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Features and news
Confirming previously announced funding, and welfare changes amid adjusted growth forecast.
Scottish Government responds to Grenfell report
As fund for unsafe cladding assessments is launched.
CLC and BSR process map for HRB approvals
One of the initial outputs of their weekly BSR meetings.
Architects Academy at an insulation manufacturing facility
Programme of technical engagement for aspiring designers.
Building Safety Levy technical consultation response
Details of the planned levy now due in 2026.
Great British Energy install solar on school and NHS sites
200 schools and 200 NHS sites to get solar systems, as first project of the newly formed government initiative.
600 million for 60,000 more skilled construction workers
Announced by Treasury ahead of the Spring Statement.
The restoration of the novelist’s birthplace in Eastwood.
Life Critical Fire Safety External Wall System LCFS EWS
Breaking down what is meant by this now often used term.
PAC report on the Remediation of Dangerous Cladding
Recommendations on workforce, transparency, support, insurance, funding, fraud and mismanagement.
New towns, expanded settlements and housing delivery
Modular inquiry asks if new towns and expanded settlements are an effective means of delivering housing.
Building Engineering Business Survey Q1 2025
Survey shows growth remains flat as skill shortages and volatile pricing persist.
Construction contract awards remain buoyant
Infrastructure up but residential struggles.
Warm Homes Plan and existing energy bill support policies
Breaking down what existing policies are and what they do.
A dynamic brand built for impact stitched into BSRIA’s building fabric.
Around the web
Concerns voiced over the Planning and Infrastructure Bill.
Mock-up testing.
ECA Industry Awards 2025 has launched.
CDEs for city-level digital twins: what’s needed?
Construction Management, 25 March
Slow apprenticeship levels may threaten Labour’s growth agenda.
Co-ordinate Built Environment Research for the Public Good.
Heritage in Transition: Skills and Approaches for Sustainability.
Construction Management, 24 March
Building Safety Levy pushed back to autumn 2026.
The Building Safety Act for Everyday Projects.
Measuring Mass Timber: A mass timber whole life carbon and quality of life method.
Market Intelligence - Global HVAC and BACS markets webinar.
Registration open for DCW 2025.
Planning and Infrastructure Bill huge opportunity for the built environment, says CIC.
Action taken to protect households with poor-quality insulation installed under ECO4 and GBIS schemes.
Conflict Avoidance Week – 24 to 28 March 2025.
Building a Safer Future, 23-27 June
Inaugural Building Safety Week at the InstallerSHOW.
2025 School ‘Heritage in Context – Value: Plan: Change’.