The government has unveiled its shakeup of housing policy, which is intended to ‘empower’ millions of social housing tenants and hold landlords to account. More than three years after the Grenfell Tower disaster, the government has announced its long-awaited shake-up...
Leading voices within the construction industry are calling upon the government to go further with their new net-zero carbon plans. On 18th November, Boris Johnson announced a 10-point plan to usher in a ‘green industrial revolution.’ As reported by Construction News,...
A new research initiative will look into ways to help the UK construction industry address the issue of waste. We wrote a recent Advantage blog post about the UK’s construction output being up by 41.7% in the third quarter of 2020. Of course, this is good news for the...
Construction output in the third quarter of 2020 rose by 41.7% on Q2, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). As reported by Mortgage Introducer, the data shows that this rise was a result of a 40.8% increase in new work, and a 43.4% uplift in repair...
As many businesses closed their doors for the second nationwide lockdown this week, the Guardian reported that the construction sector was brightening the economic gloom in the UK. Phillip Inman wrote that: “With the services and manufacturing sector suffering a sharp...
