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Start date for vast Balfour and Costain carbon capture power job

£4bn Teesside project to start construction next year creating 3,000 jobs

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Plan unveiled for 31-storey London Fenchurch Street tower

Demolition work to start in 2026 for new office tower

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Vinci Building buys tower cranes for first time

Contractor invests in two WOLFFKRAN all-electric cranes at £138m Sheffield site

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30 local firms land United Utilities £500m framework

Minor works deal win for North West civils and M&E specialists

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Restructure pays off as Higgins returns to profit

Housing contractor recovers from £25.9m loss last year

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Former Heathrow boss joins Mace in board rejig

Firm completes string NED appointments to expanded group board

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Planning officers to get powers to bypass committee stage for housing

Rayner reform plan to cut out local council planning committees

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National Insurance hike to delay construction recovery

Arcadis paints varied picture with full recovery delayed until 2026

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Gratte Bros rides out cost rises with profit increase

M&E specialist warns of further upward pressure on wage costs

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Sellar’s 36-storey London City office tower approved

Demolition work to start in 2026 at 60 Gracechurch Street site

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Roofers caught using phone lights to work at night

Roofing boss handed suspended prison sentence for lack of edge protection

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£380m North West housing framework out for bid

St Helens-based Torus aims to build 9,000 homes by 2029

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Historic property magazine to close

Estates Gazette has been in business since 1858

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M&S Marble Arch rebuild approved after three-year planning fight

Plans were delayed when Michael Gove backed carbon campaigners

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£191m revamp funding approved for London Barbican Centre

Construction to start in 2027 on five-year programme

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RED Construction tops £100m turnover

Builder maintains profit margin at 1.7% as business nearly doubles in size

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Timber designs shortlisted for roads ‘footbridge of the future’

Three of five designs for National Highways propose timber structures over busy highways

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PM pledges to fast-track 150 infrastructure schemes

Fresh promise to speed up planning decisions on infrastructure and house building

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Amey FM firm fined after legionella kills prisoner

Court fines company £600,000 for prison upkeep failures

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Buyers report boom in commercial work

Construction bucks slowdown in general economy

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Plans in for £250m Stockport 8 housing-led scheme

Work to start on phase 1 by the end of next year

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Galliford Try tops monthly contracts league

Contract awards slow down in November

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Erith explosives set demolition record at Sizewell

Watch blast at former nuclear turbine hall: Video

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Vistry to build 950 homes next to Olympic Park

Developer signed for £600m Pudding Mill Lane scheme in East London

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Inflatable formwork used for 45m tall cement silo

Ground-breaking dome silo inflated at Tilbury Docks

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Briggs & Forrester sells maintenance arm

100 engineers to move over to new owner

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£2bn Edinburgh ‘West Town’ scheme approved

7,000 homes to be built at 205-acre site

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Rayner approves Lancashire super prison

Communities secretary overrules planning inspector for 1,700 inmate prison.

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Wates boss returns after collapse of his own contractor

Paul Nicholls was head of the failed Real construction group

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Trio secure Birmingham deal to retrofit 3,000 homes a year

Specialist contractors to install insulation, efficient heating and solar panels

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