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The official website of the Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) - the leading skills certification scheme within the UK construction industry.

The top 100 construction projects of 2026 in the UK, including the top projects across all sectors, by total value of the project.

This page provides - United Kingdom Building Permits- actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Licensing construction in the UK - Designing Buildings - Share your construction industry knowledge. In May 2025 the Federation of Master Builders published an updated Licence to Build report; A model for licensing domestic building….

Construction News is the leading resource for UK construction industry news, contract wins, top contractors and clients, market intelligence and forecast and trend data.

Quarterly and annual time series data on the building of new housing in the UK, its constituent countries and English regions, including starts and completions.

Federal Davis-Bacon applies to projects with federal funding above a threshold; state "little Davis-Bacon" laws apply to state-funded projects with their own thresholds. The trap: rules apply to the work, not the contract — a privately funded portion of a project with any covered funding is subject to coverage on the whole.

"Substantial completion" is achieved when the owner can occupy the project for its intended use — not when a punch list is finished or a percentage is hit. The status starts warranty clocks, transfers risk of loss, and triggers retention release in most contracts. Disputes over whether SC has been achieved are common at month-end.

Foundation failures rarely originate at the slab; they originate in soil bearing capacity, drainage, or expansive-clay behavior that was either uninvestigated or not honored in the design. A geotechnical report that is older than the building's design or that did not sample at the actual building footprint is a red flag.