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Heathrow to start T4 revamp next year in £1.3bn spend plan

Major terminal overhaul leads Heathrow’s next wave of upgrades

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Scottish Water names preferred firms for £9bn upgrade

Five contractors secure delivery roles in new long-term delivery alliance

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Colas sells Allied Infrastructure to DJ Civils

Growing Kent contractor acquires airport specialist

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Go-ahead for 260 homes at former Chorlton shopping centre

Ten storey block to replace ageing Manchester suburb shopping precinct

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Crown Estate lodges plan for 4,000-home East Hemel new town

Plans in for twin neighbourhoods, four schools and 1.8m sq ft of work space

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HG Construction hits 8th Gateway 2 win as approvals accelerate

Builder ends year on a high with nod for 24-storey London student tower

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Thirty arrests after immigration raid on Swindon site

Indian and Albanian workers detained after swoop on warehouse under construction

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Partnerships powers Higgins into £1.1bn workload

Turnover rockets 51% to £315m as cash rises and debt sharply falls

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Graham lands £59m Loughborough student halls job

Work to start early next year on five-block scheme of over 550 beds

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City of London planning applications hit 10-year high

Eight new towers and 20 major schemes set to reshape the skyline

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Leeds iconic Tetley brewery building revamp approved

92-year-old art deco brewery to reopen with market hall, event space and new offices

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Panattoni buys Northampton site for £75m logistics scheme

Planning application imminent for 340,000 sq ft warehouse

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Government advances single construction regulator plan

Consultation starts on establishing a construction super-regulator

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Civil engineers sound the alarm bell

Rail and road workloads hit hardest in worst CECA trade survey since 2020

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33 firms win £300m SEC fire safety framework

Five-lot deal set to drive compliant upgrades across London and the South East

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Earls Court £10bn rebuild gets full green light

Twin borough approvals clear way for 2026 enabling works on London’s biggest cleared site

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Springfield strikes deal to build homes for power workers

House builder signs first four-year lease deal to house workers on Scottish grid upgrade

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Planning reboot could spare SMEs from Building Safety Levy hit

Government unveils new ‘medium site’ category of 10 – 49 homes with potential Levy exemptions

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Hunt starts for Square Mile £4bn heat network developer

City of London aims to lock in single development partner for decades-long decarbonisation push

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Steel fixer crushed by blockwork wall collapse

Contractor fined £100,000 after worker suffers life-changing injuries

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Conlon Chairman to retire after 38 years

Michael Conlon to hand over reigns to Guy Parker at Employee Owned Company

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Cala names industry veteran Tom Nicholson as new CEO

Former Crest and Linden boss to steer house builder through choppy 2026 market

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Yorkshire brickmaker saved in last-minute rescue deal

Private equity deal saves 20 jobs at York Handmade

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HS2 first as giant bridge slid across live motorway

Watch timelapse footage of pioneering 4,600-tonne viaduct installation

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Gilbert Ash breaks ground on £120m Wilde aparthotel

Staycity’s biggest London scheme gets underway in Shoreditch

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Bennett wins brace of retirement home deals

Contractor to build more than 200 apartments for investor Octopus Capital

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Developer showed “total disregard” for site safety

Property firm fined £45,000 for failing to meet basic standards

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Watkin Jones takes £8.7m hit but eyes brighter 2026

A £2bn pipeline and stronger deal flow help rebuild confidence after a year of impairments

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Project manager caught running false invoice scam

Suspended sentence and ban for director after probe into offices to resi scheme

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