Plans in for Bo’ness expansion

Cala house types Cala Homes (West) is developing a 38.3-acre site on Crawfield Road in Bo’ness…

Work starts on Worcester’s new arts centre

Stakeholders assemble to celebrate start of work A new arts and entertainment centre is being created…

Hospital building programme pushed back 10 years or more

Boris Johnson promised 40 new hospitals by 2030; it now transpires that roughly half of them…

Construction starts rose 20% in 2024

Glenigan monitors construction activity and contract awards across the UK The January 2025 edition of Glenigan’s…

Etag recruits former Saint-Gobain chief

Mike Newnham , Etag’s new chair Mike Newnham has joined Etag from Saint-Gobain, having been chief…

Sheppey leisure centre to get £15m makeover

artist’s impression of how the Beachfields leisure site might look Transformation of the Beachfields leisure site…

Balfour Beatty sells Omnicom to Hitachi Rail

Omnicom captures railway data Balfour Beatty said that the sale to Hitachi Rail would support Omnicom’s…

Plasterboard recycling moves to the next level

Gyproc SoundBloc Infinaé 100, the recycled plasterboard Gyproc SoundBloc Infinaé 100 is described as “a new…

The UK Concrete Show returns for 2025

The UK Concrete Show is the only exhibition dedicated to the UK’s concrete and provides the…

Government kills mandatory solar panels Bill

The New Homes (Solar Generation) Bill, or Sunshine Bill as it was also known, had its…

Mace signs £92.6m contract for Reading weather centre

Artist’s impression of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts The new headquarters of the European…

Van Elle signs £30m eight-year deal

Wood Transmission & Distribution has signed up Van Elle for ground investigation, design and construction activities…

TopHat accounts show how the losses piled up

TopHat ceased trading last November In its penultimate year of trading. Modular house-builder TopHat Industries racked…

Wallace Whittle acquires Davie & McCulloch

Wallace Whittle managing director Allan McGill (left) with Davie & McCulloch directors Ian Oxburgh and Keith…

Local roads branded ‘national embarrassment’ as new funding model demanded

A report from the House of Commons public accounts committee (PAC) today calls out the Department…

Morris & Spottiswood heads east

Eastworks, part of the Clyde Gateway regeneration, and new home of Morris & Spottiswood Morris &…

Robertson and Balfour picked for £333m North Schools Programme

Robertson Construction will work on the new Hazlehead Campus and the refurbished and extended St Peters…

Bowers back in lifting

Bowers & Bowers Holdings, owned by father and son Malcom and Ben Bowers have acquired Scunthorpe-based…

Citi tower refurb costs reach £1bn

Citi bought the tower for £1.2bn in 2019 and is spending nearly as much on revamping…

Bouygues cements R&D agreement with Ecocem

image from www.ecocemglobal.com Bouygues Construction is putting Ecocem’s ACT technology through its laboratories, with the two…

Architects support licensing scheme for contractors

The argument for licences rests on the belief that if Rydon had a licence this would…

Double-digit growth for Northern Ireland

Aecom Northern Ireland director Jody Wilkinson Analysis by Aecom suggests that recent growth in Northern Ireland’s…