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Construction buyers report fastest downturn since 2020

Double whammy of decreasing new orders and delayed projects

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Bidders day for £15bn schools alliance framework

Online event to set out details of DfE alliancing framework procurement plan

4 hours ago

MPs told safety regulator delays forcing industry job cuts

Industry chief warns housing select committee that BSR is now a main block on meeting housing targets

5 hours ago

£600m delivery partner named for new hospital programme

Mace/T&T JV named programme delivery partner for £37bn new hospital plan

19 hours ago

£230m Southampton waterfront scheme approved

Town Quay includes trio of 25 storey towers around new marina

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Planning green light for £10bn Northumberland data centre

Blackstone-backed project will create 1,200 construction jobs

23 hours ago

Bauhaus block above Southwark Station gets green light

Student accommodation and affordable housing scheme replaces original office plan

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Police arrest plant hire fraud gang

Nine arrests after kit hired “with no intent of ever returning the machines”

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Balfour Beatty boss Leo Quinn to step down

Group Chief Executive to be replaced by consultant AtkinsRéalis chief Philip Hoare

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Galliford Try upgrades target as half-year profits jump 54%

Firm closes in on deal to take on ISG custodial work

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Trespasser dies in crane fall at Willmott Dixon site

Tragedy after man breaks into £60m Manchester science park site

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Ibstock pulls out of GRC cladding market

Materials giant blames subcontractor failures and low margins

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Green light for 1,000-home Wolverhampton city centre regen

Phase one of ECF Smithgate scheme to start this year

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Oval revises Manchester scheme with trio of towers

Flats doubled to 800 at reworked Albert Bridge House project

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More repair work needed at McAlpine problem panel hotel

Contractor looking for long-term solution to loose panels

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Redesign delays hit giant McAlpine car battery factory

Size of first building reduced and steelwork start pushed back

2 days ago

‘Affordable’ HS2 Crewe to Euston plan submitted to Treasury

Industry presses for scaled back Euston terminus and connection to Crewe

2 days ago

Regal submits plan to revive stalled London resi tower

Swiss Cottage project redesigned with second staircase and 237 flats

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Construction boss jailed for siphoning off cash for casino

Money removed from contracting firms before they went under

3 days ago

Muse signs up to £3.2bn Solihull health campus district

Ambitious Arden Cross scheme next to HS2 Interchange advances

2 days ago

Drees & Sommer acquires RSP Consulting Engineers

Expanding consultant sees UK workforce grow to 300

2 days ago

Watkin Jones wins over £50m student digs campus upgrade

Work to start next month on phase 714-bed south London campus

3 days ago

Severfield warns on profits blaming major project delays

Steelwork firm cancels share buyback and steps up cost cutting programme

3 days ago

Administrators go in at aggregates firm Ashville

Administrators from Leonard Curtis now in charge of London based aggregates specialist

4 days ago

Costain start date for £67m Romford flyover replacement

Work to start this summer on Gallows Corner bridge rebuild

3 days ago

North West regional civils contractor in administration

Colin Briscoe Construction employed 25 staff

3 days ago

Work starts on tyres to jet fuel recycling plant

£100m Sunderland plant will produce around 30,000t of liquid fuel

3 days ago

Kier targets £400m of logistics work with Investec JV

Hemel Hempstead site marks start of new venture

3 days ago

Watchdog MPs raise alarm over HS2 Euston station plan

Public spending watchdog red flags ‘no plan or timescale’ for London Terminus

6 days ago

Network Rail fined £3.41m after Surbiton track worker death

30-year-old track worker Tyler Byrne was struck by a passenger train in Surbiton

1 week ago