Having the right budget for any construction project is vital. Without it, complications and obstacles can become even costlier for the companies in charge. Successful construction project budgets ensure buffers are allocated for setbacks, while also maximising profit.

For construction businesses, adopting a sustainable approach must start from the outset. What must you do to achieve sustainability within your construction organisation and projects?

As construction output is forecasted to drop by 3.9% in 2023, construction companies face a rocky road ahead. Many will be looking to make efficiencies across the board in order…

In any business, a silo mentality can be a problem. The term silo is used in business to refer to the corporate structure where groups of individuals doing a similar…

No two construction sites are the same. Hazards and risks must be identified and mitigated, with safe working practices understood and implemented by all site personnel. It’s vital that sites…

The past two years have been chaotic for the construction industry. From Brexit hampering supply chains to the COVID pandemic halting or severely impacting work across much of the industry,…

Quantity surveyors are increasingly using technology to help digitise their processes, create a single source of information throughout the project and make financial reporting easier at the project end. From…

The Grenfell Tower tragedy in June 2017 caused the avoidable loss of 72 lives. In its wake, the UK government vowed to introduce stricter and more robust laws that would…

  The Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) is an HMRC scheme to help manage contractor and subcontractor tax. It ensures that tax is deducted at source from payments to subcontractors where…

Modern, automated accounts payable (AP) systems are far smoother, more efficient and more environmentally friendly than traditional manual processes. The days of manual AP operations are numbered. Paper invoices are…