News

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

WaterSafe is advising building owners and landlords as well managers of public buildings and hotels that have been empty or underoccupied during lockdown to risk assess their drinking water system before they reopen.

The Construction Leadership Council (CLC) has launched a Business Champions initiative to support companies to be role models in their response to the climate emergency.

Sherwin-Williams won a Queen’s Award for Enterprise for its FIRETEX® Intumescent Fire Protection Technology FX6002 coating, which delivers passive fire protection for structural steel.

The Construction Industry Council (CIC) has launched ‘Carbon Zero: the professional institutions’ climate action plan’ which was spearheaded by CIC’s Climate Change Panel, chaired by CIC’s Deputy Chairman Stephen Hodder MBE.

The British Standards Institution (BSI) has released two important building safety frameworks, the BSI Flex 8670 and the PAS 8673.

The Institution of Fire Engineers, National Fire Chiefs Council and Fire Protection Association’s FIRE Conference will be held on 09 November (in person and online).

The Construction Industry Council (CIC) is delighted to welcome the Black Professionals in Construction Network (BPIC) as an Associate Member.

NHBC’s Biodiversity in New Housing Developments: Creating Wildlife-Friendly Communities is now available to download.

Legrand UK & Ireland’s guide Creating Cable Pathways has been launched to provide electrical installers with assistance and recommendations on how to best specify cable containment systems, explaining how to create a cable pathway through a building while navigating the current standards landscape.

Bentley Systems’ new education programme is aimed at inspiring the next generation of digitally skilled infrastructure workers. One fifth of all vacancies in the sector are currently hard to fill because of a lack of the right skills, while the career appeal of the industry for young people scores 4.2 out of 10 among 14- to 19-year-olds.

The Federation of Master Builders’ (FMB) survey of small- to medium-sized (SME) construction firms in the UK found that enquiries with local building firms increased at their fastest rate in a decade.

With great honour, I pen this page for the first time as President of Chartered Association of Building Engineers. To borrow the advice David Taylor has given me: “The time will fly past, so just enjoy it.” Which I fully intend to do.

Ground-breaking work has begun on Toyota’s living lab city.

The charity Band of Builders has partnered with DEWALT tools to provide help and support to tradespeople impacted by illness, injury or financial crisis across the UK.

The Association for Specialist Fire Protection (ASFP) is supporting calls for greater funding to address identified fire safety failings in tall buildings.

The Construction Industry Council (CIC) has responded to the consultation on public procurement.

Framework provider Pagabo has launched a central procurement technology platform. Intelligent dashboards simplify the full tender process and clients can track projects from initial engagement through to completion.

LGIM Real Assets has provided debt finance to HeatRHIght, a renewables funding scheme supporting the delivery of air source heat pump technology to the social housing sector, on behalf of institutional clients.

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).