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Bid rigging probe launched into school repair work

Firms raided this week with focus on roofing contracts

3 hours ago

Government commits to four new prisons in seven years

£2.3bn pledged for new prison build programme

3 hours ago

Credit insurance saves Billington from ISG hit

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

8 hours ago

M&E specialist Dodd doubles profit on retrofit surge

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

7 hours ago

Go-ahead for 800-home Croydon dual towers

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

8 hours ago

Construction inflation set to return raising tender prices

End of 2024 to mark the bottom of present inflationary trough

8 hours ago

Start date for vast Balfour and Costain carbon capture power job

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

1 day ago

Plans go in to start revamp of North Finchley town centre

Developer Regal unveils first details of Barnet masterplan

8 hours ago

Glencar bags £18m Big Yellow London store

Six-storey stoarage centre to be built at Staples Corner

7 hours ago

Plan unveiled for 31-storey London Fenchurch Street tower

Demolition work to start in 2026 for new office tower

1 day ago

Vinci Building buys tower cranes for first time

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

1 day ago

30 local firms land United Utilities £500m framework

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

1 day ago

Restructure pays off as Higgins returns to profit

Housing contractor recovers from £25.9m loss last year

1 day ago

Former Heathrow boss joins Mace in board rejig

Firm completes string NED appointments to expanded group board

2 days ago

Planning officers to get powers to bypass committee stage for housing

Rayner reform plan to cut out local council planning committees

2 days ago

National Insurance hike to delay construction recovery

Arcadis paints varied picture with full recovery delayed until 2026

2 days ago

Gratte Bros rides out cost rises with profit increase

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

2 days ago

Sellar’s 36-storey London City office tower approved

Demolition work to start in 2026 at 60 Gracechurch Street site

4 days ago

Roofers caught using phone lights to work at night

Roofing boss handed suspended prison sentence for lack of edge protection

2 days ago

£380m North West housing framework out for bid

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

2 days ago

Historic property magazine to close

Estates Gazette has been in business since 1858

5 days ago

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

Plans were delayed when Michael Gove backed carbon campaigners

6 days ago

£191m revamp funding approved for London Barbican Centre

Construction to start in 2027 on five-year programme

6 days ago

RED Construction tops £100m turnover

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

5 days ago

Timber designs shortlisted for roads ‘footbridge of the future’

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

5 days ago

PM pledges to fast-track 150 infrastructure schemes

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

6 days ago

Amey FM firm fined after legionella kills prisoner

Court fines company £600,000 for prison upkeep failures

5 days ago

Buyers report boom in commercial work

Construction bucks slowdown in general economy

6 days ago

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

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

6 days ago

Galliford Try tops monthly contracts league

Contract awards slow down in November

6 days ago