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    Apprentice honoured for resilience

    Ben Hall, a 22-year-old joinery apprentice from Lancashire, has been recognised with the Overcoming Adver ...

    Ben Hall, a 22-year-old joinery apprentice from Lancashire, has been recognised with the Overcoming Adversity Award at The Young Person in Construction Awards 2023 held by the Construction Development ...

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    Britons believe government ignores housing crisis

    Only a fifth of UK homeowners believe the government is doing enough to combat the housing crisis, new re ...

    Only a fifth of UK homeowners believe the government is doing enough to combat the housing crisis, new research from Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has revealed. The specialist lender commissioned a ...

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    North Yorks top new build chart

    Research by peer-to-peer real estate investment platform, easyMoney, has revealed that North Yorkshire is ...

    Research by peer-to-peer real estate investment platform, easyMoney, has revealed that North Yorkshire is the UK's top spot for new-build residential property investment. This finding is based on the ...

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    Historic England gets stones online

    Historic England is introducing The Building Stones Database for England. It's the first online tool of i ...

    Historic England is introducing The Building Stones Database for England. It's the first online tool of its kind in the country, collecting data on more than 4,000 types of building stone, their appli ...

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    L for lower carbon

    The grace period for Part L compliance ended on June 15th, leaving no doubts about the Government’s ambit ...

    The grace period for Part L compliance ended on June 15th, leaving no doubts about the Government’s ambitions for low-emission, energy-efficient homes. Steve Callow, housing manager, MPA Masonry, repo ...

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    Life sentence

    Scott Wolters, building products sales manager at Egger UK, explains why builders need to take a ‘whole l ...

    Scott Wolters, building products sales manager at Egger UK, explains why builders need to take a ‘whole life’ view of timber building products, as well as the activities of supply partners, to underst ...

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    Race to zero

    The race to net zero is on, with changing building regulations driving a shift towards more energy effici ...

    The race to net zero is on, with changing building regulations driving a shift towards more energy efficient and climate resilient homes. Here, Gonzalo Bunse, category director at Wienerberger UK and ...

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    Editor Johnny Dobbyn looks at the Head of Political Economy at the Institute of Economic Affairs

    Credit: iStock tzahiV NIMBY vs YIMBY Dr Kristian Niemietz, Head of Political Economy at the Institute of ...

    Credit: iStock tzahiV NIMBY vs YIMBY Dr Kristian Niemietz, Head of Political Economy at the Institute of Economic Affairs, recently written that pro-housing voters do not reward development-friendly p ...

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    NHBC training hub for Cambridge

    The National House Building Council (NHBC) has launched a new training hub near Histon Football Club in C ...

    The National House Building Council (NHBC) has launched a new training hub near Histon Football Club in Cambridge. Built with the Hill Group, the facility can train more than 100 apprentices each year ...

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    HSE crackdown on dust

    The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has strongly criticised the failure to prevent life-threatening dis ...

    The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has strongly criticised the failure to prevent life-threatening diseases linked to dust exposure at work. As a response, the HSE is preparing to target constructi ...

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