construction industry timeline infographic

Middle Ages: Craft Guilds founded

Building ActEarly surveyors

Direct Employment of craftsmen1563 Statute of Artificers7 year apprenticeship

1666: Great Fire of London

1760s:Start of the Canal Age

1729 La Science des Ingénieurs Engineering Profession

1770 First regular use of Architects1790s Cast Iron starts to be used1794 Portland Cement patented1797 First iron framed building

1835 First Concrete house built

1830s:Start of the Railway Age

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1850s:High volume / low quality housing

Competitive Tendering starts. Practice of sub-contracting starts

1851 Great Exhibition / Crystal Palace1852 Palace of Westminster completed1856 Development of structural steel.Peabody Trust – First Housing Assocaition

1860s:Concrete becomes widely used in the UK. Sewer building programme starts

1879 Electric lighting introduced1887 British Fire Prevention Committee1887 RIBA members cannot hold profit making position in contractor organisation

1890s:Housing of the Working Classes Act. Standardised Housing

1901 Engineering Standards Committee formed. Published British Standards. BS1 for tramways the first standard 1903 BS4 for structural steel published1906 Completion of Ritz, first large steel framed building in Britain1919 Housing Acts. 170,000 council homes in 4 years1924 Wheatley subsidies – 500,000 homes built in 8 years

1930s:4 million homes built by the private sector

1931 Legal recognition of Architect. Joint Contracts Tribunal

1932 Completion of Boots Factory, Beeston. Early reinforced concrete building. Daily Express Building, UK’s first curtain walling building1940s:

Investigation of factory assembly

1955 Slum clearance programme started. High rise pre-cast flat building programme

1950s:Development of Design and Build

1966 Completion of Centre Point1968 Collapse at Ronan Point1979 Management Contracting starts1983: World in Action

Documentary on timber framed houses

1985 Barratt stop manufacture of Timber Frame Homes1985 Completion of Lloyds Building1986 Eurotunnel formed1988 Housing Act – transfer of council housing stock

1992: PFI started 1994 Eurotunnel opens1994 Constructing the Team, Sir Michael Latham1998 Rethinking Construction, Sir John Egan Construction Act

2003: Modern Methods of Construction

2016: BIM required on government projects over £5 million

1900s:First British Standards published

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2008: Heathrow Terminal 5 Completed

2011: Olympic Park Opens

2004 Completion of Scottish Parliament2005 £60,000 house competition2007 Planning White Paper2007 Wembley Stadium Completed

2008 Strategy for Sustainable Construction2009 Paul Morrell appointed as Government's first Chief Construction Advisor

2011 James report recommends standardised school design2011 Low Carbon Construction Action Plan published2013 Clients start to recognise that building operating costs exceed construction costs2013 Industrial Construction Strategy published (July)

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1894 Completion of Tower Bridge

15 BC Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, the first recorded architect dies

2020s: Adoption of systemised/modular design and construction

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1945 800,000 Bevan homes built in 6 years based on 13 prefabricated designs

General contractors established. Fixed price contracting develops

1800s: New methods of contracting