The Building Cost Information Service (BCIS) has acquired price book business Griffiths & Hutchins Publications to expand its offering to the built environment industry. The takeover will boost BCIS’ efforts to support the market with construction costs and will also ...

Wates Group has been named one of the Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2023, and has also been recognised by Women Into Construction. Now in its 13th year with Business in the Community (BITC), The Times Top 50 ...

International consultancy and construction company, Mace, is calling on the UK construction industry and government to ramp up efforts to retrofit non-domestic buildings through a series of recommendations. The policy recommendation, included in its report ‘Transform & Renew – Making ...

The third annual Social Value in Construction Benchmarking Report, produced jointly by social value measurement and monitoring platform Social Value Portal and SCAPE, one of the UK’s leading public sector procurement authorities shows that £1.08 billion social value was generated ...

Construction firm, Skanska, has partnered with Maximus to provide mental health support for its UK employees and help improve wellbeing in the wider construction sector. Skanska, which employs more than 3,300 local experts in the UK, delivers projects across sectors ...

UK provider of essential infrastructure, social housing maintenance and construction services, United Living is to be acquired by American private equity firm, Apollo. Both firms have entered into a definitive agreement with the acquisition expected to be completed over the ...

Yesterday (24 May), marked one year since the World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) launched a bold new policy plan, the EU Policy Whole Life Carbon Roadmap, to help the European Union accelerate total decarbonisation of buildings and construction — the ...

Wates Group has announced a new partnership with the charity PAPYRUS to train almost 400 people across its company and in local communities to prevent suicide among young people. Employees of the family-owned development, building and property maintenance company, were ...

Skanska UK has named Dan Williams as the new Managing Director of its building services operating unit, which specialises in facilities management and mechanical, electrical and public health (MEP) engineering. Williams moves into the MD role from his current position ...

Facilities management and maintenance organisation, VIVO Defence Services, has become a company supporter of the Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity, which provides emotional, physical and financial wellbeing support to construction workers and their families. VIVO, a joint venture between Serco and ...