The  Get Britain Building campaign, developed by the Building Alliance and the Federation of Master Builders, has been relaunched. It sets out four clear pillars to drive rapid economic growth, and focuses on creating skilled employment, strengthening the construction supply chain and increasing the participation of SMEs.   At the …

Total UK construction output is forecast to fall by 4.0% in 2026, with 2027 only bringing a rise of 0.4%. That’s according to the latest Construction Products Association forecasts, released on Friday. This is a revision down from a fall of 3.3% expected in 2026 and a rise of 1.2% …

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, John Healey, needs to provide confidence, and not simply, hope with his ambitions for the housing. That’s according to Civils & Lintels’  managing director Allan Wright, who hopes Healey’s first Budget next week will give the industry definitive timelines and tangible action to boost confidence. …

On Saturday 14th November, a team from north-east based builders merchant JT Atkinson will be taking on the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge. The group want to raise money to support their friend Ali from ECC Timber, who is living with motor neurone disease (MND). The company says: “Ali is much …

Policies and good intentions need to be acted upon, and inclusion embedded into everyday leadership, behaviour and decision-making in the construction sector. That’s the message that came out of the Construction Inclusion Coalition’s 2026 conference. The Coalition in Conversation event brought together senior figures from across construction and the built …

But I, being young and foolish, With her would not agree I spent the early part of today getting my head around the Government’s Industrial Strategy about jobs, announced yesterday. Hooray. Earlier this year, an interim report into young people and employment by former minister Alan Milburn, found that nearly …

One may smile and smile and be a villain Just because I haven’t written about something for a while doesn’t mean I’ve forgotten about it. The trouble is, there are only so many ways that even someone with eons of journalistic experience can say that Russia’s war against Ukraine is …

There’s a new CEO at independent sixth-generation family-run builders merchant The Bence Group in Cheltenham. The company has revealed a new senior leadership structure to drive its next phase of growth. Managing director Paul Bence moves into the newly created Chief Executive Officer role, and will focus more on strategy, …

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing The first time I ever went to Edinburgh it was something of a ghost town. Bear with me, this is relevant. It wasn’t because of the spooks and spectres that haunt the Castle and …

Construction activity fell at a slower pace than in August, but total news orders fell at the steepest pace for three months, bringing business optimism down to its lowest point since May. That’s the headline results from the latest S&P Global UK Construction Purchasing Managers’ Index™ for September. Slower rates …