Increasing levels of gender diversity, widening talent pipelines and improving the wider public image of the sector will help to tackle the ongoing skills shortages plaguing the construction industry, ...

‘Out of office’ but always on – New survey shows Millennial builders desperate to switch-off from work. As the great summer getaway begins, a national survey of small business owners, including builde ...

DIY SOS is calling upon trades and volunteers far and wide to help them with their latest transformation. The project will be one of the Purple Shirts’ most ambitious to date, in only 11 days; the tea ...

The Government’s decision to support the continuation of CITB, is the right decision for our industry, but only if it is subject to fundamental reform, according to the Federation of Master Builders ( ...

Savills’ World Research spotlight on Office Refurbishments in UK Regional Cities Summer 2017 reveals that rising construction costs, along with build cost inflation, is causing developers to switch th ...

A new market report, that is the largest of its kind, has revealed that the self and custom build industry is growing at a rate of 6.25 per cent year on year, marking its third consecutive annual spik ...

Home owners should book in their builder at least four months before their project begins or risk working with a cowboy, new research from the Federation of Master Builders (FMB) has revealed. The res ...

Bill Price, National Commercial Technical Manager for Tarmac Cement, explains how to work with bricks in the heat. In hot weather, laying bricks is a little less straightforward than in cooler conditi ...

Here, Professional Builder rounds up some of the reactions from across the industry to the Queen's speech. Randeesh Sandhu, CEO of Urban Exposure “Almost two weeks on from the dawn of an unexpected hu ...

Sunday night dread does not exist for trades and construction workers, as 76% claim to either ‘love’ or 'really like' their jobs. A survey of 1,220 workers, commissioned to mark the launch of the One4 ...

Homeowners leave themselves at risk by not checking tradesmen's credentials According to the latest research by home service marketplace Plentific.com, nearly four out of five homeowners admit that th ...

Britain is a nation of do it yourself rookies making mistakes in the home that cost a small fortune, according to new research. The survey of 1,011 British adults carried out by home heating oil suppl ...