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Laing O’Rourke makes a £288m loss

Rampant inflation on fixed-price jobs and problem contracts blow hole in accounts

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Wates signs Government safety remediation pact

Private builder belatedly signs fire safety developer remediation contract

18 mins ago

Keltbray, OCU and Clancy clinch £1bn electricity network upgrade

Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks awards biggest ever deals for central southern England

20 hours ago

Liverpool all-electric industrial park approved

McLaren and Caddick in chase for Sefton 800,000 sq ft Atlantic Park scheme

12 hours ago

Former Buckingham Group MD to join John F Hunt

Simon Hyams is new Managing Director for Contracting

21 hours ago

Three in race for retendered £150m A9 dualling job

Bidders take another look after client takes on more risk

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Clancy tops £300m revenue in fifth year of growth

Civils contractor delivers £13.5m pre-tax from water and energy sector work

23 hours ago

Tower crane collapses on Edinburgh resi site

Jib falls onto apartment block under construction: Video

2 days ago

Salboy drops office space from Viadux Phase Two

Developer to focus on Manchester residential towers of 76 and 23 storeys

2 days ago

Warwick Uni plan for science and engineering campus

370,000 sq ft science and engineering precinct submitted for planning

24 hours ago

Morgan Sindall chalks up Greater Manchester schools treble

Bury, Stockport and Wythenshawe school jobs will create 1,600 pupil places

23 hours ago

Plans in for £65m Blackpool multiversity campus

Council leads plan for Talbot Gateway learning campus

24 hours ago

Laing O’Rourke wins first phase of £700m Oxford R&D district

Landmark Red Hall and two labs to be built in phase 1a of Oxford North scheme

3 days ago

Ardmore wins retrofit deal on £200m Chancery Lane office

Building will be transformed to provide 105,637 sq ft of office space

3 days ago

Construction’s “Leading Lights” recognised

More than 50 winners in latest Considerate Constructors Scheme awards

2 days ago

Balfour Beatty clinches £20m Norfolk coastal defence jobs

Firm will install rock armour at Cromer and Mundesley

2 days ago

Architects join construction union Unite

Section of Architectural Workers forms official branch

3 days ago

Boot to build £20m lightweight aviation composites factory

Work starts on Sheffield University’s COMPASS R&D facility

2 days ago

GMI secures £27m Leeds City College job

Site clearance underway for new Mabgate campus

3 days ago

Balfour signs deal with Koreans for UK power transmission jobs

Contractor strengthens large-scale onshore power transmission capability

3 days ago

36 storey south London build to rent flats tower approved

Construction to start next year on £220m Croydon scheme

3 days ago

Hunt for firms for £400m volumetric offsite deal

Procurement for Housing aims to expand its pool of firms on major offsite framework

3 days ago

Graham wins £87m Jock’s Lodge junction upgrade

Spring start for East Riding A164 improvement scheme near Beverley

6 days ago

Giant concrete pour at HS2 Curzon Viaduct: Video

Over 2,000 cubic metres create the first two 90 metre viaduct deck structures,

3 days ago

Cladding safety contractors told to wear body cameras

Insurance giant AXA to record remedial work

3 days ago

Colmore Tang Construction enters liquidation

Birmingham builder wrapped up after 10 years

6 days ago

Competition warning over Hanson deal to buy Mick George

Watchdog raises concerns over competition in East of England and the East Midlands

6 days ago

Worker lifted to safety as blaze engulfs McAlpine site

Crane driver lifts man to safety in cage from burning town centre building in Reading

7 days ago

£100m Digbeth 33-storey flats job out to tender

Clarion Housing brings 480 flats project to the market

6 days ago

Housing slump hits brickies

Younger and inexperienced bricklayers being let go first

6 days ago