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New guide published on measuring and reporting waste across the built environment

The Supply Chain Sustainability School today launches a vital new guide, Measuring and Reporting Waste in the Built Environment: A Practical Guide, which reveals the scale of built environment waste and what the industry must do next. The UK construction ...

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Gleeds construction market report reveals industry caution

The latest Market Report from construction consultancy, Gleeds, has revealed that almost three quarters of construction professionals in the UK feel the current economic and political climate is negatively impacting contracts. Contract conditions and heightened risk profile were common factors ...

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Free programme launches to tackle net zero skills gaps across the construction supply chain

Berkeley Group, in partnership with the Supply Chain Sustainability School, has launched the Net Zero Skills in Construction Programme – a practical initiative aimed at equipping the built environment sector with the skills needed to meet the UK’s net-zero goals. ...

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Construction launches Skills Mission

Senior leaders from across construction and Government Ministers will today (26 June) launch the construction sector skills mission, to ensure the sector has the workforce it needs to deliver. The Construction Skills Mission Board will meet to set a strategy ...

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An acute data quality crisis may be costing UK construction companies far more than expected.

A new report from carbon and margin-saving ConTech platform QFlow (Qualis Flow), has revealed a shocking 91 per cent of construction-related documentation continually fails to meet basic quality standards. The “State of Data Quality in Construction” report, based on over ...

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Gender diversity needs to be a strategic priority if the built environment industry is to tackle skills crisis

Tackling the UK construction sector’s biggest challenge will prove impossible as long as businesses persist in simultaneously paying ‘lip service’ to gender diversity while refusing to make structural and cultural changes to their operations, according to the Circle Partnership. PwC’s ...

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New trade body to drive professionalism in the property flood resilience sector

The International Property Flood Resilience Association (IPFRA) launches with a mission to support, promote, and grow the property flood resilience (PFR) sector as it becomes an increasingly mainstream part of construction and environmental resilience strategies. Until now, there has been ...

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UK construction workloads stable amid cautious growth outlook

Construction workloads remain largely stable, with signs pointing to modest growth in the year ahead, particularly driven by infrastructure projects. This is according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Q1 2025 UK Construction Monitor which reveals the overall ...

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Sodexo partners to lay building blocks to employment for prison leavers

Sodexo has partnered with a construction consortium on an innovative project, which is providing skills-based training to prisoners ahead of their release to support future roles in the construction industry. Constructed Pathways, funded by Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority, has ...

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Building costs forecast to rise 17% in next five years

According to the latest construction forecast data from the Building Cost Information Service (BCIS), building costs will increase by 17 per cent over the next five years to 1Q 2030, while tender prices will rise by 15 per cent over ...

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