TrustMark, the only Government-endorsed scheme for all trades in and around the home, is working with Buckinghamshire & Surrey Trading Standards, it’s Primary Authority Partner, to provide another ...

Close to £2 million in CITB funding has been given to small, medium and micro-sized construction firms over the last 12 months. A whopping 442 SMEs across Great Britain have successfully applied for £ ...

Skills shortages across the construction industry are set to worsen in 2017 as workload and productivity rises, according to One Way. An analysis by the specialist construction and rail recruiter foun ...

Clarity regarding how the Apprenticeship Levy funding will be invested in Scotland is welcome, the Federation of Master Builder (FMB) Scotland has said, but the Government must now ensure construction ...

As this is the season for giving, UK based paving and walling manufacturer, Tobermore, has donated an amazing £20,000 to Barnardo's in lieu of Christmas gifts. These much-needed funds will make a huge ...

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 ...