Matt Brundrett
Matt Brundrett is a digital editor and journalist at Planning, Building & Construction Today, covering the intersection of construction, energy and the environment for a specialist industry audience. His work focuses on how the built environment responds to climate and energy pressures, drawing a line between building performance, regulatory change and the practical realities facing contractors and asset owners. He combines straight news coverage with contextual features and interviews, translating complex policy and technical developments into clear implications for companies working across construction, infrastructure and energy. He joined the masthead in July 2024 after editing in the science and innovation sector.
Heat, cooling and energy resilience in buildings
Brundrett’s environment coverage centres on the way buildings and infrastructure interact with the energy system, from low‑carbon heat to grid flexibility and cooling demand. In his reporting on Britain’s cooling crisis and the continued focus on heating, he treats rising temperatures as a building‑services and resilience issue as much as a climate story, looking at how design, retrofit and regulation lag behind changing conditions. Across energy news, he highlights milestones in low‑carbon generation and heat, including the switch‑on of the first UK geothermal power plant, and frames them in terms of supply security and sector opportunity rather than technology in isolation.
His coverage of the Sizewell C sustainability report similarly focuses on environmental impact and sustainability commitments around a major nuclear project, underlining how large schemes present both decarbonisation benefits and local environmental trade‑offs. In features on demand‑flexible data centres, he explores how high‑intensity digital infrastructure can support rather than strain the grid, emphasising demand response, flexibility and the benefits of integrating energy‑aware operation into project planning.
Energy, nuclear and grid decarbonisation
Beyond individual projects, Brundrett tracks the wider energy transition as it plays out in nuclear and grid‑level planning. His coverage of Great British Energy – Nuclear’s appointment of a consortium to advise on the Small Modular Reactor programme focuses on governance, advisory roles and delivery structures, explaining who is responsible for shaping the programme and how commercial partners fit together. This project‑led framing recurs in his work, where contract awards and programme appointments are treated as signals of the state’s approach to decarbonisation and infrastructure, not just business wins.
He regularly returns to the theme of how construction and engineering firms need to position themselves in the evolving low‑carbon landscape, using stories on geothermal, nuclear and flexible demand to show where new capabilities and partnerships are emerging.
Safety, regulation and industry oversight
Brundrett is a consistent voice on building safety, regulation and enforcement, covering developments that shape duty holders’ obligations and the sector’s risk profile. His reporting on the Grenfell Tower Inquiry and the transmission of case files to prosecutors tracks the progress of high‑profile investigations, setting them in the context of construction crime, fire safety management and accountability. He hosts in‑depth conversations with technical experts on topics such as developing a robust Building Safety Case, drawing out common challenges and practical steps for creating comprehensive documentation that satisfies regulatory requirements. In his coverage of changes to construction employment law, he takes a similar approach, linking new rules to day‑to‑day contractor practice and highlighting how legal shifts affect workforce management and compliance. Safety at the site level also appears in his work on cold‑weather construction, where he relays warnings from industry suppliers and stresses preparation, planning and risk mitigation as temperatures drop.
Workforce, skills and sector performance
The labour market and skills pipeline are another recurring strand in Brundrett’s coverage. He reports on calls from professional bodies for new approaches to construction training and reskilling, outlining why traditional models are no longer sufficient and what kinds of programmes and competencies are needed to meet future demand. His use of surveys and monitors, such as the RICS Construction Monitor for Q2 2026, shows an interest in data‑led assessments of sector health, with stories that chart recovery, workload and sentiment while emphasising that the industry is “not out of the woods yet.”
Taken together, these pieces build a picture of a reporter who treats workforce issues, legal change and market performance as connected parts of the construction ecosystem, rather than isolated topics.
Alongside his news and analysis, Brundrett frequently curates and frames contributed content, providing editorial introductions and context for expert articles on health and safety, HR, energy and projects. He also conducts interviews and roundtable‑style features that leverage external expertise while maintaining a clear, concise style tailored to a professional readership. Before joining Planning, Building & Construction Today, he worked as an assistant editor at Innovation News Network, and earlier in his career his writing appeared on the University of Sheffield’s History Matters blog.
He now works across Planning, Building & Construction Today and BIM Today as a digital editor, bringing a consistent focus on clarity, sector relevance and the practical implications of policy and technology for the built environment.
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