AI planning tools will help solve the housing crisis: NFB
Posted: Friday, June 13th, 2025
Extract’ is expected to slash 250,000 hours spent by planning officers each year manually checking documents
Spending Review supports homes and infrastructure growth
Posted: Friday, June 13th, 2025
Rachel Reeves outlined £113 billion of capital investment over the next three years, with core spending on economic and social infrastructure
AUDIO NEWS: Reeves unveils £39 billion investment in social housing and retrofitting skills urgently needed
Posted: Thursday, June 12th, 2025
Chancellor Rachel Reeves unveils £39 billion investment in social housing, plan needed to build national retrofitting skills and builder from Clarkson's Farm recovers from heart surgery
Nearly 14 million Brits unknowingly risk lives, homes, and legal trouble
Posted: Thursday, June 12th, 2025
A quarter (25%) of adults have done potentially illegal gas or electrical DIY work at home, with 29% of those cases the work was completed without building control approval or certification from a registered installer
How to find the right work-life balance?
Posted: Thursday, June 12th, 2025
Stuart Roberts, founder of Trowel Talk, joins Chris Frediani to discuss the challenges felt and faced by self-employed spreads, especially with finding a good work-life balance
AUDIO NEWS: Government likely to do just 56% of housing target and 14m people carry out dangerous DIY
Posted: Wednesday, June 11th, 2025
The government is likely to miss its housing target claims Savills, tool thief convicted and sent to jail and 14 million people admit to carrying out gas or electric DIY tasks
VistaPrint and Checkatrade to help tradespeople grow their business
Posted: Wednesday, June 11th, 2025
The Show Up competition is open exclusively to Checkatrade members who can enter the contest on VistaPrint’s website between now and 7 July
AUDIO NEWS: Construction downturn shows signs of easing and electrician saves passengers from crash site
Posted: Tuesday, June 10th, 2025
Industry downturn shows signs of easing, BIKBBI survey highlights skills crisis and electrician saves two men and day from plane crash in a river
Traction grows for licensing builders, says FMB
Posted: Tuesday, June 10th, 2025
FMB’s new report ‘Licence to Build’ sets out a framework model for implementing a licensing scheme in the UK
BiKBBI Installer survey reveals ageing workforce worsens and skills gap deepens
Posted: Tuesday, June 10th, 2025
Operating costs, a decline in enquiries and customers, and the cost of materials are top concerns for installation businesses
Solar on all new homes must align with 1.5 million homes target: NFB
Posted: Monday, June 9th, 2025
The federation is urging the Government to ensure planning is reformed so that councils cannot oppose solar on the grounds of being out of character
AUDIO NEWS: New build homes will be required to have solar panels, and builder gets role on Mobland
Posted: Monday, June 9th, 2025
New build homes will have to include solar under the Future Homes Standard, painter takes revenge on non-paying customer and builder lands acting role alongside Pierce Brosnan
Dan Tempest weighs in on heat pump implementation challenges
Posted: Monday, June 9th, 2025
Lack of training and proper skills are hampering the growth of the renewable heat sector, says award-winning plumbing and heating engineer Dan Tempest on The Plumbing & Heating Show
CITB makes major investment in National Construction College institutions
Posted: Friday, June 6th, 2025
NCC investment over the next three years will total £39 million for the institutions at Erith, Bircham and Inchinnan
City Plumbing introduces its own electrical brand ElecStore
Posted: Friday, June 6th, 2025
As part of the launch, 35 ElecStore electrical trade counters have also opened across the UK
AUDIO NEWS: Scotland needs to double the number of electricians, and tradesperson launches new app
Posted: Friday, June 6th, 2025
Scotland needs to double its number of electricians to hit Net Zero, HSE issues lead warning and tradesman launches app to automate admin tasks
HPA teams up with NAPIT and NICEIC to host webinar on new RCD guidance
Posted: Thursday, June 5th, 2025
This webinar will provide an overview of the HPA’s latest Guidance on RCD selection for heat pumps
TESP asks employers to participate in apprentice charge-out rates work
Posted: Thursday, June 5th, 2025
TESP aims to gain a deeper understanding of how employers determine charge-out rates for apprentices and the factors that influence this process
AUDIO NEWS: Tradesmen are encouraged to join Dad Strike and pothole-related breakdowns double
Posted: Wednesday, June 4th, 2025
Dad Shift wants tradesmen to go on strike in favour of paternity leave reform, pothole-related breakdowns double in Q1 and LRWA kicks off charity initiative
Builders’ merchant raises £500k for Cancer Research UK
Posted: Wednesday, June 4th, 2025
Selco’s teams climbed more than 38,000m, walked 1.7 million steps and cycled over 11,000 miles for charity
Trade body issues warning over scammers targeting householders with spray foam removal
Posted: Wednesday, June 4th, 2025
Homeowners, including pensioners, have been targeted by cold callers urging them to consider spray foam removal work
AUDIO NEWS: Electric vans improve range and payload, and a joiner gets dragged down the road by thieves
Posted: Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025
The range of electric vans increases by 40% in the five years, a joiner gets dragged down the street trying to save his tools and female Year 9 students try their hand at bricklaying
New Domestic Electrician route added to NICEIC’s Experienced Worker Assessment (EWA) provision
Small house builders ready to deliver, says FMB
Posted: Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025
FMB looks forward to working with the Government on the recent proposals, where smaller housebuilders are said to benefit from more straightforward rules and faster decisions
AUDIO NEWS: Select raises alarm about Scottish brain drain and the Hod-father nears end of Lake District climb
Posted: Monday, June 2nd, 2025
Select raises alarm about Scottish tradespeople heading south to work, builder admits criminal damage and Nigel Howell (AKA the Hod-father) nears end of Lake District challenge
Ideal Heating awarded skills funding to support transition to heat pumps
Posted: Monday, June 2nd, 2025
The Skills Bootcamp funding will enable Ideal Heating to deliver additional courses to installers through Ideal Heating’s Expert Academy training arm
AUDIO NEWS: Government invests in bricklaying and carpentry training and roofers pay drops by nearly 10%
Posted: Friday, May 30th, 2025
Government pledges £3 billion for apprenticeship training, roofers pay drops by nearly 10% since the start of the year and builders reunite baby swan with family
Immigration plans could be ‘ticking time bomb’ for Scottish construction
Posted: Friday, May 30th, 2025
Scottish construction workers are flooding south to fill the resulting shortage south of the Border
NFB and HBA secure major SME housebuilding reforms
Posted: Friday, May 30th, 2025
Sites between ten and 49 homes will face more straightforward rules and fewer costs
Independent testing can bridge retrofit confidence gap
Posted: Friday, May 30th, 2025
New research shows 82% of UK consumers are unconvinced about retrofit benefits, while construction professionals remain optimistic
