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Council pulls £274m road scheme over bats row

Ferrovial stood down after £56m spent on Norwich Western Link

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£500m house building framework opens for bids

17 firms face fight to retain places on north west housing consortium list

8 hours ago

Government faces £49bn estate maintenance backlog

Spending watchdog calls for urgent action to save crumbling public estate

8 hours ago

Sellafield awards £95m industrial services framework

Kaeffer seals new access, asbestos and insulation deal

8 hours ago

HG Construction names new MD

Greg Purkiss appointment completes corporate restructure

9 hours ago

Plasterer in court for Covid loan fraud

Fraudster spent £50,000 Bounce Back loan on gambling, groceries and fantasy football

8 hours ago

Industry’s best construction managers revealed

Full shortlist for CIOB Construction Manager of the Year award

1 day ago

Steeplejack dies after 60 metre church fall

Specialist contractor, which has ceased trading since accident, fined £60,000

6 hours ago

Government to signal backing for London airports expansion

Chancellor growth plan speech to give nod to Heathrow, Gatwick and Luton plans

1 day ago

Hospital building plan extended by a decade – full list

All planned projects retained with fresh start dates for industry certainty

1 day ago

Kier launches £20m share buyback as debt cut

Steady first-half trading shrinks average month end debt to £38m from £137m

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Plans unveiled for £365m Heathrow data centre

Distribution centre developer moves into data centre market

1 day ago
Proposed view of Northern Gateway

Plan for 6.5m sq ft Greater Manchester industrial zone

Russell LDP and Harworth to submit ambitious Northern Gateway plan this Spring

1 day ago

Building boss sold diggers still on HP

Court hears how building director sold rented machines to fund sports car and gambling habit

2 days ago

Wates names new hard FM chief

Jack Prady joins from Thermic Technical FM

2 days ago

Council steps-in at sites where developer failed

First Endeavour LLP went under while building new homes across Fife

2 days ago

Mace confirmed for £93m weather centre HQ

Work to start on weather scientist hub at University of Reading

2 days ago

Council starts £200m hunt to replace Balfour Beatty

Tender race begins after Herefordshire Council parts ways with contractor

2 days ago

St William gets go-ahead for 245-home Stratford scheme

Planning approved for Stratford Gasworks regeneration

2 days ago

Balfour Beatty to sell Omnicom to Hitachi Rail

Digital rail monitoring business employs over 100 engineers

2 days ago

Van Elle partners with Wood on power transmission jobs

Ground investigation and piling deal worth over £30m

2 days ago

Former Balfour regional MD dies before taking up new role

Lindsay McGibbon struck down by cancer

5 days ago

One of Wales’ oldest contractors delivers record profit

Andrew Scott chairman says clients are now looking beyond lowest bids for jobs

5 days ago

Henry administrators chase £10m director payment

Cash frozen as legal action continues

6 days ago

Warning after scammers pose as plant hire bosses

Flannery targeted by fraudsters trying to con customers

5 days ago

Carey co-founder Tom Carey passes away

Contractor confirms death of second of three founding brothers

6 days ago

Robertson and Balfour win £333m schools deal

Contractors land work for five schools in Scotland

5 days ago

Go-ahead for £125m Ealing leisure centre and homes scheme

Council seeks contractor to deliver flagship Gurnell development

5 days ago

State of Englands local roads a ‘national embarrassment’

Spending watchdog urges Govt to tackle £15bn repair backlog

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Worker loses three fingers at timber frame factory

Construction supplier fined after panel saw accident

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