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Traditional builders dominate £800m MMC framework
20 out of 22 places on modular housing deal go to local contractors
Dubai contractor sells 15% stake in Costain
ASGC sells stake for £38m after investing £25m in fund raise four years ago
Amazon to invest £8bn in hyperscale datacentres
Data centre sector heats up as cloud computing giant AWS unveils big expansion plans
Plan lodged for Square Mile’s fifth tallest tower
54-floor 99 Bishopsgate tower will provide 1 m sq ft of office space
Morgan Sindall pulls off contracts league double
Firm swoops to top monthly and 12-month contracts league rankings
Hadden Construction goes into administration
66 jobs lost at £30m turnover Perthshire contractor
McAleer & Rushe wants to meet subcontractors across Scotland
Register now for Meet the Buyer event: Full list of suppliers wanted
Construction output slide in July ends two-month growth spurt
Recovery stutters along as construction activity dips 0.4%
Laing O’Rourke finance chief to join plastic products firm
Rowan Baker to join Essentra in November
Tight cost control returns Laing O’Rourke to profit
Group margin back to 1.9% as orders swell to record £10.8bn
Kier to noise-proof 20,000 homes around Heathrow
Eight-year programme will involve new windows, doors, loft insulation and upgrade ceilings
Caddick to build £42m Schneider Electric factory
New facility at Scarborough Business Park will open next year
Record turnover but inflation hits profits at HG Construction
Revenue tops £400m for first time but fixed-price contracts hit bottom line
Speedy HS2 viaduct push cuts disruption for drivers
Balfour Beatty VINCI and Victor Buyck move 158 metre structure over roads in 11 hours: Video
Morris & Spottiswood expands after M&E acquisition success
Fit-out and refurb specialist lifts revenue over a quarter to £128m
Barratt, Lloyds and Homes England form JV for large housing schemes
Master developer JV to advance schemes of up to 10,000 homes
Eric Wright Construction books best profit for 12 years
Construction drives growth in more challenging year for group profitability
National Grid fined £3.2m after pylon accident
Worker suffers 40% burns from 33,000 volt shock
Civils contractor Glenevin goes into administration
All staff made redundant at £38.2m turnover broadband infrastructure specialist
Fusion go-ahead for 700-bed Cardiff student scheme
Building works to get underway at the start of 2025
Go-ahead for Salford 568 flat co-living scheme
Contractor talks underway for 42-storey residential tower
McAlpine healthcare MD joins BAM as Northern chief
Mark Gibson joins as Northern regional director
HS2 Align JV completes Britain’s longest rail bridge – video
Final deck segment sees HS2 viaduct break 137-year old record held by Tay Bridge
Green light for major London city fringe office retrofit
Overhaul of 30 Finsbury Square to start next Summer
John Lewis submits plan for £80m Reading rental flats scheme
Construction hoped to start on 215 flats scheme at the start of 2026
Balfour Beatty lands £27m Highlands flood defence scheme
Work to start imminently building river walls in Comrie
Buyers believe construction has “turned a corner”
Residential rebounds, commercial still strong but civils slows
Vistry unseats Barratt as Britain’s biggest house builder
Partnership homes specialist on track to build 18,000 homes this year
23 jobs axed as Lincolnshire contractor goes under
C G Godfrey provided civils and M&E services in Eastern England
Winvic first to use remote-control tower crane on site
Crane driver sits in ground floor command centre at Birmingham 33-storey tower
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