On day 1 of UK Construction Week London, we attended the insightful ‘workforce inclusion’ session on the Barbour ABI Main Stage. Co-chaired by Ele George, Founder of Elevate, and Guy Harris, Director of AccessiblePRS, the session started by asking the audience four eye opening questions. Guy asked everyone to stand up and when they answered … Read more
Kate Perrin, Barbour ABI Marketing Director, will be chairing alongside Lloyd Collings (The Environment Bank), and Sarah Stone (BWB Consulting) about safeguarding biodiversity across the UK construction landscape. Read Kate’s insights on the seminar below, and what we can expect: “We are all aware that land use and construction practices can contribute to the removal … Read more
Introducing the new Barbour ABI: it’s more than a rebrand, it’s our pledge to provide the best for the built environment. Barbour ABI has always stood for high-quality project information; supporting construction businesses to improve their business development efforts. Today we offer our extensive client base so much more than that. Our mission has never … Read more
At last week’s BiKBBI Annual Conference the theme of the day was ostensibly Collaboration. Whilst there was a distinct collaborative feeling between the many KBB manufacturers and installers present, the de facto theme became the elephant that sits amongst the entire construction industry: The ageing and rapidly depleting workforce that is not even close to being replaced … Read more
Aldi and Lidl have a combined 17% market share in 2023, but plan to open 51% of all UK grocery stores in 2024 Much is made of the fantastic data-sets from Nielsen and Kantar that describe current retail share performance, and rightly so, they are full of insights, but they describe what has happened rather … Read more
Today, the keenly awaited National Infrastructure and Construction Pipeline 2023 Smart Map was released by the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) in partnership with Barbour ABI. The map sets out planned procurements, planned and projects investment, and workforce requirements in construction and infrastructure over the next decade. Our new interactive map can provide you with … Read more
Tom Reynolds, Chief Executive of the Bathroom Manufacturers Association, details some of the priorities and challenges in embracing sustainable actions within the bathroom space Sustainability is a guiding priority for the Bathroom Manufacturers Association (BMA), evident in our operations, member activities, our annual Sustainability Awards and regular Sustainability Forums. Our recent Sustainability Forum took place … Read more
The recent Construction Index article “Data gatherers differ in their diagnoses” appears to have got some key data points confused. What is clear is that firstly, there are a lot of statistics out there and secondly, construction is a very challenging beast to understand – not least when there are so many external factors at … Read more
2022 was a year that will be remembered for the end of Covid-19 restrictions, the conflict in Ukraine, the passing of the Queen, and a chaotic Summer and Autumn period for the UK Government, culminating in three different Prime Ministers. Some of these have had wider implications (although not solely responsible) on the UK economy, … Read more
For this month’s content calendar blog, we are looking to the future of the built environment. What does it look like? With massive advances possible in technology, materials, automation, relationships, processes, diversity and countless other facets, it is impossible to know exactly what the next industrial revolution may look like. Within this blog, we will … Read more
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