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Story Contracting staff braced for rail job losses
Work coming through slower than expected from Network Rail
Ballymore submits two plans for 3,700 East London homes
Construction could start in 2025 on Thames Road and Knights Road schemes
Government buys back over 36,000 military homes
Public ownership deal to release wave of upgrade and new build work
Blackpool council steps in on failed developer’s £300m scheme
Blackpool Central site clearance to start in the New Year as hunt starts for new developer
Brookfield submits retro-first London office plan
Milton Gate plan for Square Mile will hike space by nearly 50%
Bowmer + Kirkland gets start date for £100m Siemens site
Construction to begin early next year on Chippenham scheme
Torsion sells under-construction Leeds BTR scheme
Concrete frame due to start soon on 300-apartment complex
Go-ahead for City of London’s tallest tower
1 Undershaft building will equal the Shard in height
Boot strikes JV deal to build £1bn of logistics schemes
New mid-box JV seeded with £100m trio of start-up projects
Rayner to rip-up environment red tape for new schemes
Developers can pay into new Nature Restoration Fund
Bid race starts for £200m North Eastern universities deal
Selected firms will deliver minor works in Tees Valley, Durham, Northumberland and Tyne & Wear
Land remediation plans go in for huge Ravenscraig site
Work will see the extraction, recycling and backfilling of over 2million cubic metres of material
Contract awards fall but data centres to drive 2025
Disappointing end of year but new work pipeline strong with data centres leading the way
Construction T Level scrapped due to lack of demand
Courses canned after less than 100 sign-up for latest round
Five firms clinch £300m Greenwich Uni framework deal
McLaren, Wates, Morgan Sindall, Vinci and Willmott Dixon secure places
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Hill Group strikes first Build to Rent deal
House builder agrees finance with Lloyds Living to start Stevenage scheme
Construction output hit by fall in repair and maintenance
Industrial and commercial new work grows despite wider fall in activity
Wates transfers pension scheme to “superfund”
Pension management specialist Clara to take charge of £210m fund
Muse hires new development director for North West
Tom Darby joins from developer Bruntwood
Bid rigging probe launched into school repair work
Firms raided this week with focus on roofing contracts
McLaren hires ex-ISG regional boss for north east expansion
Andrew Beaumont becomes MD of new Yorkshire and North East business
Government commits to four new prisons in seven years
£2.3bn pledged for new prison build programme
Road and rail delays hit revenue at Van Elle
Turnover drops 5% as markets remain challenging for piling specialist
Boot reports ‘noticeable improvement’ in planning system
Government planning reforms already unblocking council planning
Go-ahead to revamp former London city hall
Project will straighten the building's leaning profile with terraces to every level
United Living to divert Midlands gas pipeline
600m pipeline diversion clears way for M54 to M6 link road construction
Credit insurance saves Billington from ISG hit
Steel specialist puts on extra shifts at its plants to cope with demand
M&E specialist Dodd doubles profit on retrofit surge
Family-owned Telford specialist delivers record revenue of nearly £250m
Go-ahead for 800-home Croydon dual towers
One Lansdowne Road build to rent scheme to cost £260m to build
Construction inflation set to return raising tender prices
End of 2024 to mark the bottom of present inflationary trough
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