Financial & Legal
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London’s draft spatial plan sets capacity for 558,000 new homes. Revised affordability thresholds, higher brownfield densities, and selective Green Belt development will shape the capital’s next construction cycle.
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Monumental has raised $32m to expand robotic bricklaying across markets. Its fleet exceeds 150 machines and already operates on live UK and European construction sites.
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Awaab’s Law will extend across seven additional housing hazard categories. Social landlords face fixed investigation, communication, safety-work, and repair deadlines from 30 November 2026.
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Barratt has recovered £38m from subcontractors over legacy building defects. Remediation expenditure is nevertheless forecast to rise sharply across the group’s historic development portfolio.
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Parliament has approved the next ECITB engineering construction levy order. Existing rates will raise an estimated £137.9m for training, qualifications, and workforce development.
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Laing O’Rourke has lifted profit while holding overall revenue lower. Improved project selection and execution supported stronger margins and a record £17.2bn order book.
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Germany has approved more flexible rules for building heating systems. The legislation removes the general 65% renewable threshold while retaining a long-term fuel transition.
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Hinkley Point C has appointed two independent decommissioning plan verifiers. Turner & Townsend and NUVIA will examine cost, risk, technical feasibility, and waste assumptions.
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Poor product data costs UK construction billions of pounds annually. Fragmented records are increasing rework, slowing procurement, and weakening control over substitutions and golden-thread information.
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Government confidence in cladding remediation delivery has fallen to Red. Regulatory delays, construction inflation, and mounting social-housing workloads are slowing progress across thousands of affected buildings.