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Google to build £800m data centre
Google has started construction work on a $1bn (£790m) data centre in…
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Sisk is slashing embodied carbon and optimising offsite-manufactured components in its latest…
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A former government building in the City of London is being painstakingly…
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A blend of building methods is speeding up the construction of a…
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A ‘no-blockwork’ strategy means every detail needs to be planned accurately on…
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Kier and Wates among winners on £346m framework
Kier, Wates and Morgan Sindall’s housing arm Lovell have been named alongside…
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Westminster estate overhaul redesigned with second staircases
A £350m estate-regeneration scheme in central London has been redesigned to meet…
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Whitehall calls for increase in traditional-building methods training
The government wants to increase the amount of construction training on traditional…
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Grenfell cladding firm will not attend victims’ event
The firm that produced the combustible cladding panels which helped spread the…
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Councils scramble to replace collapsed contractor
A London borough is racing to replace recently collapsed Westridge Construction on…
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Contractor pulls out of £100m Southampton regeneration
An embattled regeneration scheme in Southampton has stalled again after the contractor…
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Contractors sign £140m road deal with Somerset Council
Somerset Council has signed three contracts worth a combined £140m for road…
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Kier and ISG among winners on £1bn framework
Kier, ISG and Galliford Try are among the firms to have landed…
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O’Shea boosts margin despite drop in construction profit
CJ O’Shea Group has reported an increased margin, as income from its…
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NHS needs to spend nearly £12bn to fix buildings in England
The cost of making England’s NHS estate fit for purpose has reached…
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Bouygues lands central London student digs
The London School of Economics (LSE) has named a Bouygues UK-Equitix consortium…
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‘Transparent’ home energy assessments to be introduced
A proposed new method for assessing the energy performance of buildings is…
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Portcullis House roof needs full glass replacement
Glass panels in the iconic atrium roof in Parliament’s Portcullis House “require…
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Leicester stadium plans approved with counter-terror conditions
Leicester City’s stadium expansion plans have won formal planning approval – on…
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Bam lines up team for Northumberland super-school job
Bam Construct’s preconstruction services agreement (PCSA) for a new £50.4m ‘super school’…
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RAAC crisis: £35m cost of modular classrooms revealed
The government has named three companies given contracts worth a total of…
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New homes standard to make heat pumps mandatory
All housing built from 2025 should include heat pumps, according to new…
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Construction output declines as ‘storm clouds brew in wider economy’
Construction output dropped by 0.5 per cent in October, newly released official…
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ISG lands £70m life sciences revamp
ISG has been appointed to a major life sciences retrofit job in…
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Winvic to finish £140m Buckingham Group warehouse job
Winvic has taken over as the main contractor on a logistics mega-development…