A leading industry advocate has called for a national retrofit body to be established after ‘pitiful’ figures showed the UK has less than 2 per cent of the skilled workers it needs for a residential energy-efficiency drive.

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The London-based Irish architect and educator told a packed room at RIBA’s headquarters on Thursday 13 October that working in the sector ‘can often be a punishing process’. 

McLaughlin also spoke out against an ‘adversarial culture in construction’ and said …

The IOC was represented at this 1-day conference by Alan Creasey FIOC. Areas looked at and discussed were: 

• Update on the new Government’s plans for Construction training

• BACH’s Campaign for realistic funding and salaries for Construction training
•  Apprenticeships, T-Levels and

The Carpenters’ Line: Woodworking Heritage in Hida Takayama explores Hida’s legacy of skill and innovation through a series of installations focusing on woodworking techniques and materials, technology and innovation, products (including Hida-shunkei lacquerware and intricate kumiko latticework) and the people …

Material scientists Sam Draper and Barney Shanks landed the €100,000 2022 Obel Award with their ‘simple way’ to capture carbon from industrial production processes and create an end product that can eliminate the CO₂ footprint of concrete.

The prototype technology, …