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If you ask ten specifiers how they’re protecting their steelwork this month, you’ll get twelve answers.

There is a certain type of person who will tell you that they can judge a steak’s done-ness by pressing it with a finger. They’ll jab at it like it owes them money, declare it not ready yet and go back to watching the football.

Our low carbon steel range has been renamed from Green Steel to VivaPure™, resulting in changes to PRM and SKU names and codes.

Carefully chronicled by the Court Historians of Siniat, with due reverence.

If something is left, buried under weight and pressure, for long enough, it becomes the subject of a unique, geological phenomenon. This is how fossils are made. Organic structures are petrified – locked into shape by time and the absence of air.

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Government penalties for housing delays could ripple through construction. Discover how policy shifts may affect infrastructure, materials, and the wider built environment—and what this could mean for a slow recovery in 2025.

If you’ve inherited design responsibility, this guide helps you navigate what comes next. Learn how to prove competence, get the right advice, and specify tested systems to meet Building Safety Act expectations.

Where Does Responsibility Live in Construction? A Journey Through Competence, Liability, and the Building Safety Act

You may’ve seen our crowns. Our op-eds. We certainly hope you’ve heard us shouting from the rooftops about our plant expansion.

This is not yet another story about tariffs. Not really. It’s a story about ripples. About tremors. Because what might appear a small tremor in one place, may become a landslide in another.

Passive fire protection is more than a construction material. It’s about the expertise, the design, the construction. It’s about competency.

Let’s not sugar-coat it: headlines are that the first quarter of 2025 has been pretty doom and gloom. It’s not set the world alight.

Growth is coming. That’s the manifesto of today’s spring statement, the first major financial update of the year, delivered by Chancellor Rachel Reeves.

Bright sun breaks the dawn on Spring Statement week. It’s joined by an announcement. Headlines for the construction industry to sink its teeth into. £

Construction stands at a crossroads. Completion of projects are at risk from a range of threats: , grappling with a growing skills shortage that threatens not just the completion of projects, but the very fabric of its future.

Every year since two-thousand-and-..something, it’s been a tradition for dictionary makers to nominate a word of the year.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, so says Andy Williams. Here in Bristol, we’re brimming with festive cheer. Think joy, think mince pies, think questionable Christmas jumpers.

It’s been Hard Times for construction. At times, it’s felt like there Ain’t No Sunshine. But we could be yet to see Glory Days – there may be hopeful chorus ahead.

Planning reforms have landed with a big splash. The focus of the recent announcement sits squarely on accelerating the planning process to meet ambitious housing targets.

Faster decisions, a more streamlined approval process, and increased access to land have all been promised in the Government’s new planning reforms.

Change has come to the built environment. Major change in safety. In construction standards. In performance of both the building itself and the materials it is made of.

Sustainability is no longer just a buzzword—it's a critical consideration in modern construction.

Key environmental data, in one key place – EPDs provide a central location for all sustainability related data. But do you know how to read one?

The construction industry has long since made a bad name for itself in all areas of sustainability. Although once synonymous with red diesel and landfill sites, an increased change of regulatory pace has demanded change from the top-down and pushed movement of sustainability initiatives.