Category: News
Building safety act adding six months to delivery ...
Student accommodation developer Unite today warned the Building Safety Act will slow development pipelines by around six months.
£250m Stockport homes scheme set to start
North West developer Cityheart has picked local contractor Oak Construction Projects to deliver the first phase of its 440-flat St...
Prep work starts for vast HS2 box slide under A46
Balfour Beatty Vinci joint venture has completed construction of a 14,500-tonne box structure designed to allow HS2 trains beneath...
Daily takings down again for buiders' merchants
New data from the tills of Britain’s builders’ merchants show sales struggling to rally.
New president for RICS
On 1st January 2025 Justin Sullivan became the 143rd president of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)
Network Rail chief Andrew Haines knighted
Network Rail chief executive Andrew Haines received a knighthood in a New Year Honours list with few gongs for construction.
HS2 set for “fundamental reset” to lower construct...
New HS2 Chief Executive Mark Wild said the project is facing “a very serious situation” and is need of a “fundamental reset” in a ...
Notting Hill Genesis seeks more tier 1 repairs con...
Notting Hill Genesis plans to widen to eight firms the number of tier one repair contractors it uses in a strategic new approach t...
£113m Basildon rental homes scheme seals build fin...
A joint venture between Orwell Real Estate and Housing Growth Partnership has secured finance to build a landmark build to rent sc...
Stiffer fines for over-running street works from n...
The Government is pressing ahead with a crackdown on late-running street works with stiffer fines and £100m extra to resurface roa...
Cement demand to fall 25% by 2050
Global cement demand is being forecast to fall by around 25% over the next 25 years
Landmark ruling could unclog the courts
The threat of post-Grenfell cladding litigation clogging up the courts for years to come has been allayed somewhat by a court judg...
Construction associations join campaign against in...
Thirty two Trade Associations, representing more than 160,000 UK family-owned businesses and farms, have written to the chancellor...
Buro Happold to engineer Barbican renewal
The City of London Corporation has approved a £191m funding package to support critical repairs and upgrades at the Barbican Centr...
Old JCB factory site to become Bamford Place
Midlands-based Cameron Homes, has partnered with machinery manufacturer JCB to submit plans to redevelop a 15-acre site in Uttoxet...
Norwich City Council revives Anglia Square plans
Norwich City Council has acquired the Anglia Square Shopping Centre to revive redevelopment plans for the city centre.
Reclaimed steel oil rig columns worked into London...
Developer Kajima has picked Curo Construction to deliver a major office building revamp in the heart of Fitzrovia in Central Londo...
Contract awards fall but data centres to drive 202...
The construction industry posted a second consecutive month of falling contract awards in November according to the latest analysi...
Land remediation plans go in for huge Ravenscraig ...
A major planning application has been submitted to North Lanarkshire Council for the extraction and remediation works of 200 acres...
Go-ahead for City of London’s tallest tower
Plans to build the City of London’s tallest tower have received the green light.
