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15 January 2014
14 January 2014
Get cracking with fracking, latest job vacancies, plus build a home for The Simpsons
Howard Chapman, Buildingtalk Editor, writes Get cracking with fracking is the message from the UK Prime Minister this week as an energy supply crisis looms. After years of dithering, including by Ed Miliband when he was Energy Minister, we are facing the prospect of power shortages. So tax incentives to councils are part of a[…]
08 January 2014
The top Buildingtalk Newsletter stories from last year plus construction prospects for 2014
Howard Chapman, Buildingtalk Editor, writes We begin this first Buildingtalk newsletter of the year with a quick look back at some of 2013’s most read stories. Almost 500 readers used the link to the Buildingtalk website to read all about the Geberit toilet installed at The Shard, with this highest loo in Europe featuring in[…]
17 December 2013
Bromford Deal helps young homeless man attain job at Novus
17 December 2013
Build a house in 4 hours plus download latest CAD & BIM app for specifiers
Howard Chapman, Buildingtalk Editor, writes House building news this week: latest ONS statistics show that new residential construction orders are up 41.6% and are now nearly 20% of all construction output. Planning permissions for new homes are up 33%, the highest since 2007. With London’s population growing faster than anytime in history, Boris Johnson[…]
16 December 2013
Marine Plywood is under Q-Mark scheme to enable high quality material
The changes have been brought about after concerns in the industry that some of the material is not meeting the standards of BS 1088:2003: Marine Plywood, defined to ensure a high quality material. The Timber Trade Federation now requires all of its members to comply with BS 1088, stating that products must be of suffient[…]
06 December 2013
Buildingtalk round-up of industry reaction to UK Chancellor’s Autumn Statement
As usual, you should turn to the BBC for the best objective at-a glance’ review of the Autumn Statement, and for interesting comment, Robert Preston is always good for the money. If you want to read the 130 pages of the actual report you can get this for £45 from HM Treasury or just[…]
05 December 2013
Timber Frame to boost housebuilding market in 2014
The research found that value growth in the SIPS market and rising volume demand for open panel timber frame will continue to drive healthy growth for off-site manufacturers and timber suppliers in 2014. Wood panels are set to continue to gain share as housebuilders increasingly adopt timber frame as a more cost effective method of[…]
05 December 2013
Why building for the future means thinking green
Debates about sustainability do not occur in a vacuum. Population growth is one variable that can put huge pressure on the environment and, if the figures from the Office for National Statistics are anything to go by, then that pressure is only going to increase in the UK. According to the ONS’s latest figures, the[…]
