Basildon Council’s Planning Committee last night (Tuesday 11 September) approved an application for the construction of a new college campus on the site of the current Basildon Market. The existing buildings on the land will be demolished to make way… Continue Reading →
London’s homebuilders have been outpaced by the rest of Great Britain as investment in housebuilding dropped to its lowest value in six years. Residential contracts awarded in London in 2017 were 34% lower than the value awarded in 2016, which… Continue Reading →
One of the North East’s leading renewable energy specialists, Narec Distributed Energy (Narec DE), will be providing fully funded accredited training to electricians, plumbers and heating engineers on Solar PV, solar thermal and heat pumps to enable installers to meet… Continue Reading →
Kay Killmann, President of the German Green Building Association (GGBA), has a mission: ensuring that environmental product declarations are available for every product installed in a building. During a presentation at the EUREF campus in Berlin, he emphasised that this… Continue Reading →
In the event the UK leaves the European Union without some form of deal, 44% of the UK population believe that house prices will remain “about the same”. That’s according to a recent poll conducted by property news and advice… Continue Reading →
One of the most important historic buildings in Greater Manchester has been restored as part of the Townscape Heritage Initiative (THI); a £2.8m Rochdale Borough Council and Heritage Lottery Fund scheme. The grade II* listed Long Street Methodist School, which… Continue Reading →
The CIOB Academy is launching a brand new course focussed on managing and delivering quality in construction. This follows months of work by a Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) Commission of Past Presidents into the issue of build quality, and… Continue Reading →
They say that one man’s junk can be another man’s gold and, although one may think that the saying only applies to car boot sales, the maxim also illustrates the state of the industrial power resistor market. Here, Martin Nicholls,… Continue Reading →
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