Construction
Top roofing firm Marley looks to float
Britain's biggest manufacture of roofing tiles is planning an IPO on the London Stock Exchange.
Offsite housebuilding factory opens for business
Weston Homes' spin-off modular construction company, British Offsite, has officially launched.
Sandy Mitchell: How to beat the competition & hire the dream project team
"It is a crazy sellers’ market for architects, designers and the like," writes Redbook founder Sandy Mitchell.
Government pitches a ‘major scaling up’ of custom & self-built homes
30-40,000 custom and self-build (CSB) homes could and should be built in the UK each year, says Richard Bacon, in a report that rails against "houses designed by accountants".
Construction giant pulls back from London resi market
Balfour Beatty confirms it will ‘no longer bid for fixed price residential property projects in central London’ as Covid-19 disruption leads to delays & write-downs.
Building material shortages are causing an ‘adversarial atmosphere’, warn lawyers; could ‘rewrite the rule book’
“Contractors and developers alike are being left in completely untenable positions because the cost of developments is varying so greatly," says law firm Womble Bond Dickinson, warning that a return…
Mega Digs: Exploring London’s elite ‘basement belt’
London has seen "a normalisation of single-storey basements as the 21st-century version of the loft conversion," says Professor Burrows in a new study of the capital's "luxified troglodytism".
Building material costs likely to rise by 10% over the next year
Construction growth - led by the private housing sector - is placing new pressure on labour and supply chains, warns the RICS.
Housebuilding industry launches Future Homes Delivery Plan
The Future Homes Task Force has published a "sector-wide climate and environment plan for high quality homes and places".
Bankside Yards to be UK’s first 100% electric major mixed-use development
Native Land's £2.5bn five acre development on London's South Bank aims to "set a new benchmark for sustainability in large, mixed-use regeneration schemes."
‘Property buyers looking to take on renovation projects should be aware of the difficulties in this sector, and proceed with caution’
Property buyers should be aware of high costs and scarcity in the building industry, warns James Law of buying agency Stacks.
Modulous recruits heavyweight design and tech names
Former Squire & Partners and Canary Wharf Group director Chris Hartiss has joined construction "scale-up" company Modulous, as has ex-UBS man Correy Voo.