The construction industry has started 2017 strongly, with an increase in activity levels as the value of new building contracts awarded in January reached £6 billion, spearheaded by strong figures fro ...

HMRC’s yield from tax investigations into the construction industry fell 34% last year to £102m, down from £154.2m in 2014/15, says UHY Hacker Young, the national accountancy group. The amount of addi ...

Commenting on the new construction output figures published by the ONS today which show an increase in output, Michael Thirkettle, Chief Executive of leading interdisciplinary international constructi ...

The latest research from home services marketplace, Plentific.com, shows that, on average, almost a quarter of homeowners are planning to spend more this year on home improvements in at least one area ...

Industry figures have their say on today's housing white paper Brian Berry, Chief Executive of the FMB “I’m pleased that the White Paper recognises the potential for SMEs to deliver far more homes tha ...

More than 150,000 new homes were registered in the UK by NHBC in 2016, the second highest in almost a decade. 151,687 new homes were registered by NHBC in 2016, a slight decrease of 2% compared to 201 ...

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 ...