UK Construction Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Building costs are forecast to increase 17% over the next five years, with tender prices rising 15% over the same period. Material costs show moderation from 2022 peaks, yet labour cost inflation persists at 4.7% in Q1 2025 with an expected 18% increase through 2030. in Q1 2025 with an expected 18% increase through 2030.

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Construction Specifier

APRIL 27, 2025

Precast concrete is a desirable material for these buildings for a variety of reasons, whether used for walls, floors, and roof panels in a total precast structure or as an enclosure system. While data centers are currently being constructed at a fast pace, they are not a new building type.

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UK Construction Blog

JUNE 24, 2025

Energy bills in Britain have doubled in just four years, and the government’s 2030 net-zero milestones are forcing homeowners to rethink how they heat—and insulate—their properties. With the Future Homes Standard on the horizon, poor-performing walls will soon leave homes unsellable—or painfully expensive to run.

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Construction Specifier

APRIL 9, 2025

percent embodied carbon savings compared to the regional industry average 28-day standard-cured compressive strength, rising to as much as 68 percent with specific applications in the building. In addition, the city required the project to install photovoltaics (PV) on the buildings roof. It achieved 52.4

Energy Efficiency 59

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CCR Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2025

In construction, it means leveraging tools such as Building Information Modeling (BIM), artificial intelligence, drones, and IoT-enabled devices to streamline processes, enhance productivity, and reduce costs. Rising prices for materials, shortages of workers, and unpredictable market conditions make this even harder.

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BDC Network

APRIL 21, 2023

Learn about engineered wood’s key role as a green building solution. APA – THE ENGINEERED WOOD ASSOCIATION The increasing threat of climate change has more and more building owners and homebuyers considering the sustainability of their structures and the role construction plays in global warming and use of our natural resources.

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Civil + Structural Engineer

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

According to AARP, by 2030, one in five persons in the US will be age 65 or older; by 2034, people over age 65 will outnumber children aged 17 or younger. Images of restaurant chains designing small buildings elevated above three or four drive-thru lanes are almost other-worldly.

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Civil + Structural Engineer

APRIL 5, 2024

PAE Engineers enjoys a unique symbol of its brand identity – the company’s Portland headquarters office, which is the world’s first developer-driven Living Building. PAE’s Living Building Challenge The PAE Living Building is a five-story, 58,000-square-foot mixed-use building located in a historic neighborhood in Portland.

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Construction Specifier

JUNE 17, 2024

2 Buildings are responsible for approximately 42 percent of CO2 emissions, 15 percent of which is attributed to the embodied carbon of materials. trillion sf) of building floorspace by 2060—equivalent space of New York City added every month for 40 years—the time for the industry to act is now.

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Construction Specifier

MARCH 12, 2021

As buildings become more complex and connected, the demand for BUILDING materials supporting high-performance facilities has also increased. This includes building controls, lighting, electrical and digital infrastructure, audio/visual (A/V), and other aspects of the structure. Photos © Legrand. by Patrick Ford.

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BDC Network

MARCH 29, 2024

Demystifying carbon offsets vs direct reductions 0 qpurcell Fri, 03/29/2024 - 11:18 Sustainability Chris Forney, Principal, Brightworks Sustainability, and Rob Atkinson, Senior Project Manager, IA Interior Architects, share the misconceptions about carbon offsets and identify opportunities for realizing a carbon-neutral building portfolio.

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UK Construction Blog

JUNE 24, 2025

Key Takeaways Manchester United is building the UK’s largest football stadium with a 100,000-seat capacity on land adjacent to Old Trafford, designed by Foster + Partners as part of a £2 billion regeneration project set to complete by 2030-31. The project promises significant economic benefits with Oxford Economics projecting £7.3

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

MARCH 31, 2022

trillion of global construction output by 2030. APAC construction experts say that the top factors holding the industry back are high material costs (78% of survey respondents), financial constraints (72%), and decreased demand (68%). Costs related to construction and materials are projected to rise 6% and 7% respectively.

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iField Smart

APRIL 23, 2024

Building Better: Maximizing Efficiency with Construction Management Software Solutions Efficiency within the construction landscape points to accomplishing tasks, processes, and projects with minimum effort, resources, and time. billion by 2030. It requires adherence to quality assurance, perpetual improvements, and industry standards.

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Construction Specifier

OCTOBER 1, 2021

As more people return to workplaces, schools, hotels, event venues, and other destinations, they seek reassurance that building owners share their concerns not only for environmental health, but also for their personal health. Together, they provide the finished metal products needed for commercial, institutional, and residential buildings.

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BDC Network

JUNE 8, 2024

million skilled jobs by 2030. As a buildings-performance expert, I have decades of experience designing high-performance, sustainable, and energy-efficient systems for a variety of industrial clients. The heat required to melt material radiates through the space. Thus, worker retention is a bottom-line issue. They leak air.

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Construction Specifier

JUNE 9, 2022

Deep energy renovations of commercial and multi-unit residential buildings are critical if cities want to tackle their climate emissions on a large scale. Energy renovation could provide up to 55 percent of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions needed to meet 2030 targets, aligning cities with a 1.5 By Alejandra Nieto.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

JULY 27, 2023

In 2022, the International Energy Agency (IEA) published that according to the latest data, the built environment generates 40% of annual global CO2 emissions (Architecture 2030). Of those emissions, 27% are attributed to building operations, known as “operational carbon”. View and compare materials.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

MARCH 7, 2022

The Bureau of Labor Statistics has projected employment to grow 5% between 2020 and 2030. Doing so requires significant investment in monitoring timelines, building in efficiencies, and managing budgets to ensure the best results and greatest profitability. . The plumbing contracting industry continues to grow at a promising rate.

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BDC Network

APRIL 18, 2024

The next destination: Passive design airports 0 qpurcell Thu, 04/18/2024 - 13:59 Airports Today, we can design airports that are climate resilient, durable, long-lasting, and healthy for occupants—we can design airports using Passive House standards. New airports often mandate the use of local materials to reduce their carbon footprint.

Renewable Energy Systems 59

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Stok

AUGUST 28, 2019

Interface’s Mikhail Davis, Gensler’s Kristen Ritchie, and Skanska’s Stacy Smedley discussed the intersection of materials specifications with recognizing and acting on the time value of carbon. This comes on the heels of Berkeley’s historic move to ban natural gas hook-ups in new buildings starting January 1, 2020.

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Construction Specifier

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

These documents provide valuable insights into the environmental and health impacts of building materials, respectively. An EPD is a standardized, third-party verification of a products environmental impacts throughout its lifecycle.

Environmental Impact Assessment 52

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Plant & Civil Engineer

JULY 3, 2023

The state-of-the-art 26 tonne electric concrete mixer will serve the business’ busy London Concrete arm, supplying essential ready-mix concrete materials across the Capital. As part of this, the business has committed to upgrading its 2,000-strong fleet of corporate cars and vans to electric vehicles (EV) by 2030.

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CCR Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

CONTRAFLAM® One is Vetrotech’s newest answer to today’s call for building products that empower architects to design more responsibly. Efforts to lower carbon emissions at each stage help building professionals reduce embodied carbon to improve their own decarbonization efforts and align with LEED v4.1 requirements.

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BDC Network

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Joint public-private sector effort needed to mitigate the construction sector’s embodied carbon problem It's going to take the efforts of government and the private sector to mitigate the climate-damaging problem of embodied carbon, says this building sustainability expert, Brent Trenga.

Building Materials Manufacturing 52

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Construction Daily News

JUNE 20, 2023

Meanwhile, Construction loans cover land, blueprints, permits, labor, and materials. “The AGC Task Force unites some of the biggest construction companies to support the industry’s decarbonization efforts,” said Skanska USA Building’s national vice president of sustainability, Myrrh Caplan.

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Practical Law Construction

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Major standard forms have responded to market demand and made provision for carbon reduction provisions, for example, JCT’s sustainability provisions , NEC’s Option X29 and FIDIC’s Climate Change Charter. The Report also highlights high costs or low availability of low carbon materials and skill shortages as challenges.

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UK Construction Blog

MARCH 26, 2024

The post Read the Latest News on a Massive Retrofitting, the Building Sector Welcomes Youth, Marshals Profits Plummet as Construction Slows, and a Construction AI That is Speeding Up and Communicating appeared first on UK Construction Blog. By 2050, 80% of buildings will still be in service. Technical issues arise with retrofitting.

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Building Radar

JANUARY 14, 2020

Building planning: digital for optimized workflow 2. IoT: building with wireless intelligence 5. Mega-trend in the construction industry: the 3D-printed building 11. Puzzle on the construction site: modular building with prefabrication in factories 14. Sustainability: Building becomes greener 15.

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Stok

AUGUST 31, 2022

on the path to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40% below 2005 levels by 2030. per square foot, as well as new eligibility for Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) to access deductions $1B for grants helping state and local governments adopt and implement building energy codes, split into $330M for meeting 2021 IECC or ANSI/ASHRAE/IED 90.1-2019

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Levelset

JUNE 21, 2022

Also, the Air Conditioning Contractors of America estimate 13% job growth by 2030, outpacing the average across all industries. But your costs keep adding up, and you need cash on hand to continue expanding your workforce, buying materials, and taking on new jobs. Build an excellent and easy to use website.

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Stok

MARCH 23, 2023

Both the SEC and CSRD, as well as regulation in other jurisdictions and reporting standards developed by organizations such as the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), align closely with the reporting recommendations developed by the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosure (TCFD).

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UK Construction Blog

JULY 9, 2024

The post Uncover the Latest News on UK Construction Expansion and Accessible Building appeared first on UK Construction Blog. Rebounding depends on elections, high material costs, developing foreign trade agreements, and restrictive migration policy. Note: High material costs can hinder new project viability. of GDP as of May.

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Stok

JULY 20, 2021

The graphic below shows embodied carbon hot spots in office building projects, of which nearly 40% also impact the building’s operational carbon, including envelope, HVAC, and equipment. Typical office building’s embodied carbon, showing linkage to operational carbon. We can stretch this concept out to entire buildings too.

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Construction Daily News

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

On top of that, US Space Command has partnered with the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs to increase workforce and new expansion building. concrete building industry. They recommend 3–4 operators for printing: printer, materials, materials operator helper, and hands-on helper. A gantry followed.

Renewable Energy Systems 52

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CCR Magazine

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Henry, a Carlisle Company, North America’s leader in building envelope products and solutions, is excited to announce the launch of Blueskin VPTech, an innovative new product for residential construction that delivers energy efficiency and labor savings in one integrated solution.

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CCR Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2023

data center market, but estimates see total investment value between $400 billion and $600 billion by 2030. Mostly in obscure locations, these and other large organizations are building out massive facilities usually defined as exceeding 5,000 servers and 100,000 square feet of space, with the number of servers running into the millions.

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