Cladding on 34 high-rise blocks in 17 local authorities fail combustibiltiy tests
Police identify both victims after crane came down while being erected
Insulation giant halts supply for rainscreen cladding systems to high-rise buildings
Detectives “seizing relevant material from a number of organisations”
Wandsworth planning chairman claims project is facing “significant challenges”
Council could delay its building projects to fund £31m retrofit programme
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All tower block cladding checked so far fails fire test
Cladding on 34 high-rise blocks in 17 local authorities fail combustibiltiy tests
Crewe crane collapse victim was teenager on first job
Police identify both victims after crane came down while being erected
Celotex to stop supply of Grenfell insulation to towers
Insulation giant halts supply for rainscreen cladding systems to high-rise buildings
Police consider manslaughter charges after Grenfell fire
Detectives “seizing relevant material from a number of organisations”
Council chief sounds warning over Battersea build costs
Wandsworth planning chairman claims project is facing “significant challenges”
Over 200 Birmingham tower blocks to get sprinklers
Council could delay its building projects to fund £31m retrofit programme
First tests reveal combustible cladding on 11 towers
Up to 600 towers need to be checked
Safety alarm raised over fall in HSE construction visits
Surprise site visits by inspectors drop by 14%
Plans for 35-storey Manchester student tower
Unite unveils plan for 600-bed student block near Oxford Road station
London’s Camden Council to strip cladding from five towers
Chalcots Estate project was delivered by Grenfell contractors Rydon and Harley Facades
Contractors urged to stop asking site chefs for skills cards
Firms urged to use common sense over allowing non-construction staff on sites
Planning thumbs up for £150m Lincoln shopping centre
St Marks shopping centre owner Standard Life plans to start work in 2020
Two killed in crane collapse on Crewe construction site
Tower crane comes down on Seddon site
Berkeley cleared to fast-track scheme for Grenfell survivors
Homes and Communities Agency strike deal to buy Kensington Row luxury apartment scheme
Buckingham Group targets £500m revenue in 2018
Profits soar as firm eyes swelling pipeline of stadium projects.
Five more Edinburgh schools found with building defects
Investigation reveals more schools in Edinburgh suffered wall-tie defects
Galliford/Lagan jv wins £135m RAF Marham hangar
New hangar will house a dozen F-35B vertical take-off jets
CIOB sets up commission to probe control of build quality
Paul Nash to lead urgent review into behaviour that undermines quality in construction
Barratt names new finance boss
Barratt promotes Jessica White to top financial executive
Opinion: Construction must say never again to another Grenfell
The industry must break with its lowest cost culture
Profits soar at Berkeley despite housing market uncertainty
Berkeley worried about Brexit impact on skills as half its site labour comes from EU
Hewden sell-off raises £120m but trade creditors get pennies
More than £41m was owed to plant hire giant’s trade creditors
New Bovis Homes boss buys extra £2m shares
Greg Fitzgerald raises his shareholding to around £3.2m
Kier and Bouygues look for London subcontractors
Major meet the buyer event in the capital next week: Register now
Croydon council to retrofit 25 towers with sprinklers
Council to start £10m sprinkler programme in tallest housing blocks
Yorkshire builder’s MBO deal sowed seeds of own demise
George Hurst & Sons never recovered from an MBO a decade ago saddling the business with debt
Queensferry Crossing to open on August 30
End in sight for contractors who have battled against high winds for six years
Councils ordered to check rainscreening on all buildings
Government to fund fire rating tests on all aluminium composite material clad buildings
Morgan Sindall infrastructure boss to join Lagan
Nick Fletcher to return to Lagan as Chief Operating Officer
Architect makes loss as construction market peaks
Aukett Swanke struggling for commissions as market hits “bottom of the cycle”
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