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Unfold Your Free Part L Guide

AluFoldDirect has launched a free 10-page guide to help customers navigate the updated Building Regulations: Part L,...

Getting On At Wickes

Checkatrade has can now offer its 50,000 members a 75% discount on Intuit QuickBooks business accounting software and...

Mental Health Is Still Challenging The Industry

A new DGCOS Mental Health Survey for the industry expands on the original 2022 investigation and shows some interesting...

Be Prepared – Five Top Tips For When Boom Times Return

Cornwall Group’s chair, Mark Mitchell, has given five tips on how to prepare your business for when the market...

2000 New Homes Green Lighted In London Borough

The green light has been given for the Joyce Avenue and Snell’s Park Estates to be transformed into a new...

Top Gear For Independent Network

Members of Veka’s Independent Network have enjoyed an awards event at the Belfry hotel hosted by special guest,...

Power To The People

The post-consumer glass recycling scheme developed by integral blinds manufacturer Morley Glass in conjunction with...

Happy New Year – Glenigan Forecasts A bright 2025

Glenigan, the construction insight firm, has released its widely anticipated UK Construction Industry Forecast 2024-2026...

Without Buyers Labour Can’t Get Britain Building

Unless Labour has a solution that enables buyers to afford to buy houses, therefore incentivising builders to build,...

Travis Plays First Gig With New Star Performer

Travis Perkins, the UK’s largest builders’ merchant, has announced the completion of the first home designed...

Ten Things To Know From The King's Speech

This year’s King’s Speech had ten key points. For this industry, the commitment to building homes and...

Time For Talk Is Over. Time For Talk Has Just Begun

Now we have a new government, does that mean a wand has been waved and we will see the brakes removed from the economy...

Installation Of The Month Is Back

Victorian Sliders is relaunching its Installation of the Month competition. Installers have been invited to submit...

Reeves Peeved At Timid Torries – Building Boom Promised

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has promised to get Britain building houses and has pointed a finger at her ‘timid’...

Skivers & Shirkers To Get Hard Labour

The Labour Party has often been seen as weak on the work shy but now skivers and shirkers will find a much harder party...

Come On England – Southgate The Saviour

Sternfenster’s Mike Parczuk reckons despite too many soundbites and a lack of real gumption in the Labour Party,...

A Chance To Prove Your Values

The BFRC has created a new U-value scheme for windows and doors to sit alongside its Energy Ratings Scheme. The move...

Thermal Efficiency – Honesty Is The Best Policy

Mark Frain, the national business development manager at WarmCore, has written passionately on the absolute need for...

Gwain Gains In Massive Thermoseal To Fenzi Deal

The spacer bar and window ancillaries group of Thermoseal companies, owned by Gwain Paterson, has been acquired by the...

Election Deadline – What Are The Opportunities?

Could the general election present a window of opportunity? Asks Greg Beachim of First Degree Systems, the fabricator...