Climate resilience is beginning to turn into a construction market in its own right. The strongest evidence is no longer found in climate strategies but in capital programmes for flood defences, reservoirs, drainage, rail earthworks, wastewater capacity and public-estate upgrades that are already funded, being procured or moving through construction. The scale of the requirement is considerab…
UK construction should return to growth in 2027, but not evenly. The forecasts describe a split market, with regulated infrastructure, energy, water and some public programmes moving ahead while private housing and parts of commercial construction stay held back by finance costs, viability and weak demand. The Construction Products Association's Summer 2026 forecast has total output fall…
The Building Safety Regulator (BSR) is recruiting legally qualified chairs, registered building inspectors and lay members for the disciplinary panels that decide misconduct cases against building control professionals in England and Wales. Applications close at 11.59pm on Sunday 15 November, according to BSR's recruitment announcement . Each three-person panel combines a legal chair, a t…
SEGRO expects to sign a pre-let with a major hyperscaler "in the coming months" for its first fully fitted data centre, the joint venture with Pure Data Centres Group at Premier Park in Park Royal, west London. The update came in the company's nine-month trading statement published on 21 October 2026 , which said negotiations were ongoing and that timing remained in line with its pr…
