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Things are what you might call looking up.

Well, here we are again, at the start of another new year. Happy New Year!

So, another year and another Conference goes by.

I wrote most of this blog this morning (November 25) before the Chancellor released his Autumn Statement. To be honest, I wasn't really expecting to have to rewrite it in the wake of an announcement about a massive injection of infrastructure spending into energy efficiency. But it would have been nice.

You couldn't make this stuff up.

Whilst there are reports that the economy is coming out of recession and in construction some of the bigger firms are reporting that things are less gloomy, it would appear that the supply side of the built environment is still making life difficult for itself.

While building and construction is often considered as a traditional or conservative industry, which progresses slowly, we cannot expect it to remain immune from these changes.

It would appear that despite the odd downpour (well, what with Wimbledon, the Cricket and Glastonbury, what did you expect?!), the weather is set fair for the next few weeks.

The Chancellor's 2016 Budget set a target of a million new homes by 2020 (200k per year), which looks very encouraging for the building trade and the Merchant sector.

69% of survey respondents are interested in making energy efficient improvements to their homes, but 96% have never heard of the Green Deal.