West London Partnership prepares to start Bollo Lane blocks

CGI of blocks of flats planned for Bollo Lane Ealing London Borough Council’s planning committee has…

MV Kelly orders £11m of dumper trucks

Thwaites sales manager Andy Sabin (left), BTE Plant Sales managing director Rebecca Bryson (centre) and MV…

Major project starts dry up

According to data gathered by construction market analysts Glenigan, there was some growth in the number…

Egis adds railway electrification boutique

Overhead Line Engineering Limited (OLE) is specialist railway electrification design and engineering consultancy with a dozen…

Colas warned over train derailment

A train derailed near Walton-on-Thames last year because a section of redundant rail that had been…

Preferred bidder named for Stoke regeneration scheme

artist’s impression of the Etruscan square scheme in Stoke-on-Trent Stoke-on-Trent City Council has granted preferred bidder…

GMI begins work on £31m Grimsby regeneration project

Outside Fresney Place shooping centre are (left to right) centre director Amanda Austin, Cllr Philip Jackson,…

Careys cuts numbers

Staff numbers were cut 24% during the year Family-owned construction subcontracting group Careys made a pre-tax…

Network Rail fined £3.75m for track worker deaths

Network Rail employees Michael Lewis and Gareth Delbridge were part of a crew working on the…

McLaren signs for Bank station office scheme

CGI of the 10 King William Street development Property developer Helical and Places for People –…

JCB lands £65m Dutch deal

Wheeled excavators ready for despatch to Boels from JCB Heavy Products in Uttoxeter Netherlands-based Boels Rental…

Cala Homes opens Southern division

Cala Southern managing director Rod Martin Cala Southern will spearhead the company’s westward expansion, across Dorset,…

CITB says apprenticeship starts need to triple

The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) is calling on employers to ramp up their apprentice intake.…

Steelwork contractors call for Britain first tendering

Belgian specialist Victor Buyck Steel Construction was the steelwork subcontractor for Suffolk County Council’s Gull Wing…

Getting the paperwork right

Solicitor Gordon Chan from Irwin Mitchell’s construction & engineering team reports on last month’s judgment of…

Lunn lands Leeds housing scheme

CGI of The Island Site on the Queenshill estate Work is about to start on a…

More London pipe work for Barhale

Barhale will deliver the Victoria Phase Two water main upgrade from Eaton Square (shown here) to…

Construction labour rates up 8.6% in past year

Latest figures from Hudson Contract, the construction payroll services specialist, show average weekly earnings for self-employed…

New MD for Suffolk house-builder

Joshua Hopkins Joshua Hopkins has been promoted from land director to managing director at Denbury Homes.…

New Scotland director at Barratt Redrow

Alison Condie Alison Condie has taken over as Barratt Redrow’s Scotland managing director from Douglas McLeod,…

Isle of Wight showcases speedy building

Gibbs Timber Frame erected three houses in a day at Newport’s Three Oaks development Sovereign Network…

Graham lands £100m Kirkstall flats contract

CGI of the Dyecoats development in Kirkstall Latimer’s Dyecoats is a mixed-use project on Kirkstall Road…