It has been another busy year for the industry, from building safety updates to the appointment of CIOB’s new CEO. Below are the 10 most popular news stories published by CM this year.

The Building Cost Information Service expects tender prices to rise by 19% and new work output to grow by 21%.

Tender prices are anticipated to rise at a faster pace than costs in 2025 as cost inflation moderates and market activity is expected to increase, according to the BCIS.

Parties should download records from a CDE at regular intervals to avoid losing access to them in the event of access to the CDE being denied when in dispute.

Building costs will increase by 15% and tender prices by 19% over the next five years, according to the latest forecast from Building Cost Information Service.

Mitigating inflationary risks will require construction professionals to take proactive steps, writes Pablo Cristi Worm.

The Digital Construction Awards attracted 165 entries this year, 84 of which have been shortlisted. Here, we detail the shortlisted entries for the Contractor of the Year award, sponsored by Procore.

The Building Cost Information Service (BCIS) has launched its Cost and Carbon Materials Database that can calculate cost and carbon values for more than 9,200 common building materials.

The Digital Construction Awards 2024 are now open for entries. The awards are the Oscars for those involved in information management and digital construction. The entry deadline is 15 March.

Costs associated with putting right hospital buildings containing reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) are set to skyrocket.

You know all about Design for Manufacture and Assembly, but what do you know about Design for Disassembly? Don’t worry, Sean Bignold and Fergus Sweeney, architectural director and research assistant respectively of Ryder Architecture, are here to explain.

Welcome to the second instalment of BIMBox’s series on the development of WASTEie, a new dataset to standardise the exchange of construction and demolition (C&D) waste information.

Zainab Anwar and Olivia Jenkins consider the potential value of multiple AI-driven technologies on construction projects. Since the government announced plans to achieve an AI-driven economy that sees the UK…

Rather than being a vision of the future, machine control should be adopted en masse to help tackle construction’s current problems.