Story Homes celebrates its seventh year of building homes across the North East with further growth and investment planned for 2021

Despite challenges the construction industry has faced during the last 12 months and ongoing economic uncertainty, privately-owned housebuilder Story Homes remains confident and continues to focus on expansion plans. By
Posted on February 24, 2021

Easy Living

Hawkes Place is a property like no other. Situated in Sevenoaks, Kent, one homeowner has created a truly unique building where every room is connected through home automation devices. Designed
Posted on February 24, 2021

Works underway on £3.7m expansion of Coventry secondary school

Midlands contractor G F Tomlinson is progressing with multi-million expansion works at Cardinal Newman Catholic School in Coventry, for Coventry City Council. The project involves the construction of a new
Posted on February 24, 2021

Marley launches RIBA accredited CPD on sustainability & solar PV to support architects

With predictions of a fivefold increase in new homes built with solar technologies, roof systems manufacturer, Marley has launched a brand-new RIBA accredited CPD course on the renewable energy solution
Posted on February 19, 2021

Specifying building materials for social housing is a liability…

New research has revealed that eight in ten social housing professionals believe that there are still a worrying number of liability concerns surrounding the construction of social housing developments, and
Posted on February 17, 2021

State of the art technology used to plan sustainable Meridian Water

New technology will be used to design Enfield Council’s £6bn Meridian Water development to ensure it delivers the maximum benefits to as many people as possible. Jacobs is partnering with
Posted on February 12, 2021

How retrofitting creates a ‘powerhouse’ of efficiency

By Louisa Buckley, Residential Marketing Manager at Schneider Electric We all want to make the right decisions. To that end, consumers, enterprises and governments have joined forces to tackle climate
Posted on February 11, 2021

UnderFloor Climate Management service launches to provide HVAC design expertise

An experienced team of HVAC technical specialists is launching a new service to provide design expertise and systems for commercial developments. UnderFloor Climate Management (UFCM), which is a part of
Posted on February 11, 2021

Could lack of skills be the Achilles’ Heel of cladding work?

Vivalda Group chairman thinks the £3.5bn fund and loans for cladding remediation is a step in the right direction – but recommends urgent investment into training for contractors tasked with
Posted on February 10, 2021

New Fire Engineering course launched

Birmingham City University is to launch a new apprenticeship in Fire Engineering later this year, to help address national concerns around a skills shortage in Fire Safety and Building Safety.
Posted on February 10, 2021