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A million young people out of work, an industry 206,000 people short. The numbers, the three ideas that could change things on site, and five questions every construction board should answer before the report lands.

The Budget moved money to mayors, revived Help to Buy and set an apprentice target. The constraint now is the client-side leaders who can deliver it.

Mace posted 45 new senior roles this week, over half of all new senior vacancies added across UK construction, mostly associate director grade.

Balfour Beatty's regional civils MD says ECI is how you take risk out of infrastructure schemes. She is right. But the process only works if the right people are in the room on both sides, and nobody puts them on the risk register.

A fortnight of construction headlines, read the way a recruiter reads them, and an honest account of why I am publishing that reading for free instead of keeping it in the drawer.

Durkan Holdings has walked away from contracting entirely after fifty years, blaming regulatory risk rather than a lack of work. What that decision means for where the industry's compliance-savvy senior talent goes next, and what it should tell you about the risk you're paid to carry.

Why retaining older workers, and passing on what they know, has become one of the most pressing questions in UK construction and infrastructure.

Five hospital schemes, five main contractors, one region. The Norwich supplier day will answer which firms can deliver the work. It cannot answer the harder question: which people will lead it.

The live count of open director and head-of level roles across UK contractors and programmes, and what it says about where the market is moving.