
Installation Guides


30/05/2025
The long weekend and the short fuse
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.

30/05/2025
So, you've got design responsibility. What now?
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.

28/05/2025
A guide to design responsibility and liability
Where Does Responsibility Live in Construction? A Journey Through Competence, Liability, and the Building Safety Act

20/05/2025
An announcement from Siniat
You may’ve seen our crowns. Our op-eds. We certainly hope you’ve heard us shouting from the rooftops about our plant expansion.

16/05/2025
So long, and thanks for all the tariffs
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.

29/04/2025
True role of competency
Passive fire protection is more than a construction material. It’s about the expertise, the design, the construction. It’s about competency.

22/04/2025
Construction in motion
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.

27/03/2025
Buds of growth: contemplations on the Spring budget
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.

24/03/2025
Ambition alone is not enough - tackling the skills shortage
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. £

26/02/2025
The construction skills shortage is a call for transformation
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.

08/01/2025
And now, a word on 2025
Every year since two-thousand-and-..something, it’s been a tradition for dictionary makers to nominate a word of the year.

20/12/2024
All I Want for Christmas Is... Plasterboard?
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.

19/12/2024
Construction wrapped: 2024, in music
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.

12/12/2024
Building momentum: planning reforms and the road 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.

12/12/2024
What the planning reforms mean for construction, in real terms
Faster decisions, a more streamlined approval process, and increased access to land have all been promised in the Government’s new planning reforms.

17/10/2024
What is the golden thread in construction?
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.

08/10/2024
What is recycled content?
Sustainability is no longer just a buzzword—it's a critical consideration in modern construction.
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