Latest Constuction News

NG Bailey drops BESNA plans

Major contractors to look overseas this results season

Smaller contractors could win in PFI shake-up

Crossrail chairman defends project from station upgrade criticism

Crossrail bans unsafe lorries

Travis Perkins reports 37pc profit boost in 2011

Barratt sales up 22pc in first two months of 2012

Galliford Try dividend doubled as profits soar 89pc

Knight Harwood tipped for Bond Street auction house

CBI renews calls for infrastructure Budget push

MoD advertises £4.35bn FM contracts

Feed-in Tariff Supreme Court appeal to go ahead

Davis Langdon chief Jeremy Horner resigns

Carillion chosen to lead £75m revamp of Gatwick pier 5

Ex-Rok boss Garvis Snook launches property repairs business

London’s £12bn office pipeline at risk

Morgan Sindall 2011 profits fall as public sector bites

Spring start for Bouygues on £22m Essex student PPP

BESNA bosses seek meeting with Unite general secretary

Boots head of storecare handed £4.5bn education brief

Bam to build £9m free school in Bradford

Lovell inks £27m contracts 15 months after being named preferred bidder

Graham selected for Port of Grimsby £25m upgrade

Lend Lease European profits fall by half

Laing O'Rourke £76m affordable housing scheme gets green light

Birse Civils signed up for £14m in new work

Kier/Bam £100m Hinkley nuclear contract signed

Carillion extends Speedy Hire agreement in four-year £50m deal

Confidence in Scottish construction falls

Morgan Sindall wins £9m London Green Park tube cooling system deal

Unite targets M&E majors after Balfour Beatty U-turn on BESNA

UK and France sign agreements on new nuclear plants

Balfour Beatty pulls out of BESNA

UKCG beefs up safety

London boroughs green light two major regen schemes

Three consortia line up for £600m Mersey Gateway Bridge

Three battle it out for £128m Midland Metro extension

Skanska confirmed for £115m Bevis Marks London job

Treasury warned against ‘dangerous’ part-funding of £560m Northern Hub

Balfour, Interserve among South-west framework winners

Land Sec to build £1bn west London scheme

Willmott Dixon beats Kier to Land Registry refurb job for LSE

Balfour Beatty sparks win right to strike

Sparks halt traffic outside ECA gala dinner

£25 million sports arena to come to market

Morgan Sindall sells fire station PFI share for £3.8m

HS2 appoints Arup/URS to steer on environmental issues

Major contractors group to support SMEs with online school

Infrastructure hits 30-year output high

Skanska to target councils for work

Infrastructure UK chief urges contractors to prioritise supply chain

Private finance not the way forward, says Margaret Hodge

KPMG survey finds 'power lies with buyers in UK'

Contractors seek work assurances as survey shows conditions worsening

Knocking down Battersea chimneys would be worth £470m more to developers, says EC Harris

RICS rolls out environmental benchmarking to restaurants and retailers

Glasgow contractor Donaghy enters liquidation as 175 jobs go

Laing O’Rourke hires NuGen nuclear director as £1bn Hinkley battle hots up

Unions demonstrate in US over UK sparks dispute

Morgan Sindall lands deal to refurbish Liverpool underground stations

NHBC chief exec Imtiaz Farookhi to step down

100 jobs at risk as JP Group calls in administrators

Row breaks out over Luton Airport expansion plans

Government must provide capital boost, says CPA

Colleges must involve industry, says skills body

Treasury signs off £150m Lambeth PFI housing scheme

Zero carbon confusion harming energy efficiency, says report

Bond Street Crossrail timing slips

Infrastructure UK chief to speak at biggest global infra conference

Shepherd returns to site of troubled Berners Hotel scheme in £33m deal

Tax clampdown: builders next on HMRC hitlist after electricians

Contractors sought for £400 million housing contract

RICS calls for tender flexibility and SME support on public procurement

Sparks protest expected at ECA dinner

Five selected for Aberdeenshire capital works

Man dies after being struck by a forklift at Jewson

Developer signs Yorkshire housing agreement

HVCA claims 88pc of workers signed up to BESNA

Protesters camp at Hinkley nuclear site

Scottish £500m infrastructure programme boosted