrik Stiesdal and Britain’s Andrew Garrod, the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering 2024 winners, were recognised for their developments in wind power technology, advancing the design, manufacture and deployment of high-performance wind turbines.

The Building Research Establishment (BRE) has published a report – Energy Performance Certificates: Enabling the Home Energy Transition – calling for a holistic ‘net zero-ready’ EPC system to support the decarbonisation of UK homes.

People sleeping rough in Haringey in London will be offered new supported accommodation following a financial boost of over £3m from the Mayor’s Single Homelessness Accommodation Programme (SHAP).