UK Construction Blog

JULY 30, 2025

The post Top BIM Trends Driving Change in AEC Design & Construction appeared first on UK Construction Blog. Introduction Before we move forward on the topic and get into technicalities, let’s take a moment to reflect on how the construction industry has evolved over the past decade. From paper-driven processes to CAD drawings, BIM has opened up a completely new dimension for building engineering consultants to plan, design, and build faster and better.

Building Information Modeling (BIM)

Construction Enquirer

JULY 29, 2025

Huge concrete components which will form a new £20m railway bridge and roundabout in Stockport are now travelling over the Irish sea ready for the project’s main construction phase this weekend. Network Rail and engineers from main contractor Murphy are gearing up for a meticulously planned three-week window during which Greek Street bridge is dismantled and rebuilt from this Saturday.

Site Planning

iField Smart

JULY 25, 2025

Reading Time: 3 minutes In a quick and quality-driven world of construction, maintaining precise and prompt field reports is crucial for the success of a project. From monitoring equipment and labor to documenting weather patterns and progress feedback, daily construction logs are key deliverables used for accountability, communication, and documentation.

Communication

Develop Coaching

JULY 25, 2025

The Hidden Cost of Poor Tendering Construction tendering should lead to healthy profit, but for many UK builders it does the opposite. Deadlines slip. Estimates get rushed. Entire bids fail on small technical errors before price is even checked. Hours of effort vanish, and firms feel forced to slash margins just to stay afloat. If your team works flat out yet wins fewer than half its tenders, the problem runs deeper than price.

Building Code Compliance

Speaker: Dylan Secrest, Founder of Alamo Innovation and Construction Digital Transformation Consultant

Construction payment workflows are notoriously complex when you consider juggling multiple stakeholders, compliance requirements, and evolving project scopes. Delays in approvals or misaligned data between budgets, lien waivers, and pay applications can grind progress to a halt. The good news? It doesn't have to be this way! Join expert Dylan Secrest to discover how leading contractors are turning payment chaos into clarity using digital workflows, integrated systems, and automation strategies.

Approvals

Construction Placements

JULY 30, 2025

5 Proven Construction Weatherproofing Strategies for U.S. Building Projects When extreme weather strikes your construction project, will your building envelope hold up? With water damage accounting for 20-25% of all insurance claims and construction weatherproofing failures responsible for up to 80% of construction-related lawsuits, choosing the right protection strategy isn't just important—it's critical for your project's success.

Zoning

Construction Enquirer

JULY 31, 2025

Retentions could be banned under government plans to crackdown on late payment. Included in a suite of proposed legislation to improve conditions for small and medium-sized businesses were “options to reform or ban cash retentions in construction contracts.” The move was hailed by industry campaigners. Rob Driscoll, ECA Director of Legal & Business, said: “Government’s engagement on how to reform retentions marks a seminal once-in-a-generation moment for the industry to com

Contracts

Construction Daily News

JULY 30, 2025

Walk any construction site today and you’ll see the same thing: gray hair under hard hats, empty job postings on trailer doors, and projects running months behind schedule. The industry needs 501,000 additional workers beyond normal hiring to meet 2024 demand. Most companies compete for the same shrinking talent pool. Taylor Morrison took a different approach: build workers from scratch.

Schedule Management

Buildern

JULY 30, 2025

Construction businesses today aren’t what they used to be a couple of years ago. The operational side of building has grown increasingly complex with all the tight margins , shifting timelines, and subcontractor coordination. And as your projects get bigger or more frequent, keeping everything in sync becomes harder with every passing job. Our guide is for those trying to make that part easier.

Schedule Management

Job Order Contracting

JULY 28, 2025

Collaborative Project Delivery (Integrated Project Delivery and Collaborative Job Order Contracting) both involve Government Construction Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) Non-traditional Program-centric versus Project-centric Administration Robust Focus Upon Preconstruction – Early and ongoing team collaboration (owner, design/builder, planning/procurement/project delivery) Improved Design Quality – Constructability Objective, verifiable, current, standardized, local market granular cost data

Quality Control

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Construction Equipment

iField Smart

JULY 31, 2025

Reading Time: 4 minutes Introduction. Cost overruns are frequent and costly hurdles in modern construction projects. They impact various areas, including stakeholder relationships, profit limits, and a firm’s reputation. With so many participants, condensed timelines, changing material costs, and fluctuating job site conditions, keeping a project within planned costs can be difficult.

Project Management

Construction Enquirer

JULY 28, 2025

Fierce competition for electricity connections is creating serious headaches for developers, with grid delays now on par with planning as a top risk to project delivery. Turner & Townsend’s latest tender price forecast warns that access to power has become a key battleground for construction, with demand surging and infrastructure projects facing long delays in securing connections.

Infrastructure Development

Develop Coaching

JULY 25, 2025

A Race You Don’t Want to Win Winning construction contracts can feel like a race to the bottom on price. You’re not the only one who thinks so. Tender lists across the UK are crowded and profit margins are thin, so many builders still assume the lowest bid always wins. Yet records in The Gazette show that slashing prices often ends in losses and sleepless nights.

Contracts

Buildern

JULY 28, 2025

Running a construction business means navigating constant change. Budgets shift, material prices rise, clients request last-minute revisions, and schedules rarely stay on track. Even with solid estimates and a reliable crew, profits can disappear quickly without effective construction financial management. Some of the most common financial issues as construction budgeting mistakes or inaccurate labor estimates, tend to surface when teams rely on disconnected tools.

Budgeting

Speaker: Dylan Secrest

Construction projects are high-stakes operations where even minor inefficiencies can lead to costly delays, safety concerns, and budget overruns. Managing risk in construction has always been a challenge, but as projects grow in complexity, traditional methods no longer cut it. Enter Digital Transformation - a game changer approach that replaces inefficiency with AI-powered analytics, real-time monitoring, and automated workflows to proactively manage risk.

Construction Management

Civil + Structural Engineer

JULY 30, 2025

On a dreary afternoon at a coastal airfield, a jet veers off-center. The crew recovers, but not before clipping a lighting mast. The aircraft stays upright. The mast, crucially, does not. This isn’t luck, it’s deliberate. Built to collapse cleanly on impact, the mast reduces risk.

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JULY 30, 2025

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Concrete Pouring

Construction Enquirer

JULY 29, 2025

A bumper line-up of 39 firms has landed spots on the London Construction Programme’s new £3bn Major Works Education Framework. The five-year deal will see work procured across eight specialist lots, covering new builds, retrofits, MMC projects, and fire safety upgrades for schools in London and the South East. Top names among the winners include Galliford Try, Graham, Equans, Reds10, Baxall, and Mulalley.

Modular Construction

UK Construction Blog

JULY 30, 2025

The post The Hidden Complexity of Coordinating Trades in Modern Home Renovations appeared first on UK Construction Blog. Modern home renovations rarely involve just one trade. What starts as replacing a few windows often expands into adjusting frames, modifying internal walls, or updating surrounding finishes. This interconnected nature of home improvement work means success depends not just on individual craftsmanship, but on how well different specialists coordinate their efforts.

Electrical Wiring Installation

Speaker: Abdi Ali, Sr. Lease Accounting Consultant

Join this insightful webinar with industry expert Abdi Ali, who will discuss the challenges that can arise from managing lease accounting with spreadsheets! He will share real-world examples of errors, compliance issues, and risks that may be present within your spreadsheets. Learn how these tools, while useful, can sometimes lead to inefficiencies that affect your time, resources, and peace of mind.

Risk Management

Buildern

JULY 31, 2025

Who is who in a construction company? Since construction is one of the most complex industries, the structure of a general contractor firm can be different. The workflow of a general contractor involves tight deadlines, strict budgets, and subcontractor coordination. With so many things to handle, having a structured management system and a clear construction plan is essential.

Project Management

Civil + Structural Engineer

JULY 30, 2025

Pix4D, a global leader in photogrammetry and geospatial software solutions, and SPH Engineering’s UgCS, a trusted provider of advanced drone mission planning software, have announced a new strategic partnership. This collaboration aims to combine precise mission planning with high-end photogrammetry processing. The agreement reinforces both companies’ commitment to delivering robust, integrated tools for drone professionals.

Collaboration

Construction Placements

JULY 29, 2025

Underpinning in Construction: Definition, Methods, and Importance Discover everything about underpinning in construction - the critical process of strengthening existing building foundations. This comprehensive guide covers when underpinning is necessary, different methods like mass concrete and mini-pile systems, step-by-step processes, warning signs, costs, and safety considerations.

Foundation Systems

Construction Enquirer

JULY 30, 2025

The government’s flagship Levelling Up Fund is facing serious delivery delays, with nearly all projects running behind schedule and costs spiralling due to inflation and underdeveloped bids. A major evaluation of the £4.8bn programme has lifted the lid on the challenges facing local authorities trying to deliver regeneration, transport and cultural schemes backed by the fund.

Lifts

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UK Construction Blog

JULY 28, 2025

The post Crisis-Proofing Your Supply Chain: Procurement’s Role in Business Continuity and Resilience appeared first on UK Construction Blog. Geopolitical stand-offs, factory fires, and sudden port closures have pushed supply-chain continuity from a back-office concern to a board-level priority. Executives now ask procurement teams to guarantee revenue flow under conditions that shift by the hour.

Building Resilience

Construction Dive

JULY 30, 2025

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Building Optimization

Construction News

JULY 31, 2025

Balfour Beatty has invested £7.2m in Microsoft 365 Copilot as part of its digital transformation strategy, marking one of the UK construction industry’s largest known commitments to artificial intelligence. The four-year partnership will see the technology embedded across Balfour Beatty’s internal Microsoft 365 systems, allowing… The post Balfour Beatty unveils £7.2m AI investment with Microsoft appeared first on Construction News.

Construction Specifier

JULY 29, 2025

The green construction market is projected to reach $780 billion by 2032. Photo courtesy Pixabay; courtesy pexels.com According to Coherent Market Insights , the green construction market is projected to reach $780 billion by 2032. The sustainable building materials segment is set to be valued at $15 billion by product type. This is due to the increasing adoption of eco-friendly construction materials and the growing demand for energy-efficient and sustainable buildings.

Green Building

Speaker: Claire Grosjean, Global Finance & Operations Executive

Finance teams are drowning in data—but is it actually helping them spend smarter? Without the right approach, excess spending, inefficiencies, and missed opportunities continue to drain profitability. While analytics offers powerful insights, financial intelligence requires more than just numbers—it takes the right blend of automation, strategy, and human expertise.

Risk Management

Construction Enquirer

JULY 29, 2025

Taylor Wimpey has taken a massive £222m hit to cover legacy fire safety defects plunging the house builder into a first-half pre-tax loss of £92m. The increased provision comes after a fresh wave of intrusive surveys uncovered widespread issues with cavity barriers hidden behind brickwork and render. The full scale of the problems had not been picked up in earlier surface-level checks.

Building Materials

UK Construction Blog

JULY 30, 2025

The post How Home Renovations Are Meeting the Demand for Urban Space appeared first on UK Construction Blog. The demand for living space in UK cities is at an all-time high. A recent report from the Office for National Statistics highlights that a mere 9% of local authorities have homes considered affordable , a stark contrast to the 88% recorded in 1997.

Roofing Systems

Construction Dive

JULY 28, 2025

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Heavy Equipment Manufacturing

New Civil Engineer

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Storm Darragh has caused a significant amount of visible damage to a solar farm which was commissioned this year on the Welsh Isle of Anglesey. The post Newly commissioned solar farm on Isle of Anglesey significantly damaged by Storm Darragh appeared first on New Civil Engineer.

Engineering