New research produced by the FMB and the Local Government Information Unit (LGiU) has revealed some of the barriers to developing small sites and makes a set of practical recommendations on how local ...

Kate Bailey, chair of Policy and Communications Committee at the Landscape Institute said: “It is commendable that the Government is to fund delivery of new housing infrastructure and more affordable ...

77 per cent of construction businesses do not see Brexit as a threat, new data from RSA shows. Leading commercial insurer RSA has today released a report, Future Impacts, which assesses the effects of ...

Commons Committee hits apprenticeship nail on head, says FMB. A warning from MPs that the Government’s apprenticeships programme must raise skill levels is timely, the Federation of Master Builders (F ...

Elmhurst Energy has welcomed the latest house building figures, which show that the Government is on target to build one million homes in this parliament. Figures published by the House Builders Feder ...

Bourne-based property developer Larkfleet Homes is sponsoring a virtual balloon race to support people affected by spina bifida and hydrocephalus (a build-up of fluid on the brain) which has already r ...

Four-in-ten (38%) small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) have suffered cashflow problems over the past two years, according to new research by Amicus Commercial Finance, the specialist lender of fle ...

Industry figures have their say on Philip Hammond’s Autumn Statement… FMB: “Chancellor right to double housing spend” Doubling capital investment on house building and relaxing the timeline for defici ...

In 2017, the British Safety Council will celebrate its 60th anniversary. To demonstrate the contribution it has made to improving the safety and health of workers over the years, the charity will rele ...

“Over the next 40 years, the world needs to build as many new homes as have been built since mankind came into being. If we don’t change the way we build our homes, the impact on the climate will be e ...

The Office for National Statistics has revealed in a report that output in the construction sector between July and September 2016 is down 1.1 per cent in comparison with the previous quarter (Ap ...

The former Chairman of the Lords Built Environment Select Committee has expressed her disappointment at the long delay in publishing a Government response to the Committee findings. The Government pub ...