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Everton stadium cladding firm files administration notice
Alucraft Systems Ltd has been on Everton job since last May
Crest Nicholson hit by more build defect problems
Remediation work on four more sites could cost £15m
Beard expands reach as revenue hits record £179m
Builder starts 2024 with healthy head of work
Race to start for £25m Cardiff twin tower reclad job
Cardiff council to use SEWCAP to bid Butetown high rise flats revamp
Gove calls up ‘super-squad’ to clear London planning log-jam
Specialist planning team first to unlock 7,000 homes in Newham and Greenwich
Permasteelisa in £35m cladding win at St John’s Wood Square
Italian specialist to start work on luxury resi site by the end of this year
Investor pumps another £30m into low carbon builder
House builder Greencore gets more funding as latest results reveal £4m loss
800-bed Leeds student and shops scheme approved
Major three-block scheme will replace The Core shopping centre in the city
Modular homes specialist files administration notice
Lighthouse bosses battle to save the business
Go-ahead for £175m Birmingham Broad Street tower
Work to start on 47 storey build to rent tower in September
Erith trading rebounds after lengthy bid-rigging probe
Staff paid £1.5m bonus after year of growth and return to profit
Balfour and Costain win vast power and carbon capture job
Nine firms to share £4bn Teesside net zero work bonanza
First ‘Great Grid Upgrade’ job goes to MGroup and Murphy
Works to start this summer on £400m Yorkshire GREEN electricity pylon upgrade
London council can no longer police planning applications
Planing row reveals Greenwich officials no longer follow-up to check on developments
Surgo Construction falls into administration
46 jobs lost as historic contractor ceases trading
Mace fresh start date for £90m Natural History Museum hub
Reading project to build store for 28m specimens to start early next year
Competition watchdog probes Barratt Redrow merger
CMA opens investigation into creation of mega house builder
Safety chiefs act to avoid building control crisis
Three-month extension to deadline for professionals to prove their competence
TClarke hits £500m turnover target but profitability slips
Big work-winning year sees order book swell 70% to £943m
Just 10% of £10bn Levelling Up funding spent by councils
Speed of delivering ‘shovel-ready’ projects fails to meet expectations
Six win £1bn North West & Central railway works deal
Story, Murphy and Amey feature in five-year CP7 framework
Willmott Dixon names new finance chief
James Mackenzie joins from Willmott Dixon’s Eco World development JV
Ilke Homes name reappears after £320m collapse
New brand Homespace now owns modular designs after Ilke failure
Second staircase rule costs Vistry £19m
Firm reopens East Midlands timber frame manufacturing plant
Clients urged to get ahead of contractor recovery cycle
T&T says investment decisions must be ‘made not delayed’ for best value
Fife groundworks and plant hirer goes under axing 35 jobs
James Penman (Plant Hire) falls into administration in 50th anniversary year
Smart Motorway Programme Alliance chief to step down
Tony Slater is moving on to take up fresh career challenge
Balfour M25 workers vote for strike in pay row
Maintenance crews to down tools over “meagre” pay offer
Andrew English returns to Skanska as infrastructure boss
Returning director replaces Jonathan Willcock who is off to Costain
Construction back in growth as output rises 1.1% in January
Green shoots of recovery as private housing returns to growth
UK Construction shines in solid year for Balfour Beatty
Operating margin improves to 2.3% at UK construction arm
JJ Rhatigan wins £49m London co-living homes job
Wood Lane project will deliver over 200 flats
Cornish plant hire firm files administration notice
Duchy Plant Hire has a 400-strong fleet serving sites across the South West
Henry Construction scaffolding goes under the hammer
Online auction of kit owned by collapsed contractor
Norfolk invites bids for £600m highways deal
Firms invited to register now for 12-year roads deal
Galliford Try expands offer for water clients
Contractor to work closer with five leading consultants on AMP8 jobs
Costain profits dented by slide in transport arm trading
Revenue and operating profit slides after rephasing and rescoping of projects at highways
Persimmon prepares for another tough year ahead
Profilts halve but housing giant confident about medium term prospects
Reboot for £3.6bn NHS modular buildings framework
New hybrid construction/modular lot added as specialists face fight to retain places
2026 start for £6bn London Earls Court scheme
Detailed plans revealed for phase one which will include 1,000 homes
15-year London Waterloo Station revamp plan
Large rooftop extension and closed railway arches to be opened up over 15-year plan
Plans go in for £250m revamp of Glasgow site
Two-phase scheme will transform neglected Charing Cross area of city
Go-ahead for 1,600 rental homes for London biscuit factory
Greystar amends £500m Bermondsey site scheme to meet second staircase rules
A66 Northern Trans-Pennine job gains development consent
£1.3bn scheme will upgrade sections of the A66 between Penrith and the A1(M) at Scotch Corner
£450m Coventry city centre regeneration thumbs up
Demolition work will start in late summer on City Centre South scheme
Scaffold tower collapse caught on car dashcam
Video shows horror moment workers are catapulted onto busy road
Willmott Dixon nabs £18m Pendle police station
Firm secures another blue light building contract
Extra £180m of water spending to prevent sewage spills
12-month targeted programme of additional investment to keep rivers cleaner
Murphy tops February contracts league
Massive Lower Thames Crossing road tunnel award dominates rankings
HS2 tunnel workers hit out at site conditions
Unite union flags up worker concerns on SCS stretch of project
Galliford Try bags first phase of £135m Wigan Galleries project
Phase one includes a new market hall and food court and 144-bedroom hotel