Podcast
21 October 2025
A fortnightly podcast in which veteran construction industry journalists Bishop and Taylor have a natter about some of the week鈥檚 events in the UK construction industry, seeking meaning even where none may exist.
9th September 2020
Taylor credits Bishop with raising demand for dogs, while Bishop credits Taylor with raising consciousness of the threat to chalk streams. Of greater relevance, however, is the use of a hydrogen fuel cell system to provide power for a pioneering construction project in Lincolnshire.
1st September 2020
With the new school year starting, it鈥檚 a time of fresh beginnings; should you still work from home or return to the office?聽
A Loughborough University study finds how well construction has adapted to the constraints of Covid-19.聽
Meanwhile trade secretary Liz Truss appears to have no truck with the construction industry, shutting it out of her 11 trade advisory groups. It鈥檚 Bishop & Taylor time on Re:construction.
26th August 2020
Bishop & Taylor discuss delays to the 拢4bn Thames Tideway project as well as the transport secretary鈥檚 new acceleration unit and a drill attachment that cuts square holes.
19th August 2020
Bishop & Taylor turn their attention to the contents of the August issue of 猛料视频 magazine, and cover remarkably wide ground鈥�
12th August 2020
Bishop & Taylor are joined by structural engineer Kevin Lyons to discuss offsite construction. Our two regulars then also mull the government鈥檚 planning white paper and wonder whether contractors will be eager to pay plant hire firms a premium for carbon offsetting.
5th August 2020
This was the week that we learned more details of the 拢2bn Green Home Grants scheme, with the condition that only Trustmark accredited installers could be used; and the Genoa San Giorgio Bridge opened, less than two years after the old Morandi Brige collapsed. Bishop & Taylor reflect on it all.
29th July 2020
With a no-deal Brexit on the cards, Bishop & Taylor discuss unresolved issues for the construction industry, including the future of product standardisation; and 鈥� with protests camps fighting a rear-guard action 鈥� they agree to disagree about HS2.
15th July 2020
Bishop & Taylor discuss the need for face masks (both in life and on site), Rishi Sunak鈥檚 Plan for Jobs, and (after the fatal 8th July collapse in East London) tower crane safety.
1st July 2020
Bishop & Taylor discuss the Prime Minister鈥檚 Rooseveltian ambitions, the suspension of democratic accountability at the Construction Industry Training Board, and the sale of Interserve Facilities Management to Mitie.
Read more on all these topics, and more, at www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/news
17th June 2020
In this episode Bishop & Taylor discuss industry job losses, how overseas contractors exploit UK state aid, construction鈥檚 plastic packaging problem and the remarkable claims of air-purifying paint.
