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Major Building Safety Regulator shake-up to end tower delays

HSE stripped of control and top fire chiefs brought in to fast-track stalled schemes

14 hours ago

Fox buys recycled asphalt specialist Fisher

Acquisition adds major recycled asphalt capacity in north west

7 hours ago

First steel goes up on giant car battery site

Severfield gets to work on McAlpine Somerset site

8 hours ago

Construction comeback to outpace wider economy

Arcadis forecast fueled by spending review optimism

12 hours ago

Hinkley trio sign Sizewell civils deal

Balfour,Bouygues and Laing O’Rourke form Civil Works Alliance for new power station

14 hours ago

£3.9bn data centre plan for Ravenscraig steelworks

Green energy to power massive new steel to silicon AI campus

15 hours ago

Breakthrough on HS2’s second longest tunnel

8.4 mile Northolt to Old Oak Common drive completes

15 hours ago

Neilcott on fast-track to debt-free employee ownership

£22.5m loan nearly paid down after big profit year

14 hours ago

TfL kicks off race for £700m Tube station upgrade

South Kensington and Elephant & Castle top the pipeline list

15 hours ago

Corbyn Plant Hire fleet goes under the hammer

Kit to be sold off by sister firm to collapsed groundworks contractor

15 hours ago

Government wields procurement stick on late payment

New rules would block slow payers from bidding on big public jobs

4 days ago

Hercules buys power line labour firm for £15.7m

Labour supply specialist snaps up Advantage NRG to tap booming electricity upgrade market

4 days ago

Universal bid to fast-track planning for theme park

Entertainment giant eyes 2026 start at Bedford site

4 days ago

Developer Breck to transform former Ibstock brick factory

Ravenhead works to become 300-home development

4 days ago

SP Energy Networks awards contracts worth £1.4bn

First round of awards under £5.4bn national electricity grid upgrade programme

4 days ago

Travelodge to convert Liverpool Street office building

Office-to-hotel conversion in City of London

4 days ago

Plans lodged for 1m sq ft City of London office

Barbican landmark building will reuse 40% of existing structure

4 days ago

PTSG acquires roofing specialist HD Sharman Group

Premier Technical Services Group expands building maintenance division

4 days ago

Balfour Beatty lands £833m carbon capture power plant job

Work to start later this year on Teesside carbon capture gas-fired power station

5 days ago

Svella agrees deal to save Cubby Construction

Solvent purchase set to save 214 jobs and protect supply chain

5 days ago

J Coffey holds line on margins despite £52m revenue slide

Pre-tax profit down 14% but firm eyes strong pipeline to bounce back

5 days ago

Consultants called up for £2.3bn NHS SBS panel reboot

Market asked for views ahead of next-gen procurement rollout

5 days ago

Hochtief launches new UK data centre division

German business model to be introduced for UK construction

5 days ago

Construction skills body launches with 100,000 worker target

Industry to work closer with Jobcentres to find new talent

5 days ago

Kier lands £42m Midlothian school and community hub

Contractor strengthens presence in Scotland with big education job

5 days ago

BESA audit blitz sees 14 specialist contractors suspended

Building engineering services trade body cracks down on standards

6 days ago

Engineers pull-off 220m HS2 viaduct slide in 3 days

Five-structure Northants sequence ends with 1,300t deck slide – video

6 days ago

Managing Director moves to advisory role at Shufflebottom

Alex Shufflebottom steps-down after acquisition by Embrace

6 days ago

JV North unveils winners of £500m housing blitz

Consortium gears up to deliver 3,000 new homes across North West

6 days ago

Partnerships builder Keepmoat names new chief executive

Ian Hoad to take reins as Tim Beale steps down after eight years

6 days ago

Ballymore to transform former Crossrail construction site

Limmo Peninsula will be new neighbourhood in East London

6 days ago

Building Safety Regulator chief to step down

Search on to find replacement for Philip White

7 days ago

Amazon unveils £40bn investment plan for UK sites

Four new fulfillment centres confirmed as part of huge spending package

7 days ago

Glass bridge picked for Queen Elizabeth II memorial

New bridge and gardens will honour late Queen in the heart of London

7 days ago

Mears set to beat profit forecasts after strong first half

Maintenance growth and 100% contract retention drive bullish outlook for 2025

7 days ago

Bouygues lands London 150 key worker homes job

Affordable flats planned near London Bridge in landmark council scheme

7 days ago

Hebden Bridge £68m flood defence job heads to market

Market engagement opens on four-year Environment Agency scheme

7 days ago

Housing plans go in for abandoned theme park

Story Homes to transform former Camelot Theme Park in Lancashire

7 days ago

Morris & Spottiswood sees turnover and profits surge

Growth at M&E division helps power record numbers

7 days ago

Redundancies loom at M&E giant Dalkia

Consultation starts at Southern region

1 week ago

Land deal unlocks East London £750m health hub plan

Queen Mary University secures site to build Whitechapel life sciences complex

1 week ago

Aureos bags £45m Howden Relief Road job

Former Keltbray infrastructure business to start construction next month

1 week ago

Four injured after partially built floor collapses

Court hears how steel beams were cut at the same time Acrow props removed

1 week ago

Careys directors sacked after £4m job-loss showdown

Pair win unfair dismissal case after being accused of “tickling each other’s bollocks”

1 week ago

Octavius wins £31m A38 corridor upgrade

North Somerset picks firm for key trunk road improvement scheme

1 week ago

Danny Sullivan Group hits back over HS2 allegations

Labour supply giant confident it is “fully compliant with all tax obligations”

2 weeks ago

Bid race takes off for £500m MAG airport small works deal

Nine-lot framework to cover civils, building and M&E jobs up to £5m

2 weeks ago

Mace director joins Wates as Chief Commercial Officer

Pat Fitzgerald to lead commercial strategy at Wates

2 weeks ago

Rob Perrins steps up as executive chair in Berkeley shake-up

Long-serving chief steps up to lead housebuilder’s next growth phase

2 weeks ago

Competition watchdog turns attention to civil engineering

Competition and Markets Authority launches study into road and rail delivery

2 weeks ago

Timber imports rise for first time in four years

Softwood volumes and prices lead rebound as housing outlook improves

2 weeks ago