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Five firms land £1bn Guinness maintenance deal

15-year housing improvement contracts signed

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Government steel strategy set to drive up construction costs

Import clampdown and tariffs threaten price hikes across projects

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Winners named for £1bn North West contractor framework

Kier, BAM and Morgan Sindall land spots on mega framework

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Teenage labourer dies in ventilation shaft fall

Jerram Falkus Construction fined after site tragedy

10 hours ago

Former Battersea Power Station boss launches tribunal claim

Former CEO Don O’Sullivan goes public on tribunal case

10 hours ago

Gobion lands £52m DP World London Gateway yard job

St Albans contractor seals berth 5 container yard deal at Thames port

10 hours ago

Hill seals London Woolwich social homes deal with Clarion

Work on 557-homes development to start later this year

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American student builder gets Birmingham green light

Landmark Properties gains first UK planning approval

10 hours ago

Amey tops construction minimum wage breach list

Firm underpays 2,600 staff in £169,000 slip-up

1 day ago

Second-generation nuclear reactor demolition era begins

Regulator signs off first AGR fleet dismantling at Hunterstone B

1 day ago

McGoff resets leadership to fuel next growth phase

Manchester firm moves to standalone MD model across key divisions

1 day ago

Final phase of London’s Elephant Park gets green light

First co-living towers to complete 10-acre regen scheme

2 days ago

Balfour pleads not guilty after nuclear site death

Court hearing after fatality at AWE’s Aldermaston nuclear site

2 days ago

Go-ahead for Manchester Garden Village

Planning green light and £17.4m site infrastructure deal agreed

1 day ago

Willmott Dixon wins £39m college upgrade

Construction to start imminently at Hopwood Hall College’s Rochdale campus

1 day ago

Contractor J Smart plans new industrial hub

Joint venture with developer at Eurocentral Gateway

2 days ago

Laing O’Rourke wins £3.2m High Court payout in film studios row

Shepperton Studios avoids full £5.6m hit as valid pay less notice cuts award

2 days ago

Beard gives away £4.5m as profits hit £9m high

Family builder shares windfall after 16% turnover jump to £230m

2 days ago

HMRC promotes digital tax changes – with print ads

Tax authorities try to reach contractors with outdated methods

2 days ago

Costain bags £45m Rugby sewage works upgrade

Severn Trent’s Rugby Newbold sewage treatment works upgrade will run to 2028

2 days ago

Wates buys its head office building

Contractor purchases Leatherhead HQ after 20 years of leasing

2 days ago

Caddick bags £25m Durham student flats job

Contractor grows North East pipeline with 232-bed PBSA job

2 days ago

Barking Riverside doubles down with 20,000-home green light

East London mega-scheme nearly doubles in scale with fresh planning nod

2 days ago

Morgan Sindall starts £28m steel decarbonisation centre

Design and build deal first awarded in 2023

2 days ago

One in four construction workers now under 30

CSCS workforce scan data debunks fears of greying workforce timebomb

3 days ago

Kier-led consortium lands £200m fusion energy plant

ILIOS wins race to revamp West Burton Power Station in Nottinghamshire

4 days ago

Bid race starts for £5.5bn flood defence super-framework

Framework will run from 2027 with projects worth up to £150m each

3 days ago

Pothole crisis deepens despite funding rise

ALARM report reveals one in six local roads has less than five years’ structural life left

3 days ago

Flood defence pipeline swells with £1.4bn boost

Environment Agency details 600 schemes set to roll out as it ramps up delivery push

3 days ago

Robertson uses blow-up roof to keep hospital dry

Inflatable tent system replaces bulky scaffold sheeting on hospital upgrade

4 days ago