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Winners of the government's Rent Recognition Challenge Tech will use their prize money to create a simple to use apps that will help renters towards owning their own home.

Global Guardians discuss issues with vacant property during redesign, rebuild and refurbishment stages, or while being sold for redevelopment

Vacant property expert, Stuart Woolgar, CEO of Global Guardians, discusses the country’s current housing crisis and the section of people who cannot buy, nor are they eligible for social housing

The property market hops on the cryptocurrency bandwagon as digital currency is becoming increasingly mainstream

Bitcoin is to be accepted as a payment method by a Northern Ireland property developer amid significant growth

Becoming a Property Guardian is no longer a life-style choice, but a necessity in an over-heated rental market Property Guardians (PGs) come from many different age groups, are often working and on modest incomes. Most PGs live a precarious existence. New research, carried out by York University for the London Assembly...

Simon Broadbent, CEO of Secure Empty Property, advises how property owners or landlords can legally remove squatters from their commercial properties When the law that made squatting in residential properties a criminal offence was put into effect back in 2012, commercial properties have been put exponentially at risk. Now, while residential...

Senior researcher at Center for Electron Nanoscopy at DTU CEN, Takeshi Kasama reveals the institution’s expertise around transmission electron microscopy

Stuart Woolgar, CEO of Global Guardians, discusses the implications and opportunities of the shrinking public sector estate The public-sector estate is shrinking as both the Government Property Unit (GPU), in tandem with municipal and other authorities, seeks to utilise property assets more efficiently and effectively. The way we work as a...

The Government Property Unit aims to streamline the public-sector estate and generate better value for money from its assets, as OAG discovers The Government Property Unit (GPU) was set up in 2010 as part of the Cabinet Office to get better value for money from the public sector’s extensive property...

A new £27 million flood scheme announced for Blackpool hopes to reduce the risk of flood damage for up to 4,800 coastal properties

Colin Small, Chief Operating Officer at Swansea Materials Research and Testing (SMaRT) Ltd outlines how the company provides industry and academia many forms of mechanical property assessment… Swansea Materials Research and Testing Ltd (SMaRT) is a specialist spin out materials testing company created incorporated by Swansea University in 2009 to...

The construction industry could offer the key to thriving outside the EU, while the property sector expects to see some growth… Construction could remain a key driver of economic growth in the future following the EU referendum vote. The National Federation of Builders (NFB) called for the government to maintain capital...

With the vote now only two weeks away, the EU Referendum campaigns are hotting up. In the week where the deadline to register to vote was extended by a day, due to website issues, we also saw a Tory MP change sides from Leave to Remain. Over the last few...

Zachary Burton, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, reports on tRNA (transfer RNA) as a written molecular history of the pre-life to life transition on Earth ~4 billion years ago.

Why are condensation, damp and mould still issues, and how do we know if our location is healthy for all? Here, David Bly, Managing Director of Cornerstone Management Services Limited, explains the firm’s findings and how their reported transparent outcomes have served to provide cost-effective solutions across the industries they serve.

Find out here how Protection Paints provides premium paints that protects against viruses and bacteria and prevents the recurrence of mould growth.

The NHS launches a groundbreaking framework agreement to enhance consultancy and advisory services for the healthcare sector.

26Cornerstone was founded in 2009 by three experienced property damage professionals looking to uphold change in the sector with defined transparency of reported data..

Researchers have introduced a new metric called the earthquake fatality load (EQFL) to assess the impact of earthquakes on countries over the past five centuries.