Long reads

With the Interserve years behind it, Tilbury Douglas has transformed into a smaller, focused and more flexible company under the leadership of chief executive and former rugby player Craig Tatton

Ensuring transparency across the supply chain, digital product passports are commonplace in the textiles and electronics worlds – and now they’re coming to construction

Average pay for executives at the UK’s top construction firms is rising, but some are doing better than others

Government efforts to tackle late payment across all industries are nothing new. But the current administration appears determined to get to grips with this most thorny of issues. A consultation was launched this summer, as Labour promised the “toughest late payment laws in the G7” to “hold larger firms to…

325 The number of construction firms that went bust in June, according to the government’s Insolvency Service. This was down 18.5 per cent on May’s 385 and a 19 per cent fall year on year. But Kelly Boorman, head of construction at consultancy RSM UK, said: “As construction activity ramps…

Fans are increasingly demanding that stadiums score environmental goals, but are the clubs playing ball?

Return on capital employed is becoming a popular measure of performance in the construction sector. But what are its limitations?

Prudent management rather than swashbuckling adventurism lies behind improvement in key metrics among the top 100 construction firms

Disabled people could help plug construction’s increasing skills gap. But what is the industry doing to attract and retain them? By Kristina Smith

When ISG broke, so did the businesses that trusted it. A year on, CN examines the wreckage