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We must stop building houses that are simply not covered or prepared for future flood events, warns Know Your Flood Risk’s Mary Dhonau OBE. With the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee’s (Efra) this week criticising Government for “missing opportunities to act on” Efra’s Future Flood Prevention report that was published in November, Mary Dhonau OBE, […]
The rebound in investment demand continues post-EU referendum, according to the Q4 RICS UK Commercial Market Survey 2016. Despite some concern surrounding potential relocation of companies based in the UK, demand from overseas buyers was up notably across all areas of the market in Q4 2016. Demand increased for a second straight quarter with the […]
The new President of the United States Donald Trump is expected to give the order to begin works on building his controversial wall between the US and Mexico today. Buildingspecifier investigates: Mr Trump is visiting the Department of Homeland Security today, purportedly to order federal funds to be allocated towards the building of the giant […]
This amazing video shows a giant machine called the SLJ900/32 building a bridge in China. The SLJ900/32 is built by the Beijing Wowjoint Machinery Company and is an impressive 91m long, 7m wide, 9m tall, and weights a staggering 580 tons. You can sense its size in the video below, when you see workers scale down […]
Even though the internet continues to eat into the share of retail spending (15% market share in October 2016), this has not detracted the industry from building in 2016, albeit showing a widespread trend towards smaller project contracts. According to the ‘Does retail offer real opportunity?’ report from construction industry analysts Barbour ABI, the key […]
70% of UK builders have seen an increase in material prices due to the depreciation of the pound, new research from the Federation of Master Builders (FMB) has revealed. Sarah McMonagle, Director of External Affairs at the FMB, said “thousands of smaller building firms are grappling with the rising cost of materials caused by the […]
The government has appointed Lord David Prior of Brampton as new construction minister this week. His wide-ranging brief will include infrastructure and construction policy, alongside industrial strategy and the EU single market. Prior to the appointment, the conservative peer was a junior health minister – but was shuffled into the Department for Business, Energy and […]
Staff shortages, a weak pound and a potential technological uprising are just some of the issues the construction industry is set to face in 2017, according to construction & rail recruitment specialist One Way. An analysis by the leading construction and rail recruitment consultancy has outlined some of the major issues that the building industry […]
Home is a vitally important place for everyone. So it is a sad state of affairs to think that at the moment more than 6 million people in the UK will never be able to buy their own home. And with a massive 1.2 million people currently hanging around on housing waiting lists, something must […]
House prices in the UK will see an average increase of 3% over the course of next year as the number of transactions stabilises, according to the RICS housing forecast for 2017. Forecast in brief Transactions set to stabilise in line with recent trend, but fall short of full year 2016 outturn Supply shortfall to […]
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