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Go-ahead for City of London’s tallest tower
1 Undershaft building will equal the Shard in height
Construction T Level scrapped due to lack of demand
Courses canned after less than 100 sign-up for latest round
Five firms clinch £300m Greenwich Uni framework deal
McLaren, Wates, Morgan Sindall, Vinci and Willmott Dixon secure places
Hill Group strikes first Build to Rent deal
House builder agrees finance with Lloyds Living to start Stevenage scheme
Construction output hit by fall in repair and maintenance
Industrial and commercial new work grows despite wider fall in activity
Wates transfers pension scheme to “superfund”
Pension management specialist Clara to take charge of £210m fund
Muse hires new development director for North West
Tom Darby joins from developer Bruntwood
Bid rigging probe launched into school repair work
Firms raided this week with focus on roofing contracts
McLaren hires ex-ISG regional boss for north east expansion
Andrew Beaumont becomes MD of new Yorkshire and North East business
Government commits to four new prisons in seven years
£2.3bn pledged for new prison build programme
Road and rail delays hit revenue at Van Elle
Turnover drops 5% as markets remain challenging for piling specialist
Boot reports ‘noticeable improvement’ in planning system
Government planning reforms already unblocking council planning
Go-ahead to revamp former London city hall
Project will straighten the building’s leaning profile with terraces to every level
United Living to divert Midlands gas pipeline
600m pipeline diversion clears way for M54 to M6 link road construction
Credit insurance saves Billington from ISG hit
Steel specialist puts on extra shifts at its plants to cope with demand
M&E specialist Dodd doubles profit on retrofit surge
Family-owned Telford specialist delivers record revenue of nearly £250m
Go-ahead for 800-home Croydon dual towers
One Lansdowne Road build to rent scheme to cost £260m to build
Construction inflation set to return raising tender prices
End of 2024 to mark the bottom of present inflationary trough
Start date for vast Balfour and Costain carbon capture power job
£4bn Teesside project to start construction next year creating 3,000 jobs
Plans go in to start revamp of North Finchley town centre
Developer Regal unveils first details of Barnet masterplan
Glencar bags £18m Big Yellow London store
Six-storey stoarage centre to be built at Staples Corner
Plan unveiled for 31-storey London Fenchurch Street tower
Demolition work to start in 2026 for new office tower
Vinci Building buys tower cranes for first time
Contractor invests in two WOLFFKRAN all-electric cranes at £138m Sheffield site
30 local firms land United Utilities £500m framework
Minor works deal win for North West civils and M&E specialists
Restructure pays off as Higgins returns to profit
Housing contractor recovers from £25.9m loss last year
Former Heathrow boss joins Mace in board rejig
Firm completes string NED appointments to expanded group board
Planning officers to get powers to bypass committee stage for housing
Rayner reform plan to cut out local council planning committees
National Insurance hike to delay construction recovery
Arcadis paints varied picture with full recovery delayed until 2026
Gratte Bros rides out cost rises with profit increase
M&E specialist warns of further upward pressure on wage costs
Sellar’s 36-storey London City office tower approved
Demolition work to start in 2026 at 60 Gracechurch Street site
Roofers caught using phone lights to work at night
Roofing boss handed suspended prison sentence for lack of edge protection
£380m North West housing framework out for bid
St Helens-based Torus aims to build 9,000 homes by 2029
Historic property magazine to close
Estates Gazette has been in business since 1858
M&S Marble Arch rebuild approved after three-year planning fight
Plans were delayed when Michael Gove backed carbon campaigners
£191m revamp funding approved for London Barbican Centre
Construction to start in 2027 on five-year programme
RED Construction tops £100m turnover
Builder maintains profit margin at 1.7% as business nearly doubles in size
Timber designs shortlisted for roads ‘footbridge of the future’
Three of five designs for National Highways propose timber structures over busy highways
PM pledges to fast-track 150 infrastructure schemes
Fresh promise to speed up planning decisions on infrastructure and house building
Amey FM firm fined after legionella kills prisoner
Court fines company £600,000 for prison upkeep failures
Buyers report boom in commercial work
Construction bucks slowdown in general economy
Plans in for £250m Stockport 8 housing-led scheme
Work to start on phase 1 by the end of next year
Galliford Try tops monthly contracts league
Contract awards slow down in November
Erith explosives set demolition record at Sizewell
Watch blast at former nuclear turbine hall: Video
Vistry to build 950 homes next to Olympic Park
Developer signed for £600m Pudding Mill Lane scheme in East London
Inflatable formwork used for 45m tall cement silo
Ground-breaking dome silo inflated at Tilbury Docks
Briggs & Forrester sells maintenance arm
100 engineers to move over to new owner
£2bn Edinburgh ‘West Town’ scheme approved
7,000 homes to be built at 205-acre site
Rayner approves Lancashire super prison
Communities secretary overrules planning inspector for 1,700 inmate prison.
Wates boss returns after collapse of his own contractor
Paul Nicholls was head of the failed Real construction group
Trio secure Birmingham deal to retrofit 3,000 homes a year
Specialist contractors to install insulation, efficient heating and solar panels
Costain confirms £400m HS2 tunnels win
Work to start early next year on tunnel and lineside mechanical and electrical systems