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Cruden takes first job at £1.3bn Edinburgh Waterfront scheme
Preferred bidder named for first 750 net zero homes at new Granton Waterfront coastal town
Tolent seals £40m Newcastle ‘future-living’ housing job
135-home Vaux scheme will be first of four neighbourhoods totalling 1,000 homes
Trio of student towers to be built at Brent Cross Town
Ground works under way with main contractor due to be appointed next month
Keltbray gets start date for £50m motorway upgrade
Contractor hails “significant step forward” for highways business
Site workers settle for 5% pay increase
Contractors and unions agree one-year deal following months of talks
Rising wages and skills gap to overshadow materials issues
Materials and product Inflation tops 20% so far this year, but labour set to be next big headache
Erith pays £2.8m bonus to staff after ownership switch
Around 450 staff have on average received over £6,000 since move to employee ownership five years ago
Algeco lands £19.2m Leeds modular school scheme
Offsite specialist will supply and install 192 steel frame modules
Eight firms placed on £750m Midlands and Eastern framework
Next generation framework for jobs up to £7.5m employs a parallel plotting structure
Aston Villa unveil plans for £100m stadium expansion
Construction set to start next year on first phase of Villa Park upgrade
Skanska bans ‘swing-up’ lorry loaders after site death
Banned vehicles are used mainly to deliver bulky items like cabins and welfare units
HS2 agrees £78m variation on Euston tunnels cost
Skanska Costain Strabag seals extra payment for agreed changes to the scope of work
B&K breaks ground at £150m Newcastle HMRC job
Work gets underway on city’s largest ever office project
New building safety laws come into force today
Leaseholders protected and new regulator for construction product manufacturers in wake of Grenfell
Peel submits plan for £150m cannabis production plant
Isle of Man seeks to become a leader in the emerging medicinal cannabis sector.
Tarmac buys first electric concrete mixer truck
Country’s first battery powered mixer truck will start site deliveries this Autumn
Tilbury Douglas wins Dorset hospital upgrade
Construction could start in 2024 after Dorset County Hospital secures £77.3m of funding
McGee in £2.4m provision for bid-rigging probe
Demolition contractor says provision will cover the expected fine over cover pricing ring
First designs for £275m HS2 Midlands nerve centre
Contractor due to be named in Autumn next year for Washwood Heath hub
London Bankside Yards next project switches from resi to offices
Revised plan submitted for 18-storey office next to Blackfriars Bridge
Plans in for Cambridge North major mixed-use scheme
Over 400 homes and nearly 600,000 sq ft of office and shops planned for railway sidings site
Barratt falls foul of planners on £25m estate
Council acts after residents complain about construction deliveries
VolkerHighways and WJ Group shot blast roads with steel
Latest retexturing technique provides benefits all round
Ten demolition firms named in cartel probe
Biggest names in demolition face massive fines over “unacceptable” behaviour on 19 contracts worth over £150m
Imtech vows to avoid big resi jobs after return to profit
Engineering services arm puts trio of loss-making residential jobs behind it
Sisk replaces Morgan Sindall on £1bn Midlands Highways Alliance
Four firms secure places in Midlands framework renewal race
Winvic wins Bristol Redcliff Quarter 468 flats job
Grainger buys planned build to rent project and brings in Winvic to start this Autumn
Peel takes on Wirral Waters after Urban Splash modular collapse
Developer is reviewing whether to return to traditional build methods after modular specialist collapse
Kier launches £80m JV to build 2,000 homes by 2027
Property arm JV with Lloyds fund to develop housing on urban brownfield sites
Mace chief Reynolds replaces Mitchell at CLC
Mark Reynold takes over as co-chair of the Construction Leadership Council