BoB volunteers revamp landscaper’s home battling sight loss
Posted: Saturday, December 21st, 2024
The work, which involved finishing the decorating and hanging new doors upstairs, took four days, five builders and cost £2,600
New skills plan for Falkirk Council to tackle lack of trades
Posted: Saturday, December 21st, 2024
'Bolt-on skills', more apprentices and private contractors are all helping the Scottish town’s council tackle a major shortage of staff
Institutes mobilise to save Level 7 apprenticeships
Posted: Friday, December 20th, 2024
The Joint Institutes, representing around 200,000 professionals across the built environment, is calling for built environment Level 7 apprenticeships to be exempt from reforms in access to the new growth & skills levy
CITB Consensus moved to March 2025
Posted: Friday, December 20th, 2024
Consensus is the process through which CITB seeks Levy-paying employers’ views and agreement on its plans for generating the Levy and the skills and training this will deliver to the industry
BESA awarded heat network training contract
Posted: Thursday, December 19th, 2024
The trade body has been awarded a contract to deliver training to those working in roles created by the Heat Network Technical Assurance Scheme
Construction project starts and contract awards overtake last year
Posted: Thursday, December 19th, 2024
Glenigan’s December review indicates a pick-up in momentum as economic certainty starts to return
AUDIO NEWS: 86% of tradespeople plan to work over Christmas and roofers face increasing payment issues
Posted: Thursday, December 19th, 2024
Most tradespeople expect to work over the festive break, (but only half will charge extra money), roofers having a tough time getting paid and tool theft expected to be up over Christmas
AUDIO NEWS: Tom Hardy offers to pay builders and FMB calls on government to give small builders a chance!
Posted: Wednesday, December 18th, 2024
Tom Hardy offers to step in and pay salaries of unpaid builders, the FMB publishes report calling on reform of housebuilding market and landscaper from the Isle of Wright takes the plunge raise money for charity
Construction associations join campaign against inheritance tax reforms
Posted: Wednesday, December 18th, 2024
Changes to BPR and APR will mean that business and farm assets worth more than £1m will now be subject to 20% inheritance tax when the business owner dies
New apprentice pay rates to come into effect January 2025
Posted: Wednesday, December 18th, 2024
ECA, SELECT and Unite the Union have collaborated to implement new apprentice pay rates
AUDIO NEWS: Plumbers are the most in-demand trade and a lack of teachers hits building plans
Posted: Tuesday, December 17th, 2024
Jobs for plumbers make up nearly a quarter of all trade job ads, a lack of teachers could trip up plans to build 1.5 million homes, and plumber fixes broken toilet to spread some Christmas cheer
Police warning over forceful Worcestershire rogue traders
Posted: Tuesday, December 17th, 2024
Rogue tradesmen 'aggressively' demand large sums of money for resurfacing work in North Worcestershire
Housebuilders say Labour housebuilding plans unachievable
Posted: Tuesday, December 17th, 2024
Challenges to housebuilding include a lack of recruits to the construction sector in recent years
Tear down barriers to help diversify the housing market, says FMB
Posted: Monday, December 16th, 2024
Research reveals that the housing market cannot be relied upon to readjust to deliver the SME housing output seen in the 1980s when they accounted for 40% of all new homes
BoB completes project for roofer with broken back
Posted: Monday, December 16th, 2024
Jim Gallacher could not complete work on his home he’d started after breaking his back and neck in a fall from 8m high scaffolding at work
AUDIO NEWS: Small builders ignored in NPPF revision and Band of Builders helps roofer with extension
Posted: Monday, December 16th, 2024
Failure to increase the small site allocation in NPPF a major disappointment, Construction T-level scrapped after just four years and Band of Builders helps roofer to complete his extension
NPPF review welcomed, but SMEs still wait for support
Posted: Saturday, December 14th, 2024
NFB believes the changes are vital in stepping up the challenge of building 300,000 homes a year
MCS launches new Heat Load Calculator tool for installers
Posted: Saturday, December 14th, 2024
The new online tool will help MCS-certified low-carbon heating installers complete a BS EN 12831-1: 2017 compliant heat load calculation
AUDIO NEWS: CMA launches building bid-rigging investigation and VIY and Toolstation restore clubhouse
Posted: Friday, December 13th, 2024
The Competition & Markets Authority launches investigation into bid-rigging in construction, government outlines ideas to accelerate house building and VIY and Toolstation restore community clubhouse
AUDIO NEWS: 99% of social landlords report mould issues and Band of Builders completes latest project
Posted: Thursday, December 12th, 2024
Nearly 100% of social landlords report mould issues, independent roofing inspectors are needed to guarantee work and safety standards and Band of Builders heats home of former bricky
CITB to host plant training and competency events
Posted: Thursday, December 12th, 2024
The events will unveil the role of CITB as a standard-setting body and the role of PSRO concerning card schemes
Small builders key to delivering 1.5 million housing target, says FMB
Posted: Thursday, December 12th, 2024
FMB says that the goal of building 1.5 million homes over the next five years will not be viable without significant steps to tackle the ongoing construction skills crisis
Builders’ merchant insolvencies significantly decline in November
Posted: Thursday, December 12th, 2024
With numbers falling from 21 in October to just six in November, this reduction shows positive news for the merchanting industry
Electrical businesses brace for project delays in 2025
Posted: Thursday, December 12th, 2024
Almost a quarter (23%) of firms expect their business performance to have worsened by the end of this year
AUDIO NEWS: Electrical businesses expecting project delays and a cheap festive period at the petrol pump
Posted: Wednesday, December 11th, 2024
Two thirds of electrical businesses expecting project delays in 2025, roofing company fined and director given a suspended for breach of HSE laws and it's going to be a cheap Christmas at the petrol pump!
UK tradespeople owed £3.5 billion this Christmas
Posted: Tuesday, December 10th, 2024
Over 70% of UK tradespeople have experienced outright payment refusal, taking its toll on home and family life
Non-residential growth balances construction slowdown
Posted: Tuesday, December 10th, 2024
Glenigan finds hotel, leisure, and education projects are driving gains despite faltering residential and civils work
AUDIO NEWS: Tradies owned £3.9 billion claims Ford, and additional NI costs push back construction recovery
Posted: Monday, December 9th, 2024
UK Tradespeople owned £3.9 billion by homeowners, National Insurance increase add 1% to building costs and pushes market recovery into 2026 and painter creates pay packet for son of customer
Mount Snowdon brings in £3k for trio from builders’ merchants
Posted: Monday, December 9th, 2024
The team from Parker Building Supplies, joined forces to raise funds for Teenage Cancer Trust completing the challenge in just six and half hours.
AUDIO NEWS: Builders unimpressed with Autumn budget and commercial work takes off in November
Posted: Monday, December 9th, 2024
The Autumn Budget fails to impress contractors, commercial projects increase in November but housebuilding falls and nurseries raise over £14,000 in memory of the Potty Painter
