Kier to put up £40m Salford health building

The new building will form part of the University of Salford’s School of Health & Society…

Designers appointed for East West Rail

Plans for East West Rail (EWR) – designed to improve rail services between Oxford and Cambridge…

JM Clarks Amy Winehouse Back to Black road sweeper

Inspired by Amy Winehouse’s profound impact on music, culture, and London itself, the sweeper is more…

Legislation aims to limit impact of battery explosions

These batteries caught fire while being left to charge It is not just e-scooters and e-bike…

Farrans wins Essex water filter upgrade

Layer water treatment works Essex & Suffolk Water is upgrading its Layer water treatment works (WTW)…

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…