A third national lockdown, coupled with continuing Brexit uncertainties, appear to have prompted greater hesitancy among clients, especially for new commercial projects. The monthly survey of buyers by IHS Markit indicated a marginal decline in UK construction output and a slowdown in new order growth to its weakest since June 2020. Meanwhile, transport shortages and…
70-year-old Frank Rothwell is rowing solo 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Frank Rothwell, founder, owner and managing director of portable accommodation supplier Bunkabins, is rowing 3,000 miles from Tenerife to Antigua to raise money for Alzheimer’s Research UK charity. He set off on 12th December with the target of reaching Antigua on Valentine’s Day in…
The Holland Park development will be built on Pitt Street at the site of the old Strathclyde Police HQ. Last month, the project had secured the backing of two major investors, US-based Harrison Street and London-based Apache Capital, which have now secured a four-year £80m debt facility from real estate investment manager BentallGreenOak to fund…
Barratt’s Citiscape development in Croydon, as captured by Google Streetview For the six months to 31st December 2020 Barratt Developments completed 9,077 housing units (2019: 8,314 units) and generated revenue of £2,494.7m, up 10% on the previous year. These numbers were helped by the earlier pause in work and higher forward sales position created by…
Pulse is a portable compressed-air based system The low-pressure Pulse test is now an approved alternative method to the standard blower door test to measure the air tightness of buildings. Pulse is a portable compressed-air based system that is used to measure the air leakage of a building or enclosure at a near ambient pressure…
Artist’s impression of RLW Estates’ planned housing in Waterbeach (Credit: LDA-RLW) South Cambridgeshire District Council’s planning committee voted to support outline proposals from RLW Estates for up to 4,500 more homes. The application covers land between the former Waterbeach airfield and barracks to the west, and the Fen Line railway that links Cambridge to Ely…
Herefordshire Council took the decision to stop all work on a western bypass for Hereford at its full council meeting on 2nd February 2021. It has also axed its southern link road scheme, which represented a follow-on second stage of the bypass. Balfour Beatty has been working on plans for the 8km road with consulting…
CGI of the northern tunnel entrance to the Lower Thames Crossing in Essex Jacobs will act as ‘integration partner, to promote collaboration between Highways England and the Lower Thames Crossing’s three main works contracts. It will be in charge of programme management, stakeholder management and risk management. It will also support the construction, integrated system…
Andy Fancy Andy Fancy joins Hill Group from Countryside to lead Hill’s growing focus on estate regeneration and set up a new southwest division for the business. Estate renewal is a key market for Hill, particularly in London. It has more than 2,200 units under construction and 6,000 in the pipeline. Its current developments include…
Roughly one it 10 construction industry workers in the UK is from another country originally – mostly mainland Europe. There were widely reported fears of an exodus of these – a Brexodus – after the UK left the European Union. This exodus does not appear to have happened. In 2018 10.7% of the UK construction…
