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Acheson Construction files administration notice

£53m turnover South West contractor lodges court notice

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Hunt for 10 firms to deliver £37bn new hospital plan

Race starts for mega-framework with pledge to spread work among all firms

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Springfield to build homes for army of green energy workers

Scottish house builder sells 2,480 plots to Barratt Redrow in strategy switch

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Preferred bidder for Stoke city centre scheme

Genr8 Kajima to build Etruscan Square scheme in Hanley

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BAM go-ahead for £56m Glasgow leisure centre

Work to start on East Renfrewshire complex later this year

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Network Rail fined £3.75m after double track worker death

Michael Lewis and Gareth Delbridge were killed while working on rail line in Wales

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Local contractor Castle lands £60m South Shields campus

Work to start this summer on new home for South Tyneside College and South Shields Marine School

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GRAHAM wins £100m deal after safety regulator approval

Dyecoats scheme in Leeds becomes one of first to receive Building Safety Act Gateway 2 green light

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London Super Sewer now fully connected

10-year construction programme draws to a close

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McLaren signs off £125m London Bank over-station job

Developer Helical secures funding deal for 8-storey office job

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Work on Labour’s new towns to start by 2029

More than 100 sites put forward for a dozen new town locations

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Unite hails 12 years without a site accident at Battersea

More than 4,000 union members have worked on the redevelopment without a single serious accident

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Housing orders surge offers hope after 5.2% new work fall last year

Housing orders surged 24% in final quarter of 2024 as developers release schemes

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McLaren Property gets new Construction Director

Jon Mangham joins from Equans

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BAM Construction suffers £40m loss after Co-op Live setback

Civils business profit surges 24% to £80m

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Over 150 jobs axed as J S Wright goes under

Insolvency specialist FRP Advisory goes in at Birmingham M&E specialist

5 days ago

Extra cash found to speed-up safety regulator

Government to spend extra £2m to clear backlog of high rise approvals

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Galliford Try lands £63m RAF accommodation deal

Work to start within months at RAF Digby in Lincolnshire

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Balfour Beatty wins Trent arched bridge job

Briton Fabricators will build the £13m bridge from prefabricated sections

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Goldbeck to build new £50m Cardiff County Hall

German-owned contractor vowing to be a “disrupter in the UK market”

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Laing O’Rourke chairman to step down

Ray O’Rourke to take over chair from Sir John Parker

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Farrans lands Leeds Bradford Airport phase 2 upgrade

Contractor takes follow-on refurb job after terminal extension

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ISG built Bristol housing block to be torn down

Contractor’s collapse sinks Bristol flats remediation claim

6 days ago

RSK revenue nears £2bn as losses soar to £132m

Refinancing last summer puts group on course for more growth this year

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Bridge design wind error adds £20m to construction costs

Completion of £148m Grantham Southern Relief Road delayed by a year

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Rayner pledges extra £350m for social house building

More than 3,000 homes could be built with cash injection

5 days ago

City’s biggest retrofit tower scheme approved

Triple-fronted 70 Gracechurch Street building will rise to 33 storeys

6 days ago

Defibrillator saves worker’s life on Wates site

Machine operator saved after “dying” for 16 minutes on prison job

6 days ago

Funding deal for £125m Camden Roundhouse scheme

Developer Regal set to start 264-bed student scheme

6 days ago

Balfour leadership rejig to focus on three key growth sectors

Divisional CEO trio take lead roles for energy, defence and transport expansion

7 days ago

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