Industry news

Kingspan’s Building Designers and Architects Event educates on timber frame ...

26/Aug/2019

Building designers, architects or architectural technicians wanting to get to grips with the finer points of designing homes to be constructed from timber frame or Structurally Insulated Panels (SIPs) should ...

Shelter highlights 280,000 shortfall in homes completed, compared to permissions ...

15/Aug/2019

Shelter's data indicates a 280,000 shortfall between planning permissions granted and the number of homes built out since 2013 ...

Build It Awards 2019 open for industry entries ...

15/Jul/2019

Enter your business into the Build It Awards 2019 - celebrating the best products and projects in the custom and self build world. ...

Free ticket offer: Discover Housing 2019’s brand new MMC stage ...

14/May/2019

NaCSBA is pleased to be supporting Housing 2019, Europe’s largest and most inclusive housing festival and the Chartered Institute of Housing’s (CIH) annual conference. Taking place over three days in ...

SME builders show dip in workload for first time in ...

12/May/2019

The FMB has reported that workloads for small and medium-sized (SME) construction firms have dipped for the first time in six years ...

Grand Designs: The Street brings Graven Hill and serviced plots ...

01/Apr/2019

Grand Designs: The Street airs on Thursday on Channel 4 this week, with six episodes sharing the progress of the pioneer builders at Graven Hill over the last five years. ...

Bouyant show attendance reflects south-east self builders not limited by ...

25/Feb/2019

Healthy visitor numbers to Homebuilding & Renovating's south east show reveal a bouyant market resisting the Brexit blues ...

House prices grind to a halt at start of 2019 ...

10/Feb/2019

A series of reports have been published at the start of January 2019 that reflect the influence that Brexit uncertainty is having on the wider property market. The Halifax found ...

RIBA puts case for greater self build sector support in ...

25/Oct/2018

In response to findings from the Letwin Review, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has published an analysis of the necessary conditions for, and characteristics of, high-quality new places ...

Self-Build Homes book: Expert commentary says homes not houses ...

19/Feb/2018

UCL Press has published Self-Build homes: Social Discourse, Experiences and Directions, a collection of essays that looks at how the social dimensions connected with the sector might advance theory, research ...