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London tower over historic Leadenhall market approved

Building work to start in 2025 on 32-storey tower by historic city market

4 hours ago

PfH starts race for £520m housing decarbonising deal

Four-year framework covers service specific lots from £5m to £100m

3 hours ago

“Rock solid” balance sheet and record results for Henry Boot

Firm sees early signs of recovery this year in core markets

3 hours ago

£200m Edinburgh Haymarket office and hotel approved

Haymarket Yards scheme to move to construction in 2024

3 hours ago

Countryside closes deal for £80m build to rent homes

Deal with private rental developer Sigma to speed up delivery at two sites

4 hours ago

Wates commercial director joins Caddick

Neil Trubshaw one of a string of appointments as contractor looks to expand across the north

3 hours ago

Fusion21 names 16 winners for £125m painting framework

Latest deal will last four-years for public sector clients

12 hours ago

Watkin Jones breaks ground on Cardiff 700 flats scheme

Largest build-to-rent scheme in Wales gets underway

1 day ago

Green light for Birmingham 540-bed student scheme

Work to start on Gough Street student tower this summer

2 days ago

Erith to transform former Ebbsfleet quarry

Joint venture with Henley Developments will see 6,250 new homes built in Kent

2 days ago

Morgan Sindall wins £44m Stevenage leisure hub job

Consolidation of town’s sports facilities into one building will release land for 200 homes

2 days ago

Brickies back on the BBC for new series

Season two of popular programme following workers at Hodgkinson Builders

2 days ago

Subcontractors wanted across Newcastle

Latest Constructionline Meet the Buyer event: Register now

2 days ago

Green light for BBC’s £200m new Birmingham home

BAM Construction tipped for historic Typhoo Tea Building conversion

4 days ago

Worker suffers brain trauma in concrete pump accident

Ready mix firm Singh Will Mix It fined £175,000

4 days ago

Winners named for £139m wastewater framework

Six firms share spoils on high value maintenance lot

4 days ago

Plans in for £35m York Uni student centre

University hopes to start building work by next spring

4 days ago

Pent-up post pandemic demand powers up Beard

Builder raises revenue 15% to £165m but cost inflation causes profit dip

4 days ago

Muse submits 260-home Horsham scheme

Lovell Partnerships will build Larksfield Place scheme in heart of market town

4 days ago

Osborne CEO steps down after one month in the job

Boardroom rejig comes as offsite business is sold to Bowmer & Kirkland

5 days ago

Five trades added to skills shortage list for visas

Bricklayers, roofers, carpenters and plasterers gain relaxed visa status after months of employers’ campaigning

6 days ago

Wates Residential to build over 300 homes in Wembley

Brent Council signs developer deal with Wates for £100m scheme

5 days ago

Government energy efficiency taskforce experts named

Infrastructure tsar Sir John Armitt and Barratt boss David Thomas join panel of 16 experts

5 days ago

Demolition workers destroy new Banksy artwork

Artist confirms new work just hours after it was reduced to rubble

6 days ago

Countryside gets go-ahead for 258 London homes

Third phase of Walthamstow’s Marlowe Road estate regeneration approved

5 days ago

Hunt talks growth while hiking corporation tax

Tax on company profits above £250,000 to hit 25% next month

6 days ago

UK Construction “key driver” in Balfour profit return

Division back in the black with 91% of work now for “public sector and regulated industry clients”

6 days ago

Eleven developers face ban over Gove’s building safety contracts

Housing secretary warns ‘we are coming after you’ as firms fail to sign contracts to remediate their unsafe buildings

7 days ago

Severfield buys Dutch steelwork contractor for £21m

Voortman deal opens door to European market and fast-growing power distribution sector

6 days ago

L&Q starts biggest ever in-house delivered construction job

Housing association’s construction arm starts new-build projects totalling over 1,000 flats this year

6 days ago