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£500m Leeds South Bank scheme gets green light
Leeds City Council approves plan for 1,350 flats in mixed-use South Bank development
Galliford Try takes rebid £150m Carlisle Southern Link Road
Main construction works are due to start on 8km road in June
Arup takes stake in graphene-enhanced concrete venture
New concrete additive Concretene™ promises 30% savings in CO2 emissions
Winners revealed on £1.42bn materials framework
Thirteen builders merchants land places on huge procurement deal for social landlords
Travelodge eyes plans for another 300 hotels
Hotel giant writes to local councils offering partnership deals with a £3bn investment target
Balfour Beatty to invest £60m in pop-up EV chargers
New Urban Fox JV will roll out 35,000 charge points across the UK over the next decade.
Leading Channel Isles builder goes bust
Jersey-based construction firm Camerons placed in liquidation
HS2 Euston needs full design reset as costs set to double
Spending watchdog warns Euston stop-start delay will simply inflate already ballooning costs
Worker dies on major warehouse site in Stafford
Main contractor Glencar halts work while tragedy is investigated
Sellar switches London flats/hotel plan for 444 student rooms
Southwark’s King’s Place scheme will comprise five buildings of up to 11 storeys
Bid race starts for Norfolk £30m Long Stratton Bypass
Council hopes to start work on 3.9km bypass in April 2024
GMI to build first warehouse at £200m Teesside business park
Work to start early next month on first shed at airport business park
Skanska Costain Strabag JV sets up own rebar plant
HS2 team now running on-site manufacturing facility to avoid supply chain issues
Bid rigging: Keltbray to appeal and so could Squibb
Both contractors “disappointed” with level of fines
Ten demolition firms fined £60m for bid rigging
Full details of fines with Erith and Keltbray hardest hit
Retail contractor J M Scully files administration notice
£23m turnover Dorset based contractor lodges court notice
Civils specialist M Lambe delivers record performance
Housing civils specialist seeks to diversify in face of challenging housing market
Willmott Dixon clinches £60m Oxford Brookes University job
Preparation work starts on two new buildings at Headington Hill campus
Ferns seals £50m+ Openreach network services deal
Five-year south west deal to provide civils, poling and complex manhole programme
20 firms win £4.5bn Southern construction framework
A dozen new firms secure spots on fifth generation public sector deal
Call grows for bolder 18m second staircase rule for flats
Architects, surveyors and builders professional trade bodies demand lower height threshold than proposed 30m
GRS Roadstone warns staff following cyber attack
Materials giant sends out letters highlighting the extent of the attack
Inland Homes to suspend shares as results delayed again
Auditors need more time to go through embattled house builder’s books
Kier wins £73m Southport events centre job
Local supply chain set to benefit from major new project
Multiplex profit rebounds as margin restored to 2.9%
London tower builder predicts return to revenue growth this year as major schemes advance
Upbeat Vistry to re-open mothballed offsite factory
Former Countryside timber panel factories rebranded Vistry Works in revived drive to deliver 5,000 units a year
Builder crushed and blinded in wall collapse
Property owner in court after barn conversion goes horribly wrong
Keltbray bags £140m haul of energy infrastructure work
Specialist secures trio of power frameworks, two battery storage facilities and an energy from waste package
Government awards £1.8bn for energy retrofit schemes – list
Housing and public building decarbonising funds awards to support 20,000 construction jobs
Landmark London scheme switches from flats to student rooms
Regal London rethinks Old Kent Road scheme with 900 student rooms and 220 affordable homes