Baxi has joined forces with Expert Trades to make life easier for its installers, by helping them to win more business and spend less time on admin and paperwork. Expert Trades was set up in 2013 to p ...

The Apprenticeship Levy is to be introduced this year, and will potentially affect all businesses. Here are some of the changes that have been made to what was seen as an unpopular Levy: 20 per cent e ...

The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) has announced plans to change how it pays grants to construction companies. The new system, to be rolled out in April 2018, will introduce automated gra ...

Ian Anfield, Managing Director for leading construction audit and contract provider, Hudson Contract, comments on recent interview with Sarah Beale, CEO of the CITB. “While we welcome the CITB’s effor ...

Almost three in every five (57%) SME business owners say that they do not feel confident about the UK’s economic outlook for 2017, according to the Close Brothers Business Barometer. The quarterly sur ...

In response to a speech by the Prime Minister on the UK’s future relationship with the EU, Julia Evans, BSRIA Chief Executive, said: “[Last week,] the Prime Minister, Theresa May, altered the politica ...

Following the publication of a newly published report which highlighted what problems SMEs face in the UK housing crisis, the House Builder’s Association agrees with the findings. For the past ten yea ...

  The construction industry is more optimistic about the economy this year than other sectors after experiencing a less negative impact from Brexit - that’s according to the findings of a newly p ...

Mark Farmer warns CLG Select Committee that the construction sector doesn’t have the capacity to deliver homes Mark Farmer, CEO of Cast and the author of the hard-hitting ‘Farmer Review’, gave evidenc ...

Outstanding achievements in house building were celebrated on Friday as NHBC announced the four Supreme Winners of the NHBC Pride in the Job Awards 2016 at a gala dinner to an industry audience of 750 ...

  Nearly half (47%) of small and medium-sized business (SME) owners claim the business advice they received in the last year from their mainstream bank had a negative impact on their business ope ...

CITB is to begin its consultation with industry on a new Levy offer which would see an across the board reduction in the Levy for all firms to fund a new more relevant offer for industry and a reforme ...

Shurtape is delighted to announce that its T-Rex vehicle will be hitting the road this year, starting at February’s ProBuilder Show in London. Alan Murray, Head of Marketing at Shurtape, comments: “We ...

A leading building industry expert has backed Shropshire concrete block producer Besblock to be flag-bearers for the campaign to preserve the traditional housing industry. Recent figures suggested a d ...

Saw blade specialist, Starrett has invested its knowledge in band saw machines, blades and hole saws into a newly launched showroom and demonstration zone in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. Starrett’s ne ...

New Construction Minister appointed at crucial moment, says FMB The new Construction Minister has been appointed at a crucial juncture in the industry’s history, the Federation of Master Builders (FMB ...