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Strabag buys structural steelwork specialist Crofton

European giant boosts offering with acquisition

8 hours ago

HMRC broadens CIS fraud powers beyond direct offenders

New ‘should have known’ rule shifts penalty risk onto main contractors

10 hours ago

Race starts for £30m mega container store at London Gateway

12-storey steel-heavy build planned inside live port terminal

10 hours ago

Bristol £350m Temple Island scheme approved

520 homes, offices and hotel plan at previously proposed arena site

10 hours ago

Severn Trent plots £1.2bn tunnelling mega framework

Water company opens long-term trenchless pipeline and shaft works bid race

11 hours ago

Morgan Sindall bags £29m West London school block job

Work starts on Villiers High teaching block in Southall

10 hours ago

Labourer fractures skull in stairwell fall

Contractor and director fined after accident on apartment block site

22 hours ago

Berkeley fires up 1,000-home Sutton scheme

Enabling works start on ex-B&Q site with first homes due to launch later this year

10 hours ago

Ardmore to appeal landmark £15m Building Safety Act ruling

Court widens net for historic defects liability beyond insolvent firm to all group companies

5 days ago

Graham set for £284m London Met Uni revamp

Firm to deliver decade-long capital works and FM contract

5 days ago

Race begins for £142m Bank of England refurbishment job

Contractors faces unknown conditions inside ageing historic buildings

5 days ago

Fraud gang sentenced for fixing safety tests for CSCS cards

Scammers charged up to £850 a head to feed answers through concealed earpieces during safety exams

6 days ago

Subcontractors wanted across London

Constructionline bringing buyers and suppliers together

5 days ago

Speedy flags-up hire delays as market weakens

Hirer confident £35m HSS deal will improve bottom line

5 days ago

Reds10 shake-up puts founder in new group CEO seat

MMC specialist creates new parent group to unite nine businesses

6 days ago

Berkeley slams brakes on land buying as market headwinds bite

Builder pivots to existing pipeline and tighter build-out to protect margins

6 days ago

Work stopped on £44m Lindum site after council blunder

Ashfield District Council identified “governance issues” with job months after construction starts

7 days ago

Mace lines up data centre push with senior switch

Paul Connolly steps up as Alister Grey plans exit this summer

6 days ago

Billington lands £50m project haul as order book backs 2026 target

Steel specialist lines up carbon capture, bridge, chip plant and data centre jobs for 2026 and 2027

6 days ago

NG Bailey buys ESG to tap £100bn water investment wave

£30m-turnover engineering specialist joins group as AMP8 spending ramps up

6 days ago

Torsion eyes £200m turnover despite slowdown threat

Student rooms and resi specialist lifts sales to £165m with pipeline nearing £660m

6 days ago

Pay caps scrapped in mega schemes reset to lure top talent

Whitehall halves major projects pipeline to sharpen delivery

6 days ago

£16bn housing bank launches to unlock stalled schemes

Aviva deal kicks off new government-backed lender targeting 500,000 homes

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Middle East crisis fuels fresh construction cost surge

Supply chain braces for fresh wave of price hikes as transport and manufacturing costs spike

1 week ago

US investor behind Bovis circles listed brick giant

Private equity group Atlas stalks Brickability after 65p-a-share approach

1 week ago

Canary Wharf Group lines up another major office retrofit

Consent secured for 545,000 sq ft revamp of former 33 Canada Square

1 week ago

Severfield hit by margin squeeze as job delays impact

Steel giant keeps profit steady but warns pricing pressure will impact 2027

1 week ago

Metrocentre owner signs up for 4,500-home Tyne riverside revival

Landmark public-private pact for carbon-neutral south bank district

1 week ago

Tishman Speyer to refurb Pall Mall office block

Developer plans major revamp after acquiring central London building

1 week ago

Multiplex revenue nears £1bn but margins squeezed

Profit halves to £9.8m as project phasing erodes margin

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