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Joinery giant goes into administration
170 jobs at risk at UK’s largest independent door and window manufacturer
House building industry calls for revised Part L delay
Industry warns current SAP testing method is too unreliable to progress with revision of Building Regulation Part L 2013
Willmott Dixon to open training centre in Birmingham
Centre will train 2,000 students a year including recruits to contractor’s new Green Deal division
Scottish cladding contractor goes bust
CDW is latest victim of downturn as liquidators move in at £7.5m turnover specialist
£750m former Middlesex Hospital site plan approved
Balfour, Mace and McAlpine race hots up for £160m contract as site gains planning
Insulation firm blames funding cuts for collapse
Gavin Ward insulation business placed in administration but heating arm continues to trade
OFT to probe Travis Perkins takeover of Toolstation
Decision by competition watchdogs leaves builders merchant baffled
More delays for £2bn schools programme
Contractors resigned to timetable slipping as bids for funding swamp system
Nottingham Council selects preferred firms
City council names 14 firms for highways maintenance supply chain
Crossrail rethinks Connaught Tunnel plan
Engineers switch to cut and cover approach to widening East London dock tunnel
McLaren in major restructuring
Contractor now owned by international holding company as UK construction team revamped
Balfour union members vote to strike
Less than 450 Unite members vote on action among Balfour Beatty Engineering Service’s 1650 staff
Betting Spy: Man U to beat Chelsea as City wobble
United are a good bet at 15/8 while Ireland are decent value in a wide-open Six Nations
Denne wins £50m Bedford riverside revamp
Planning to go in this summer for cinema, hotel, resi and 30,000 sq ft of retail space
Construction buyers see brighter 2012 prospects
Confidence levels about future prospects hit eight month high among purchasers
Atkins team escape to Alcatraz
Consultant wins job to oversee repair work on infamous American prison
Safety team visited disaster site day before steel collapse
Pastor says it was a “miracle” that workers building collapsed church were not hurt
Bam Nuttall scoops £76m Olympic Park rebuild
Olympic Park Legacy Company also prepares to invite firms to bid for £95m Olympic Stadium rebuild
£500m Suffolk council highways work up for grabs
County Coucil will hold a bidders day to outline plans for wholesale contracting out of highways maintenance
Plans submitted for £48m Bolton station revamp
If planning is successful construction could start this year
VAT cheats blagged £700k via fake contractor
Kent swindlers set up bogus dry lining firm to con HMRC out of VAT repayments
Simons to build Melton Mowbray Sainsbury’s
Decision expected soon on start date for 65,000 sq ft Sainsbury’s store
First workload rise since credit crunch for civils
Rise in orders and workload driven by rail, water and sewerage where spending cycles start to peak
Hague Plant wins trade mark battle with Martin Hague
Sheffield plant firm Hague Plant wins trade mark infringement battle against former director Martin Hague
Five-storey steel frame building collapses
Ashe Construction workers escape unharmed after leaving site minutes before steel frame collapses
Kier secures Derby 700-home scheme
Connell Brothers is carrying out demolition to allow a building start in the Autumn
Get Britain Building fast tracks sites: Full list
Homes and Communities Agency deluged with applications for £420m fund
Hunt for firm to build £20m North Wales rail bridge
Work on the new road and rail bridge at Pont Briwet is planned to start in November
Three jailed for selling contract bid information
Prison sentences handed out to corrupt UK ring selling bid information on overseas oil and gas projects
JCB blow as engineering diploma downgraded
Industry hits out as engineering diplomas downgraded from five GCSE equivalents to just one
Spurs commit to building new £400m stadium
Public money to fund local improvements including £8.5m new stadium approach
Four shortlisted for £950m training estate FM deal
Subcontractors urged to liaise with shortlisted bidders
Boss fined after toppling crane boom kills worker
Director and contractor fined £178,000 including costs after North London site death
Leader of Britain’s small builders leaves post
Director general Richard Diment parts company with Federation of Master Builders
April start for Vinci on £54m Bristol Life Sciences site
Contract and start date confirmed for new university building
Balfour Beatty takes £335m Danish signalling job
Balfour Beatty’s slice of the signal upgrade work will be worth up to £90m
Green light for £129m Blue Light PFI bid
Construction of first of four Avon and Somerset Police buildings will start in September
Milton Keynes to outsource £30m highways contract
Industry open day planned next month for interested contractors
Magnox seeks firms for £50m small works deal
Dozen firms needed for 5-year Magnox small works framework
Client and contractor fall out at £12m arts centre
War of words erupts as further delays hit Mareel cinema and arts complex in Shetland
Halifax Piece Hall £19m revamp to go-ahead
Calderdale Council plans to apply for vital Heritage Lottery funding in March
Student accommodation giant shrugs off numbers fall
Developer Unite says demand for student digs still outstrips supply despite UCAS applications drop
Pochin sees signs of recovery in construction
Sale of loss making concrete pumping operation due to be completed shortly
McLaren starts main works at £26m shopping centre
Work at Whiteley Shopping Centre due for completion in spring 2013
Lack of site toilets lands contractor in court
Company ignored previous improvement notice leaving 16 builders without a working loo
Concrete show is 60% bigger this year
Industry defies downturn with sold-out event in Coventry next month
Mace starts £50m Regent Street build
Regent Street building demolition nears completion to allow Mace to start building work
New Forth crossing steel sourced outside UK
China, Spain and Poland win 37,000t steelwork order, worth an estimated £790m
Consultants named for £350m HS2 prize
First contract award from eagerly-awaited consultancy package expected within weeks
Builder dies in 40ft fall on Blackburn site
Police quiz colleagues after tragedy at factory conversion site
Terrace Hill to start north east Sainsbury’s stores
Developer Terrace Hill will start construction work this year on Sainsbury’s stores in Sunderland and Sedgefield
£16m Carlisle student village gets go-ahead
Border Construction is set to start work on a student village in Carlilse for the University of Cumbria
Trio on tenterhooks for £1.2bn Hinkley contract
O’Rourke hopes its directly employed workforce will swing nuclear decision due within weeks
Crane drivers dispute hits Glasgow hospital site
Brookfield Southern General hospital job disrupted by walkout over pay
April start for Mace on £340m Broadgate job
Completion scheduled for late 2014 as 60% of packages already out to tender
New Welsh trunk roads framework opens for bids
Welsh Assembly advances plan to create new highways maintenance region for mid and north Wales
Morgan Sindall wins £16m Exeter Uni student block
Demolition starts on Exeter printworks to make way for 487-bed student blocks
Construction worker crushed to death in jaws of grabber
Contractor JN Bentley fined £106,000 after lifting operation goes horribly wrong
Demolition workers boots turn radioactive at Dounreay
Investigation underway after workers contaminated at nuclear site
2012 success can win UK firms work around globe
Consultant McBains Cooper flies the flag for “gold medal” Olympic construction
New MD for Davis Langdon
Infrastructure boss Steve Waltho appointed managing director of European operations
Fit out begins as Olympic Village handed over
Village contractors complete eleven apartment blocks on time as work starts on shopping plaza
Major rail contractors promise fair payment
Network Rail enforces 28-day payment and a retentions ban
Off-the-shelf schools to win Willmott Dixon £100m
Warwickshire County Council buys first standardised design school, cutting costs by a third
Mansell gets go-ahead for £18m Thetford academy
Mansell will start work on Norfolk academy project in March
Opinion:£124 an hour HSE charge is an outrage
Dump this daft initiative now before it mutates into a mass revenue generating exercise
New head for O’Rourke building division
Product of “Young Guns” training programme to lead UK construction unit
Scaffolder breaks back in roof fall
Fall through fragile roof leaves scaffolder unable to work on site again
Contractors fury at HSE charges of £124 an hour
Site visits by inspectors will spark invoices from April for safety improvement advice
Vinci wins £12m Bristol Cathedral conversion
Work to start on Bristol Pro Cathedral site next week for developer Student Castle
Betting Spy: Arsenal to win back crowd with early strike
Wenger needs to silence boo boys so Gunners to be winning at half time and full time is the call
B&K bags Sainsbury’s Wolverhampton store
£40m-plus project includes 45 homes and 85 apartments alongside two-storey superstore
Tata cuts 110 jobs as structural steel demand falls
Job losses at Corby plant follow recent cuts in Scunthorpe
Basingstoke £100m logistics shed approved
Sainsbury’s gains planning for new regional distribution depot and offices
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