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Beard expands reach as revenue hits record £179m

Builder start 2024 with healthy head of work

4 hours ago

Race to start for £25m Cardiff twin tower reclad jon

Cardiff council to use SEWCAP to bid Butetown high rise flats revamp

7 hours ago

Gove calls up ‘super-squad’ to clear London planning log-jam

Specialist planning team first to unlock 7,000 homes in Newham and Greenwich

12 hours ago

Permasteelisa in £35m cladding win at St John’s Wood Square

Italian specialist to start work on luxury resi site by the end of this year

13 hours ago

Investor pumps another £30m into low carbon builder

House builder Greencore gets more funding as latest results reveal £4m loss

16 hours ago

800-bed Leeds student and shops scheme approved

Major three-block scheme will replace The Core shopping centre in the city

20 hours ago

Modular homes specialist files administration notice

Lighthouse bosses battle to save the business

21 hours ago

Go-ahead for £175m Birmingham Broad Street tower

Work to start on 47 storey build to rent tower in September

21 hours ago

Erith trading rebounds after lengthy bid-rigging probe

Staff paid £1.5m bonus after year of growth and return to profit

21 hours ago

Balfour and Costain win vast power and carbon capture job

Nine firms to share £4bn Teesside net zero work bonanza

4 days ago

First ‘Great Grid Upgrade’ job goes to MGroup and Murphy

Works to start this summer on £400m Yorkshire GREEN electricity pylon upgrade

4 days ago

London council can no longer police planning applications

Planing row reveals Greenwich officials no longer follow-up to check on developments

4 days ago

Surgo Construction falls into administration

46 jobs lost as historic contractor ceases trading

5 days ago

Mace fresh start date for £90m Natural History Museum hub

Reading project to build store for 28m specimens to start early next year

4 days ago

Competition watchdog probes Barratt Redrow merger

CMA opens investigation into creation of mega house builder

4 days ago

Safety chiefs act to avoid building control crisis

Three-month extension to deadline for professionals to prove their competence

4 days ago

TClarke hits £500m turnover target but profitability slips

Big work-winning year sees order book swell 70% to £943m

4 days ago

Just 10% of £10bn Levelling Up funding spent by councils

Speed of delivering ‘shovel-ready’ projects fails to meet expectations

4 days ago

Six win £1bn North West & Central railway works deal

Story, Murphy and Amey feature in five-year CP7 framework

4 days ago

Willmott Dixon names new finance chief

James Mackenzie joins from Willmott Dixon’s Eco World development JV

4 days ago

Ilke Homes name reappears after £320m collapse

New brand Homespace now owns modular designs after Ilke failure

5 days ago

Second staircase rule costs Vistry £19m

Firm reopens East Midlands timber frame manufacturing plant

5 days ago

Clients urged to get ahead of contractor recovery cycle

T&T says investment decisions must be ‘made not delayed’ for best value

5 days ago

Fife groundworks and plant hirer goes under axing 35 jobs

James Penman (Plant Hire) falls into administration in 50th anniversary year

5 days ago

Smart Motorway Programme Alliance chief to step down

Tony Slater is moving on to take up fresh career challenge

5 days ago

Balfour M25 workers vote for strike in pay row

Maintenance crews to down tools over “meagre” pay offer

6 days ago

Andrew English returns to Skanska as infrastructure boss

Returning director replaces Jonathan Willcock who is off to Costain

6 days ago

Construction back in growth as output rises 1.1% in January

Green shoots of recovery as private housing returns to growth

6 days ago

UK Construction shines in solid year for Balfour Beatty

Operating margin improves to 2.3% at UK construction arm

6 days ago

JJ Rhatigan wins £49m London co-living homes job

Wood Lane project will deliver over 200 flats

6 days ago

Cornish plant hire firm files administration notice

Duchy Plant Hire has a 400-strong fleet serving sites across the South West

6 days ago

Henry Construction scaffolding goes under the hammer

Online auction of kit owned by collapsed contractor

6 days ago

Norfolk invites bids for £600m highways deal

Firms invited to register now for 12-year roads deal

6 days ago

Galliford Try expands offer for water clients

Contractor to work closer with five leading consultants on AMP8 jobs

6 days ago

Costain profits dented by slide in transport arm trading

Revenue and operating profit slides after rephasing and rescoping of projects at highways

7 days ago

Persimmon prepares for another tough year ahead

Profilts halve but housing giant confident about medium term prospects

7 days ago

Reboot for £3.6bn NHS modular buildings framework

New hybrid construction/modular lot added as specialists face fight to retain places

7 days ago

2026 start for £6bn London Earls Court scheme

Detailed plans revealed for phase one which will include 1,000 homes

7 days ago

15-year London Waterloo Station revamp plan

Large rooftop extension and closed railway arches to be opened up over 15-year plan

1 week ago

Plans go in for £250m revamp of Glasgow site

Two-phase scheme will transform neglected Charing Cross area of city

7 days ago

Go-ahead for 1,600 rental homes for London biscuit factory

Greystar amends £500m Bermondsey site scheme to meet second staircase rules

1 week ago

A66 Northern Trans-Pennine job gains development consent

£1.3bn scheme will upgrade sections of the A66 between Penrith and the A1(M) at Scotch Corner

2 weeks ago

£450m Coventry city centre regeneration thumbs up

Demolition work will start in late summer on City Centre South scheme

1 week ago

Scaffold tower collapse caught on car dashcam

Video shows horror moment workers are catapulted onto busy road

1 week ago

Willmott Dixon nabs £18m Pendle police station

Firm secures another blue light building contract

1 week ago

Extra £180m of water spending to prevent sewage spills

12-month targeted programme of additional investment to keep rivers cleaner

1 week ago

Murphy tops February contracts league

Massive Lower Thames Crossing road tunnel award dominates rankings

2 weeks ago

HS2 tunnel workers hit out at site conditions

Unite union flags up worker concerns on SCS stretch of project

2 weeks ago

Galliford Try bags first phase of £135m Wigan Galleries project

Phase one includes a new market hall and food court and 144-bedroom hotel

2 weeks ago

Subcontractors wanted for Welsh projects

Latest Constructionline event in Newport: Register now

2 weeks ago

£2bn Leeds to Bradford tram plan unveiled

West Yorkshire Mayor Tracy Brabin says with funding work could begin in 2028

2 weeks ago