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FIS members can benefit from a £200 saving when using The People's Pension for automatic enrolment, provided by B&CE Financial Services. When members sign-up, the one-off charge will be reduced from £500 + VAT to £300 + VAT by using the following code:...

CPA attended the Standards Committee for Measuring and Reporting Sustainability Performance, tracking the developments within ISO and European (CEN) standards on Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) and associated building level standards. Read more in this week's...

The CPA’s latest Construction Trade Survey paints a mixed picture for Quarter 3, but optimism improves for the year ahead. The key drivers of construction growth over the past year have widened beyond housing to infrastructure, commercial and industrial, which has...

October’s edition of the Joint Taxation Committee’s Newsline provides essential reading on the 'Making Tax Digital' proposals that HMRC are consulting on at the moment. With the promise of the eventual abolition of the tax return, companies will need to look at...

A summary of September's data highlighted an upturn in business activity across the UK construction sector for the first time since May, primarily driven by a recovery in residential building. New orders also rebounded during September, which ended a four-month period...

There will be a two-day industry meeting and networking event on 7 & 8 November at the Marriott Grosvenor Square Hotel, Mayfair. With build, design, fit-out and maintenance projects in the hotel, hospitality, leisure, retail and healthcare sectors this is an...

The Construction Leadership Council’s Innovation in buildings workstream aims to embed new approaches to all phases of the construction process for buildings, utilising work already in progress such as the Digital Built Britain strategy and Modern Methods of...

HMRC has added new videos to its YouTube channel, informing new employers what they need to do – and how to do it. Employers can watch the five short videos in order, or go straight to the one they need the most. New employers - the basics (5:09) When and how to pay...

Following the successful completion of the trial programme recommended by the Review of Scottish Public Sector Procurement in Construction, the Scottish Government is introducing project bank accounts on public work projects to protect subcontractors from insolvency...