2021 Budget: What should be be focusing on? Recent events have shown the need for long term and joined up planning. The Coronavirus pandemic has, in a sense, drawn a veil back to reveal the need for a prosperous, well-functioning society. More than this, everything is connected. Short term or narrow thinking creates unintended consequences. … Read more
Damon Schunmann, Strategic Consultant at Barbour ABI interviewed Chris Davies, joint MD at DRS Bond Management. As an organisation that specialises in broking contract guarantee bonds as an alternative to bank guarantees, it typically takes a deep dive into its clients’ finances before making a decision on providing a bond arrangement. Carried out across multiple … Read more
The Future Of The Construction Products Industry On February 9th 2021, leaders from the construction products sector congregated on Zoom for an animated discussion on critical issues facing the industry. Expertly chaired by Barbour ABI Strategic Consultant, Damon Schunmann, panelists represented a cross-section of leading sector organisations including: Bill Hewlett – Technical Director – British … Read more
“Recreative Construction” is a new, exclusive and free-to-access series of articles written by experienced construction industry commentator Brian Green for Barbour ABI and supported by the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB). Recreative Construction will be examining the challenges facing the construction community and diving into how you can work towards building a better future for … Read more
So why is Barbour ABI creating an editorial calendar? Here, we get a unique, unparalleled view of the construction universe in the UK. We know of every project, and our research team – the largest UK-based team in the industry – track it meticulously and add tonnes of value as we go. We get to know … Read more
In part one of our ‘intelligent site’ feature, we took a look at some of the digital construction techniques and methodologies that are revolutionising project delivery. Here in part two we present a case study of a live project where Kier is bringing together several strands of technology for the MoJ at a site in … Read more
While digital construction techniques is revolutionising project delivery, the benefits realised from a technology roll-out are fundamentally tied to staff buy-in and adoption. This is nevermore the case when it requires operatives to embed new ways of working into their daily working lives. In this first of two articles, we take a look at examples … Read more
At the start of the year, nobody could have predicted how widespread impact of Covid-19 would be, especially within the construction industry. With no sort of contingency plans in place for this kind of event, the industry was hit hard by site closures, furloughs and redundancies and even some companies calling in the administrators. We … Read more
The residential sector contract awards in 2019 were valued at £23.0 billion an increase of 0.9% on 2018. This follows on from 7.4% decrease in 2018. Following good growth in contract awards values between 2015 and 2017, there appears to have been some levelling off in 2018 and 2019. Key to this has been the … Read more
The latest data release from the ONS indicates that in the three months to November 2019 construction output increased by 1.1% on the previous three-month period. Key to this growth was a 1.6% increase in new work with repair and maintenance reporting a smaller 0.2% increase. Comparison with the three-month period ending November 2018 shows … Read more
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