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Fusion go-ahead for 700-bed Cardiff student scheme

Building works to get underway at the start of 2025

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Go-ahead for Salford 568 flat co-living scheme

Contractor talks underway for 42-storey residential tower

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McAlpine healthcare MD joins BAM as Northern chief

Mark Gibson joins as Northern regional director

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HS2 Align JV completes Britain’s longest rail bridge – video

Final deck segment sees HS2 viaduct break 137-year old record held by Tay Bridge

3 days ago

Green light for major London city fringe office retrofit

Overhaul of 30 Finsbury Square to start next Summer

3 days ago

John Lewis submits plan for £80m Reading rental flats scheme

Construction hoped to start on 215 flats scheme at the start of 2026

3 days ago

Balfour Beatty lands £27m Highlands flood defence scheme

Work to start imminently building river walls in Comrie

3 days ago

Buyers believe construction has “turned a corner”

Residential rebounds, commercial still strong but civils slows

4 days ago

Vistry unseats Barratt as Britain’s biggest house builder

Partnership homes specialist on track to build 18,000 homes this year

4 days ago

23 jobs axed as Lincolnshire contractor goes under

C G Godfrey provided civils and M&E services in Eastern England

4 days ago

Winvic first to use remote-control tower crane on site

Crane driver sits in ground floor command centre at Birmingham 33-storey tower

5 days ago

Starmer vows to ban Grenfell firms from public contracts

Prime Minister to write to named and shamed construction firms

5 days ago

Grenfell Inquiry calls for uber construction regulator

Shake-up must include licensing of main contractors taking on high rise projects

5 days ago

Robertson to restore historic Newcastle market

Work to revamp Grainger Market to start by the end of this month

4 days ago

Three bidders chase £1.4bn Midlands rail hub alliance

Balfour, Skanska, Bam and Laing O’Rouke in bidding for eight-year rail upgrade

5 days ago

Barratt profit nosedives as margin slumps to 4.2%

Fire safety provisions jump by an extra £126m to total £628m

5 days ago

First viaduct completed on HS2: Video site report

Eiffage, Kier, Ferrovial Construction and Bam Nuttall finish 163m long Highfurlong Brook Viaduct

5 days ago

Bouygues bags £28m Oxfordshire school job

St John’s Academy to be at heart of Wellington Gate Development

5 days ago

Willmott Dixon wins £49m Wigan college expansion

New campus for Wigan & Leigh College to be net zero in operation

5 days ago

Work to start on Liverpool office to flats job

Truman D&B wins resi conversion in Moorfields district

5 days ago

Government mothballs plan to scrap CE Mark

Building safety minister warns there is insufficient capacity in present testing regime

6 days ago

Government backs record number of clean energy projects

131 projects will produce electricity to power 11 million homes.

6 days ago

Tube station housing plan gets Government green light

Plans to transform Cockfosters Tube station were blocked by previous regime

6 days ago

Go-ahead for Bristol Temple Quay hotel and build to rent job

A trio of blocks will house a 230-room hotel, 170-room apart-hotel and 100 rental flats

6 days ago

Construction costs cut for Plymouth city centre revamp

Price of Armada Way scheme falls to £30m after exploratory work on site

6 days ago

Tilbury Douglas chief Paul Gandy to step down

Craig Tatton to take on CEO role from November

7 days ago

Local pressure unblocks £240m Oxford sewage works upgrade

Council warns Thames Water delay is halting building of thousands of new homes

7 days ago

Knights Brown bags last phase of £86m Portsmouth flood defence job

Contractor has already completed second and third phases of North Portsea Coastal Scheme

7 days ago

Bidding starts for £1bn housing decarbonising framework

National housing energy efficiency retrofit deal will come into force in 2015

7 days ago

World’s strongest land-based crane launched

Mammoet crane will help build major energy and infrastructure projects

7 days ago

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