Nationwide Construction Recruitment Blog

The Skills for a Sustainable Skyline Taskforce will meet for the first time today in a bid to avert a construction labour crisis across central London.

The industry’s special taskforce monitoring materials supply and prices is warning that recruitment, retention and related wage inflation is set to overtake material supply as the industry’s biggest headache next year

The Building Safety Act 2022 comes into force today to improve regulation across the construction industry five years after the Grenfell disaster.

Gloucestershire County Council is retendering its planned major scheme to upgrade junction 10 of the M5 to the west of Cheltenham.

Furious Marks and Spencer’s bosses have attacked Michael Gove for “political grandstanding” after the Housing Secretary called-in the retailer’s plans to demolish and rebuild its flagship store.

A surge in construction companies defaulting on covid loans could signal a wave of future business failures.

England’s largest councils have warned they will be forced to delay repairs to local roads and infrastructure as spiralling inflation adds over £1.5bn to their costs.

Leading cost consultant Arcadis is warning the spectre of stagflation could hit construction as soaring materials inflation and risk allowances in tenders delay project pipelines.

At least a quarter of a million additional construction workers will be needed by 2026 to meet growing demand in the industry according to the latest Construction Skills Network report.

Construction output slipped by 0.4% in April, marking the first decline since October, as fears about the wider economy cooled business confidence.