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£39bn for affordable housing offers once-in-a-generation opportunity to address social housing challenge

|Date: 16 June, 2025

£39bn for affordable housing offers once-in-a-generation opportunity to address social housing challenge

Last week Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced £39bn in the Spending Review for affordable housing — a much ...

Last week Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced £39bn in the Spending Review for affordable housing — a much needed financial boost which has been described as a 'historic and ground-breaking settlement' ...

16 June, 2025
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Pausing housebuilding could counter loss of social homes and associated costs

|Date: 20 May, 2025

Pausing housebuilding could counter loss of social homes and associated costs

Halting the building of new homes could help to address the dramatic decrease in the number and share of ...

Halting the building of new homes could help to address the dramatic decrease in the number and share of social homes, by reallocating resources to upkeep the existing housing stock and preventing its ...

20 May, 2025
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Survey shows local authority and housing association procurement teams are undertrained, understaffed and under pressure

|Date: 12 May, 2025

Survey shows local authority and housing association procurement teams are undertrained, understaffed and under pressure

A survey of procurement staff working in local authorities and housing associations has found that 47% fe ...

A survey of procurement staff working in local authorities and housing associations has found that 47% feel inadequately resourced and 42% feel insufficiently trained on new public procurement regulat ...

12 May, 2025
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Mapping the future of timber in construction

|Date: 13 June, 2024

Mapping the future of timber in construction

LABM Editor Claire Clutten speaks to Andrew Carpenter, Chief Executive of the Structural Timber Associati ...

LABM Editor Claire Clutten speaks to Andrew Carpenter, Chief Executive of the Structural Timber Association, Andrew Orriss, Chief Operating Officer at the STA and Alex Goodfellow, CEO of Donaldson Off ...

13 June, 2024
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Making sustainable paint choices

|Date: 7 June, 2024

Making sustainable paint choices

Against the backdrop of the UK Government's ambitious 2050 Net Zero targets, the concept of the 'green pr ...

Against the backdrop of the UK Government's ambitious 2050 Net Zero targets, the concept of the 'green premium' associated with sustainable buildings is gaining significant momentum. Now more than eve ...

7 June, 2024
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Housing on the agenda

|Date: 29 May, 2024

Housing on the agenda

Europe's largest housing festival returns to Manchester this June with a packed programme of events, conf ...

Europe's largest housing festival returns to Manchester this June with a packed programme of events, conference sessions, learning, debate and networking opportunities for key stakeholders in the sect ...

29 May, 2024
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UK housing net zero opportunities and challenges

|Date: 24 May, 2024

UK housing net zero opportunities and challenges

Mears Group has launched its first Decarbonisation Report, which lays out the scale of the opportunity an ...

Mears Group has launched its first Decarbonisation Report, which lays out the scale of the opportunity and challenge facing the housing sector as it works towards reaching the UK's net zero targets. B ...

24 May, 2024
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KEIM’s eco friendly masonry paints meet the highest fire resistant classification

|Date: 9 May, 2024

KEIM’s eco friendly masonry paints meet the highest fire resistant classification

KEIM Mineral Paints is pleased to share that its silicate paints are fire resistant to the highest Eurono ...

KEIM Mineral Paints is pleased to share that its silicate paints are fire resistant to the highest Euronorm classification (EN13501-1), ideal for specifiers, contractors, housing associations and coun ...

9 May, 2024
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ZED PODS receives King’s Award for Enterprise

|Date: 8 May, 2024

ZED PODS receives King’s Award for Enterprise

ZED PODS has been honoured with a King’s Award for Enterprise for Sustainable Development. ZED PODS is on ...

ZED PODS has been honoured with a King’s Award for Enterprise for Sustainable Development. ZED PODS is one of 252 organisations nationally to be recognised with a prestigious King’s Award for Enterpri ...

8 May, 2024
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Aliva UK | Leading role for EWI

|Date: 3 May, 2024

Aliva UK | Leading role for EWI

Ben Edmondson, Technical Director at façades specialist Aliva UK, comments on external wall insulation’s ...

Ben Edmondson, Technical Director at façades specialist Aliva UK, comments on external wall insulation’s pivotal role in the UK retrofit agenda. External wall insulation systems are at the forefront o ...

3 May, 2024
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