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    Construction buoyant but strong headwinds coming – CPA

    Construction activity is set for a dramatic slowing in growth with further uncertainty ahead as global issues start to affect the UK market, according to the latest quarterly forecast from the Construction Products Association. The...

    Construction back to pre-lockdown levels – Barbour

    Construction activity returned to pre-lockdown levels last month, with contract awards increasing by 58% over March to £9.1billion – a level of activity last seen in January 2020, according to the latest edition of...

    Construction bouncing back from lockdown but no-deal Brexit threat still looms – CPA

    Strong demand for new private housing and repair & maintenance looks set to mitigate the historic falls in construction growth during lockdown but the industry is not out of the woods yet and faces...

    RMI growth ‘propping up’ construction amid continuing decline in new work

    Repair, Maintenance and Improvement (RMI) is continuing to show growth offsetting similar negative figures in new work around the industry, according to the latest ONS figures. While RMI put on 2.1% in November and 3.8%...

    Supply problems fading fast but house building continues to decline – S&P

    Materials supply problems throughout the industry showed the strongest improvement since 2009, according to the latest purchasing managers reports from S&P Global. At the same time however, house building showed the steepest decline for...

    Industry backs relaxation of anti-pollution building laws

    Controversial plans to boost homebuilding by relaxing ‘defective EU laws’ on water pollution have been broadly welcomed by the industry despite the widespread outcry by environmental groups. Housing secretary Michael Gove says the legacy laws...

    Growth forecast soon but not just yet – CPA

    Construction output is forecast to fall by 2.1% this year but will turn around to rise by 2.0% in next year, according to the Winter Forecast published this week by the Construction Products Association. “Private...

    Housebuilding declining, commercial growing, supply issues normalising – S&P

    Mixed fortunes are highlighted in the latest S&P Global construction survey, with house building in deep decline while commercial grows, against a background that sees earlier serious supply problems continuing to normalise. Improving supply issues,...

    FMB calls for green retrofit plan to offset construction issues

    The government needs to come up with a National Retrofit Strategy to offset the construction issues including growing unemployment, according to the Federation of Master Builders. Chief Executive Brian Berry said such a strategy would...

    Merchants see like-for-like Q2 sales nearing 15% up

    Total value of sales from Britain’s builders’ merchants grew by 7.6% in April to June over Q1 but four fewer trading days in the period took like-for-like sales to +14.8%, according to the latest...