Built Environment: Construction Industry Information

Construction 2025 (July 2013) sets out a vision and a plan for long-term strategic action by government and industry to continue to work together to promote the success of the UK construction sector.

Government Construction Strategy 2016-2020 (March 2016) sets out the vision for central government construction.

Local Government Association's National Construction Category Strategy (January 2018) sets out the challenges facing local government in managing its local construction spend.

Construction Sector Deal (July 2018) reinforces the five foundations of the Industrial Strategy: ideas, people, infrastructure, the business environment and places and set out key commitments in each of these areas. The Sector Deal focuses on three strategic areas:

1. Digital techniques deployed at all phases of design will deliver better, more certain results during the construction and operation of buildings. 
2. Offsite manufacturing technologies will help to minimise the wastage, inefficiencies and delays that affect onsite construction, and enable production to happen in parallel with site preparation – speeding up construction and reducing disruption.
3. Whole life asset performance will shift focus from the costs of construction to the costs of a building across its life cycle, particularly its use of energy.

UK Research and Innovation's Transforming Construction programme - details of the £170million investment, matched by £250 million from industry, to create new construction processes and techniques. An Evaluation of the Transforming Construction programme was completed in February 2022.

Office for National Statistics

• Construction Industry: includes the monthly Construction Output in Great Britain; the quarterly New Orders in the Construction Industry; and the annual Construction Statistics Great Britain published every November. The monthly output figures feed in to the monthly estimates of GDP and are released on the same day.

RICS 

• RICS Global Construction Monitors include the quarterly UK Construction Monitor as well as the Global Construction Monitor and similar reports for Spain, USA and Canada.

Health and Safety Executive

• The Industry part of the Statistics section of the web site gives you the option to select Construction (SIC F) for details of work-related ill health and work-related injuries.

Construction Industry Training Board (CITB)

• Construction Industry Research Reports include an Industry Outlook to 2028; Careers in Construction 2024; a report on Migration and UK Construction looking at how and why construction was using migrant workers, the key occupations they were working in and how employers planned to adapt to the new migration regime; and Workforce Mobility and Skills in the UK Construction Sector, with reports on Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and reports for each of the regions, including the West Midlands.

Market analysis from consultancies

• Glenigan's Market Analysis provides an annual Construction Industry Forecast, league tables of the top 50 contractors and clients and the top 20 architects, quantity surveyors and consulting engineers, a review, which is a monthly compendium of UK construction performance and activity and CN Intelligence - a partnership between Construction News and Glenigan - that brings you data and analysis of monthly UK construction activity by region.

• Parliamentary Business: Construction Industry collects debates, reports, speeches and inquiry details relating to the construction industry.

Government inquiries

• Grenfell Tower Inquiry.
  • Phase 1 report published in four volumes, October 2019. HC49.
  • Phase 2 report published in seven volumes, 1700 pages, 4 September 2024. HC19.

Reference the Phase 2 report as Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2024) Phase 2 Report. Report of the Public Inquiry into the fire at Grenfell Tower on 14 June 2017. (HC 19 2024-25). Available at: https://www.grenfelltowerinquiry.org.uk/phase-2-report [Accessed 4 September 2024].

House of Commons Library Briefing Papers

• Rankl, F. (2023) Fire Safety in Houses and Blocks of Flats (House of Commons Library Briefing Paper 9770), 30 June 2023. 
• Barton, C., Wilson, W., Rankl, F. and Panjwani, A. (2023) Tackling the Under-supply of Housing in England (House of Commons Library Briefing Paper 7671), May 2023. 
• Rankl, F. and Tyers, R. (2023) Unfinished Housing Developments (House of Commons Library Briefing Paper 9689), 16 May 2023.
• Wilson, W. (2022) New-build Housing: Construction defects – issues and solutions (England) (House of Commons Library Briefing Paper 7665), 22 August 2022.

Select Committee Reports

• Fire Safety. House of Commons Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee, Inquiry, started November 2023. Exploring the findings of the Independent Review of the Construction Products Testing Regime.
• Reforms to National Planning  Policy. House of Commons Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee, Inquiry, started March 2023. 7th Report, July 2023, HC1122.
• Sustainability of the Built Environment. House of Commons Environmental Audit Select Committee. Inquiry. 1st Report, Building to Net Zero, 26 May 2022, HC103.
• Building Safety - Remediation and Funding. House of Commons Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee, Inquiry. 7th Report, March 2022, HC1063.
• Modern Methods of Construction Inquiry. House of Commons Housing Communities and Local Government Committee, July 2019. HC1831.
• Off-site manufacture for construction, Building for change. House of Lords Science and Technology Committee Report, September 2018. HL169.

Reports

• Building a Safer Future. Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety. Final report, May 2018 (Hackitt Review). Cm 9607.
• Independent Review of the Construction Products Testing Regime. Testing for a Safer Future, April 2023 (Morrell Review).