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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
Fox buys recycled asphalt specialist Fisher
Acquisition adds major recycled asphalt capacity in north west
First steel goes up on giant car battery site
Severfield gets to work on McAlpine Somerset site
Construction comeback to outpace wider economy
Arcadis forecast fueled by spending review optimism
Hinkley trio sign Sizewell civils deal
Balfour,Bouygues and Laing O’Rourke form Civil Works Alliance for new power station
£3.9bn data centre plan for Ravenscraig steelworks
Green energy to power massive new steel to silicon AI campus
Breakthrough on HS2’s second longest tunnel
8.4 mile Northolt to Old Oak Common drive completes
Neilcott on fast-track to debt-free employee ownership
£22.5m loan nearly paid down after big profit year
TfL kicks off race for £700m Tube station upgrade
South Kensington and Elephant & Castle top the pipeline list
Corbyn Plant Hire fleet goes under the hammer
Kit to be sold off by sister firm to collapsed groundworks contractor
Government wields procurement stick on late payment
New rules would block slow payers from bidding on big public jobs
Hercules buys power line labour firm for £15.7m
Labour supply specialist snaps up Advantage NRG to tap booming electricity upgrade market
Universal bid to fast-track planning for theme park
Entertainment giant eyes 2026 start at Bedford site
Developer Breck to transform former Ibstock brick factory
Ravenhead works to become 300-home development
SP Energy Networks awards contracts worth £1.4bn
First round of awards under £5.4bn national electricity grid upgrade programme
Travelodge to convert Liverpool Street office building
Office-to-hotel conversion in City of London
Plans lodged for 1m sq ft City of London office
Barbican landmark building will reuse 40% of existing structure
PTSG acquires roofing specialist HD Sharman Group
Premier Technical Services Group expands building maintenance division
Balfour Beatty lands £833m carbon capture power plant job
Work to start later this year on Teesside carbon capture gas-fired power station
Svella agrees deal to save Cubby Construction
Solvent purchase set to save 214 jobs and protect supply chain
J Coffey holds line on margins despite £52m revenue slide
Pre-tax profit down 14% but firm eyes strong pipeline to bounce back
Consultants called up for £2.3bn NHS SBS panel reboot
Market asked for views ahead of next-gen procurement rollout
Hochtief launches new UK data centre division
German business model to be introduced for UK construction
Construction skills body launches with 100,000 worker target
Industry to work closer with Jobcentres to find new talent
Kier lands £42m Midlothian school and community hub
Contractor strengthens presence in Scotland with big education job
BESA audit blitz sees 14 specialist contractors suspended
Building engineering services trade body cracks down on standards
Engineers pull-off 220m HS2 viaduct slide in 3 days
Five-structure Northants sequence ends with 1,300t deck slide – video
Managing Director moves to advisory role at Shufflebottom
Alex Shufflebottom steps-down after acquisition by Embrace
JV North unveils winners of £500m housing blitz
Consortium gears up to deliver 3,000 new homes across North West
Partnerships builder Keepmoat names new chief executive
Ian Hoad to take reins as Tim Beale steps down after eight years
Ballymore to transform former Crossrail construction site
Limmo Peninsula will be new neighbourhood in East London
Building Safety Regulator chief to step down
Search on to find replacement for Philip White
Amazon unveils £40bn investment plan for UK sites
Four new fulfillment centres confirmed as part of huge spending package
Glass bridge picked for Queen Elizabeth II memorial
New bridge and gardens will honour late Queen in the heart of London
Mears set to beat profit forecasts after strong first half
Maintenance growth and 100% contract retention drive bullish outlook for 2025
Bouygues lands London 150 key worker homes job
Affordable flats planned near London Bridge in landmark council scheme
Hebden Bridge £68m flood defence job heads to market
Market engagement opens on four-year Environment Agency scheme
Housing plans go in for abandoned theme park
Story Homes to transform former Camelot Theme Park in Lancashire
Morris & Spottiswood sees turnover and profits surge
Growth at M&E division helps power record numbers
Redundancies loom at M&E giant Dalkia
Consultation starts at Southern region
Land deal unlocks East London £750m health hub plan
Queen Mary University secures site to build Whitechapel life sciences complex
Aureos bags £45m Howden Relief Road job
Former Keltbray infrastructure business to start construction next month
Four injured after partially built floor collapses
Court hears how steel beams were cut at the same time Acrow props removed
Careys directors sacked after £4m job-loss showdown
Pair win unfair dismissal case after being accused of “tickling each other’s bollocks”
Octavius wins £31m A38 corridor upgrade
North Somerset picks firm for key trunk road improvement scheme
Danny Sullivan Group hits back over HS2 allegations
Labour supply giant confident it is “fully compliant with all tax obligations”
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
Mace director joins Wates as Chief Commercial Officer
Pat Fitzgerald to lead commercial strategy at Wates
Rob Perrins steps up as executive chair in Berkeley shake-up
Long-serving chief steps up to lead housebuilder’s next growth phase
Competition watchdog turns attention to civil engineering
Competition and Markets Authority launches study into road and rail delivery
Timber imports rise for first time in four years
Softwood volumes and prices lead rebound as housing outlook improves