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This week's Notes include information on the Construction Market Report on the UK Healthcare Sector, the Paris Climate Agreement and the CLC Report on Innovation Workstream. Read the Notes here.

FIS members are invited to get involved in the Architects Hub at London Build. This free to attend event is taking place at Olympia, London on 26 and 27 October. Come along for the opportunity to network with thousands of architects, contractors and developers; the...

We would like to understand what CPDs are offered by our members and develop a process to help promote them. Therefore could members let us know of any CPD presentations that you offer to architects or others in the construction sector? Please complete the form here...

You are invited to the Plasterboard Waste Workshop on Monday 21 November from 10.30am to 12.30pm at the Saint Gobain Innovation Centre in London. The workshop is free to attend but bookings will be on a first-come, first-served basis. Working with the Plasterboard...

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...