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 →

Construction company fined after a worker fell through a roof onto a concrete floor below.  Reading Magistrates’ Court heard how Barski Developments Limited had been contracted to refurbish a number of industrial units at Slough Business Park in the autumn… Continue Reading →

Ecobuild has unveiled exciting new plans to take it into the next phase of business growth and reinforce the brand’s position at the centre of the UK building industry for more than 11 years. Part of UBM Built Environment, Ecobuild… Continue Reading →