The challenges facing the housing market are well documented; too many people are living in expensive, unsuitable, poor-quality homes.

The UK construction sector, working in collaboration with UK manufacturers of cement and concrete, has a strong track record of reducing emissions from concrete construction. But there are opportunities to accelerate the adoption of new low carbon concretes and reduce the carbon emissions of our built environment even further.

Eddie Tuttle, director of policy, external affairs and research at the Chartered Institute of Building, said:

Michael Gove has returned to Government, and the target of building 300,000 new homes per year by the mid-2020s has returned with him.

CIOB has today reacted to the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement and what it means for the built environment sector:

To mark Right to Build Day on 30 October, the National Custom and Self Build Association has published a letter calling for an end to unsuitable financial tests that act as a block to people signing their local self build Register.

Eddie Tuttle, Policy, Research and Public Affairs Director at CIOB, said:

With a low-carbon approach to construction, we can build the housing this country needs and accelerate decarbonisation in the process.

It is vital that the Department of Health and Social Care’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Plan understands the issues causing poor mental health in the construction industry.

From net negative carbon concrete to UK-grown timber and sustainable steel, every material must play their part to deliver a net zero built environment by 2050.

A Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) Fellow has been appointed as the new Co-Chair of The Construction Leadership Council (CLC).

• 3 in 5 of us would hire female plumbers, carpenters, electricians and builders to work in our homes


• Only 1% of tradespeople working in UK construction industry are female


• North American campaign group, Tradeswomen Building Bridges attend special event in Parliament to share secrets of their success

One of CIOB’s most popular guides, the Code of Practice for Project Management for the Built Environment, has now been updated and a sixth edition published.

With the Environmental Audit Committee publishing its blueprint for reducing carbon emissions in construction, there is the momentum to legislative towards a more sustainable built environment.

The Chartered Institute of Building’s first ever Safer Buildings UK event was held today [Thursday 26 May].

TIMBER has a central role to play in reducing carbon emissions in construction - and the UK will not meet its climate change targets without major changes in the building industry, an influential House of Commons committee has warned.