Green construction campaigners left reeling as Government dumps zero-carbon targets.  Chancellor George Osborne’s “Fixing the Foundations” report confirmed that zero-carbon building policy is being dropped along with targets for homes to be compliant by 2016 and other buildings by 2019…. Continue Reading →

Secure Trust Bank has launch a £100m Property Conversion Fund dedicated to boost the levels of commercial to residential refurbishment. The AIM-listed challenger bank has made the announcement on the back of the Government’s commitment to create a £1bn “brownfield… Continue Reading →

The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) provides its reaction to today’s Budget, Chancellor George Osborne  first budget under a majority Conservative government. With the Chancellor’s fiscal priorities laid bare in today’s announcements, the CIOB responds to the government’s core commitments… Continue Reading →

East Midlands-based Focus Consultants appointed to project manage a £3m scheme to refurbish and extend a leisure centre. Work is due to get underway this summer on the development at North Herts Leisure Centre in Letchworth and includes a new… Continue Reading →

Knauf Insulation products helps turn the Wienerberger e4 brick house concept into a reality at the BRE Innovation Park. With the aim of creating an archetype for the future of UK housing, Wienerberger, the leading provider of wall, roof and… Continue Reading →

A contractor has been fined for serious safety failings after a teenage carpenter was injured when his fingers were cut in the moving parts of a flip-over saw. George Warren Heath, then aged 19, suffered injuries to three fingers, one… Continue Reading →

ISG secures keynote fit out in London for Switzerland’s largest insurer Zurich Insurance.  The company will create a new London base for Zurich Insurance at the 70 Mark Lane development, in the heart of London’s insurance district. The scheme involves the… Continue Reading →

ISG has landed a complex £24m office upgrade and extension project at ‘The Bower’ at Stockley Park near Heathrow. It will transform the existing three-storey property into one of the largest and most hi-spec offices in the Thames Valley region. … Continue Reading →