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More than 850 leading construction industry figures attended the LABC Building Excellence Awards at the Westminster Park Plaza Hotel to celebrate best practice, quality, and exemplary standards in construction.
The LABC Building Excellence Awards focus on professional skills and competence, as…
Shortlisted Finalists 8 Bishopsgate, LondonProject Team: Lendlease, WilkinsonEyre Architects, Mitsubishi Estate London, Arup, Turner & Townsend alinea, Stanhope PLCLocal Authority: City of LondonRegion: London Adventure Plus, ClanfieldProject Team: Adventure Plus, MEB…
The government has announced that councils in England will no longer be applying Section 106 charges on smaller residential building schemes. This means it will now be cheaper and easier to build new properties or bring disused buildings back into use.
S106 agreements or ‘developer contributions…
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More than 850 leading construction industry figures attended the LABC Building Excellence Awards at the Westminster Park Plaza Hotel to celebrate best practice, quality, and exemplary standards in construction.
The LABC Building Excellence Awards focus on professional skills and competence, as…
Article updated on 31 January 2024Roof trusses offer a quick and efficient alternative to a conventional timber roof but they're quite delicate when not in their fully braced vertical position.They work through a combination of tension and compression to ensure that the timber chords and web sizes…
Nearly 200,000 people descended on Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset, for one of the world's largest festivals. Throughout most of the year, the venue is a working farm, but during the Glastonbury Festival it transforms into a vast temporary international city.
A huge amount of work takes place…
With all the main political parties making significant commitments to increase housebuilding, LABC has called on them to recognise changes to the industry are needed if any of the pledges are to be implemented.
So far, the Conservatives have pledged to build 1 million homes in the next five…
With a capacity of up to 210,000 people, Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset is set to be one of the world's largest festivals of 2022. Throughout most of the year, the venue is a working farm, but during the Glastonbury Festival it transforms into a vast temporary international city. Usually, Mendip…
On 14 August 2019 Paul Timmins, Chief Executive of ACAI had an article published in Inside Housing in which he argued that the building control sector is on the cusp of disaster due to the difficulties some Approved Inspectors have faced when renewing their insurance. There were a number…