Managing Cash Flow in Construction: How Business Credit Cards Can Help
Retentions, 60-day terms and material deposits all land before the valuation is paid. How contractors bridge the gap without borrowing against the business.
Guides and Features
North Texas Storm Response: Inside the Plano-Area Residential Roofing Cycle
What a hail season does to a residential roofing market, and how the inspection, insurance and repair cycle actually runs on the ground.
Collin County Construction Watch: McKinney's Post-Storm Residential Repair Cycle
Permits, adjusters, contractors and the order they arrive in after a storm front moves through a suburb.
Wer die Stadien baut und wer darauf werben darf
Stadium construction and the advertising that pays for it, from the German-speaking market. In German.
Industry News Archive
Industry unites for largest ever survey on skills shortages
Build UK and other leading industry trade bodies joined forces to build a picture of the occupations in greatest demand. The survey went to more than 20,000 companies nationwide and asked respondents to say which trades they struggle to recruit.
Holiday Dates 2019
The Construction Industry Joint Council announced the 2019 programme of public and annual holidays for England, Wales and Scotland, detailing annual holiday entitlement under the CIJC Working Rule Agreement until New Year 2020.
B&CE Occupational Health Scheme Update
Members heard from B&CE on the progress of an industry-wide occupational health scheme, with a reminder of how long the industry has been talking about one.
Tax Guidance for Members, November 2018
The Construction Industry Joint Taxation Committee's monthly guidance on the difficulties contractors face in keeping up with changes to taxation rules and regulations.
SmartCard Audit Demonstrates Value of Smart Technology
Results of the annual audit of industry skills cards, carried out across member construction sites on 3 October 2018 in partnership with CECA and CSCS.
Updated Training Standard
The Training Standard was updated to reflect CITB's role in mapping industry-agreed training, following the 2017 task group decision that health and safety training should be mapped against it.
The archive above is kept as a record of the trade-body news this site reported in 2018. Newer features sit under Guides.