Value engineered ? Space control to Major John (Apologies to David Bowie) “As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my...

New build snagging I think that I must have been living a sheltered existence. We all know that there is a massive skill shortage in the...

The UK construction industry has received more reports and targets than most other sectors. In 2013, the UK government released...

Rightly or wrongly the assumption behind the introduction of the PFI was that the private sector is better at managing risk and...

The RICS Still no news from the RICS about the changes in pathways and entry requirement revisions flagged up by the institution last...

Hitting the buffers Despite the government’s stated ambition to 'build baby build' they seem to be putting so many obstacles in the way...

Moths around a light It’s been quite a few weeks for Justin Sullivan, the newly elected president of the RICS. As discussed in the last...

Operational carbon The construction industry world wide is facing mounting pressure to carry out a whole life carbon assessment (WLCA)...

Construction and the Building Safety Regulator have been going head to head during the past few weeks over the time taken to approve HRB.

In a recent podcast on duncancartlidgeonline I mentioned that the Building Safety Regulator was refusing to sign off higher risk...

Golden thread The concept of a golden thread, or digital golden thread, of information for buildings was initially recommended by Dame...

Corruption free 2025 ? In December’s episode of the www.duncancartlidgeonlinepodcast I touched on the infamous Poulson corruption case...

Festive hospitality

There have been hints this week that billions of pounds of government borrowing could be spent on new infrastructure projects because of...

The government will change its self-imposed debt rules in order to free up billions for infrastructure spending, the chancellor has told...

The management of the RICS and the relationship that the professional body has with the members goes from bad to worse. It’s as if they...

Can there be any other industry that has generated so many reports? It's 30 years since Sir Michael Latham published his report on the UK...

In both ISG and Carillion’s cases they had no choice but to keep on taking on contracts with very thin or even negative margins to...

Is UK construction broken? Sir Michael Latham thought so.  30 years ago, Sir Michael Latham published his final report on the UK...

The construction acts were supposed to right a lot of the poor practice in the construction industry, particularly relating to getting...