Covid-19: Health & Safety advice for building firms

Last updated 8.1.21 Welcome to our Covid-19 Health & Safety advice and support page for building firms where you’ll find website links and information from organisations involved, like HBXL, in supporting the construction industry during this really difficult period. It’s an evolving situation so keep checking in as we’ll update as new information becomes available….

No matter how competitive it gets out there – don’t drop your prices – look up.

I am very pleased to introduce this guest post by Simon Lazarus, Managing Director of The Better Business Group, network partner of HBXL and someone who I have happily chatted to a number of times for our Power Hour face-to-face sessions. As ever wise words from an experienced mentor of building firm owners… 2021 has…

Your five-point personal action plan for January

This 2021 plan for builders could help you personally whether you’re a building firm owner or manager. It’s not another new years resolution article. And we’re not suggesting you aim big or set your sights high. But we know that many builders want to nail 2021 after the nightmare that was 2020. But don’t hang…

All the different construction software tools to nail 2021

Here you go. The construction software tools to nail 2021. All inter-connected. No more stressful paperwork. A stop to endless number crunching. No more standing still. Take a quick look at the brief descriptions of each HBXL software product, a link to its own more detailed page, plus the starting price* (most products offer a…

Why your building business needs you to nail 2021 in January.

Nail 2021 in January! Not in six months time… If you don’t shake up your business now, then 2021 will run away like every year before. The only difference this year – we’re coming out of a pandemic – so there’s more at stake. And if you wait until you’re ready – you could be…

To everyone working in the UK’s construction sector

(Transcript of letter from the The Rt Hon Alok Sharma MP, December 2020) You will have seen the Prime Minister’s announcement on 19th December introducing an additional Tier 4 in London, parts of the South East and the East of England. As explained in his statement, this is to combat the spread of a new…