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Go-ahead for City of London’s tallest tower

1 Undershaft building will equal the Shard in height

2 days ago

Construction T Level scrapped due to lack of demand

Courses canned after less than 100 sign-up for latest round

3 days ago

Five firms clinch £300m Greenwich Uni framework deal

McLaren, Wates, Morgan Sindall, Vinci and Willmott Dixon secure places

2 days ago

Hill Group strikes first Build to Rent deal

House builder agrees finance with Lloyds Living to start Stevenage scheme

2 days ago

Construction output hit by fall in repair and maintenance

Industrial and commercial new work grows despite wider fall in activity

2 days ago

Wates transfers pension scheme to “superfund”

Pension management specialist Clara to take charge of £210m fund

2 days ago

Muse hires new development director for North West

Tom Darby joins from developer Bruntwood

2 days ago

Bid rigging probe launched into school repair work

Firms raided this week with focus on roofing contracts

4 days ago

McLaren hires ex-ISG regional boss for north east expansion

Andrew Beaumont becomes MD of new Yorkshire and North East business

3 days ago

Government commits to four new prisons in seven years

£2.3bn pledged for new prison build programme

4 days ago

Road and rail delays hit revenue at Van Elle

Turnover drops 5% as markets remain challenging for piling specialist

3 days ago

Boot reports ‘noticeable improvement’ in planning system

Government planning reforms already unblocking council planning

3 days ago

Go-ahead to revamp former London city hall

Project will straighten the building’s leaning profile with terraces to every level

4 days ago

United Living to divert Midlands gas pipeline

600m pipeline diversion clears way for M54 to M6 link road construction

3 days ago

Credit insurance saves Billington from ISG hit

Steel specialist puts on extra shifts at its plants to cope with demand

4 days ago

M&E specialist Dodd doubles profit on retrofit surge

Family-owned Telford specialist delivers record revenue of nearly £250m

4 days ago

Go-ahead for 800-home Croydon dual towers

One Lansdowne Road build to rent scheme to cost £260m to build

4 days ago

Construction inflation set to return raising tender prices

End of 2024 to mark the bottom of present inflationary trough

4 days ago

Start date for vast Balfour and Costain carbon capture power job

£4bn Teesside project to start construction next year creating 3,000 jobs

5 days ago

Plans go in to start revamp of North Finchley town centre

Developer Regal unveils first details of Barnet masterplan

4 days ago

Glencar bags £18m Big Yellow London store

Six-storey stoarage centre to be built at Staples Corner

4 days ago

Plan unveiled for 31-storey London Fenchurch Street tower

Demolition work to start in 2026 for new office tower

5 days ago

Vinci Building buys tower cranes for first time

Contractor invests in two WOLFFKRAN all-electric cranes at £138m Sheffield site

5 days ago

30 local firms land United Utilities £500m framework

Minor works deal win for North West civils and M&E specialists

5 days ago

Restructure pays off as Higgins returns to profit

Housing contractor recovers from £25.9m loss last year

5 days ago

Former Heathrow boss joins Mace in board rejig

Firm completes string NED appointments to expanded group board

6 days ago

Planning officers to get powers to bypass committee stage for housing

Rayner reform plan to cut out local council planning committees

6 days ago

National Insurance hike to delay construction recovery

Arcadis paints varied picture with full recovery delayed until 2026

6 days ago

Gratte Bros rides out cost rises with profit increase

M&E specialist warns of further upward pressure on wage costs

6 days ago

Sellar’s 36-storey London City office tower approved

Demolition work to start in 2026 at 60 Gracechurch Street site

1 week ago

Roofers caught using phone lights to work at night

Roofing boss handed suspended prison sentence for lack of edge protection

6 days ago

£380m North West housing framework out for bid

St Helens-based Torus aims to build 9,000 homes by 2029

6 days ago

Historic property magazine to close

Estates Gazette has been in business since 1858

1 week ago

M&S Marble Arch rebuild approved after three-year planning fight

Plans were delayed when Michael Gove backed carbon campaigners

1 week ago

£191m revamp funding approved for London Barbican Centre

Construction to start in 2027 on five-year programme

1 week ago

RED Construction tops £100m turnover

Builder maintains profit margin at 1.7% as business nearly doubles in size

1 week ago

Timber designs shortlisted for roads ‘footbridge of the future’

Three of five designs for National Highways propose timber structures over busy highways

1 week ago

PM pledges to fast-track 150 infrastructure schemes

Fresh promise to speed up planning decisions on infrastructure and house building

1 week ago

Amey FM firm fined after legionella kills prisoner

Court fines company £600,000 for prison upkeep failures

1 week ago

Buyers report boom in commercial work

Construction bucks slowdown in general economy

1 week ago

Plans in for £250m Stockport 8 housing-led scheme

Work to start on phase 1 by the end of next year

1 week ago

Galliford Try tops monthly contracts league

Contract awards slow down in November

1 week ago

Erith explosives set demolition record at Sizewell

Watch blast at former nuclear turbine hall: Video

1 week ago

Vistry to build 950 homes next to Olympic Park

Developer signed for £600m Pudding Mill Lane scheme in East London

1 week ago

Inflatable formwork used for 45m tall cement silo

Ground-breaking dome silo inflated at Tilbury Docks

1 week ago

Briggs & Forrester sells maintenance arm

100 engineers to move over to new owner

2 weeks ago

£2bn Edinburgh ‘West Town’ scheme approved

7,000 homes to be built at 205-acre site

2 weeks ago

Rayner approves Lancashire super prison

Communities secretary overrules planning inspector for 1,700 inmate prison.

2 weeks ago

Wates boss returns after collapse of his own contractor

Paul Nicholls was head of the failed Real construction group

2 weeks ago

Trio secure Birmingham deal to retrofit 3,000 homes a year

Specialist contractors to install insulation, efficient heating and solar panels

2 weeks ago

Costain confirms £400m HS2 tunnels win

Work to start early next year on tunnel and lineside mechanical and electrical systems

2 weeks ago