Barclays will host clinics across the country to help construction SMEs when the UK leaves the EU next month....

There is “probably close to zero chance” HS2 can be built within its £56bn budget without changes to its scope, a rail expert has told a Lords co...

Recruitment company ARZ Management has been expelled from the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) after it was found to have contravened ...

Getting finance for construction companies has never been harder, according to Laing O’Rourke finance director Stewart McIntyre....

Goldman Sachs has offloaded its 10 per cent stake in Interserve to rebel shareholder Coltrane....

A Morgan Sindall worker’s hand was severed by a biomass boiler he was inspecting at a British Army barracks....

Construction minister Richard Harrington has been handed a list of the market’s four “key areas of concern” in relation to Brexit by the Constru...

Specialist M&E firm EME Installations has gone into administration, with a loss of 62 jobs....

Laing O’Rourke has reported a loss for the third year running after it was hit by further costs on its Montreal hospital job and Brexit-related writ...

Two tower blocks in Portsmouth face demolition after inspections of cladding revealed serious structural problems....

Laing O’Rourke’s accounts for 2018 have revealed the company made a loss for the third year running....

Most people working in the UK and Ireland construction industry don’t believe enough is being done to reduce plastic consumption, a survey has found...

Rail safety investigators have told Network Rail to take on a recommendation it made in 2017 after track workers were sent to parts of the railway whe...

Greater use of offsite in the construction industry could help increase diversity, it has been suggested....

Galliford Try’s Partnership and Regeneration business has been picked as Ealing Council’s development partner for a £275m regeneration....

A planning application for the UK’s biggest fully modular council housing and apartment scheme has been submitted in Leeds....

Spending on HS2 up to the end of the last financial year was £5.5bn, it has emerged....

Rydon Construction and Oliver Connell and Son have been fined a total of £860,000 after a worker died when a temporary platform collapsed and he fell...

Galliford Try is stockpiling key materials to guard against potential importing problems caused by Brexit....

Homes England has announced a loan of £78m to build two new neighbourhoods containing more than 1,500 new homes in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park....

Scottish design and fit-out specialist Havelock International has announced the introduction of a four-day working week during quiet periods....

The final section of the long-delayed Aberdeen West Peripheral Route (AWPR) will open this week, Transport Scotland has announced...

Laing O’Rourke has confirmed its human capital director for Hinkley Point C, Caroline Blackman, has died....

Hitachi hopes it can restart negotiations over site costs at the Wylfa Newydd nuclear plant following the suspension of work on the project, MPs have ...

Exclusive: Skanska UK is in the final stages of planning for a new venture to build modular homes made in partnership with Ikea, Construction News can...

Former Wates business director Michael Holling has joined United Living as operations director for the North and Midlands regions....

House of Commons leader Andrea Leadsom has turned down calls to mandate the inclusion of SMEs in the bill outlining the £4bn restoration of parliamen...

Arcadis’ pre-tax margin plunged to 0.1 per cent in 2018 following writedowns to its business in the Middle East....

Galliford Try’s half-year operating margin decreased from 4.7 per cent to 4 per cent as the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route (AWPR) caused further ...

A lack of certainty around public sector projects promotes unsustainable behaviour and leaves contractors fragile, it has been claimed....

Civils contractors experienced a drop in their workloads in the last quarter of 2018, according to a survey by the Civil Engineering Contractors Assoc...

A worker has died following a fall from the roof of a hotel renovation in Edinburgh....

Weston Homes and Tesco have announced plans for a new store, school and up to 1,400 homes at a site in north-east London....

Nearly £53.5m was spent on the Garden Bridge project before it was scrapped, it has been revealed....

Kier has appointed Phil McDowell as operations director for Kier Construction Scotland....

Interserve developments MD Dougie Sutherland has left its board a week after the company unveiled its new rescue package....

Network Rail is to undergo a major structural reorganisation, which will increase regional responsibilities in a bid to improve performance, it has be...

Ardmore Group saw its pre-tax margin more than double in 2018 to 9.6 per cent....

Ramboll and Bam Nuttall have started work on a 74 m-long wharf in the Antarctic for the UK’s Rothera research station....

Galliford Try Partnerships has appointed Kathryn Pennington as its new project director....

Construction output dropped sharply in December as repair and maintenance work slowed....

Completion of Crossrail must take priority over a possible further expansion of the line, the government has said....

Two companies have been fined after the death of a worker during a lifting operation....

McAleer and Rushe has begun construction on an £82m, 620-room hotel in Paddington, it has been announced....

Just 7 per cent of people believe HS2 will benefit them, a survey has found....

The National Audit Office (NAO) has said the planning system is underperforming and concluded it would be unable to deliver on the government’s pled...

Debates around the levels of private sector involvement in infrastructure delivery should be based more on fact and less on emotion, the managing dire...

Kier topped January’s contract win league table with £434m of work, more than £100m more than second-placed Lendlease....

Skanska CEO Anders Danielsson has made improving the company’s construction margin his number one priority after another year of losses....

The parent company of the demolition firm working at Didcot Power Station when it collapsed in 2016 has made a loss for the second time in its 56-year...

CN understands Network Rail is withholding up to £9m in payments to a Amey / Inabensa joint venture over a costs dispute for work on the Great Wester...

Crossrail’s new leadership team is giving a far better ’quality and quantity’ of information to the mayor of London and Transport for London (Tf...

Almost a third of EU nationals working in the construction industry have considered leaving the UK because of Brexit uncertainty, a survey has found.�...

Cargiant has called for an inquiry into the development commission overseeing the regeneration project at Old Oak Common....

Weak economic growth and political uncertainty are dampening construction activity, according to construction intelligence provider Glenigan....

HS2 has drawn up plans that could see a series of towers up to 20 storeys high built next to its £1bn Old Oak Common station....

A row has broken out over claims of a failure to offer financial support to Dundee-based contractor McGill & Co prior to its collapse earlier this...

Tottenham Hotspur FC has confirmed its new stadium will not be ready for the beginning of March....

A roofing company and its director have been fined £50,000 after the death of an employee working at height with no scaffolding....

Former chief executive of Multiplex UK and Europe Jayne McGivern has joined the board of Cairn Homes....

Administrators for Dundee-based contractor Land & Building Services (LBS) have blamed the collapse of McGill & Co for its insolvency....

The first details of a deleveraging plan to save Interserve were released by the company this morning....

Transport for the North (TfN) has unveiled plans for £70bn of investment in road and rail projects by 2050, which would see the creation of some 850,...

The majority of subcontractor packages on the Royal Liverpool University Hospital are yet to be signed off, more than a year after work on the project...

Glasgow City Council has ditched plans for a rail link between the city centre and the airport in favour of a shuttle system....

Projects backed by Balfour Beatty, Vinci, Bam Nuttal, Keltbray and Buro Happold are among those chosen to share more than £13m in government grants f...

Weston Group subsidiary Weston Logistics has opened a £12m housebuilding factory in Braintree, Essex....

Work is set to restart on a £21m residential scheme in Liverpool Waters, which had been on hold since the demise of contractor Forrest Construction i...

Actavo has appointed Iain Eddie as global chief operating officer for global industrial and modular building services....

Property developer Allied London and its construction partner Lendlease have announced the four contractors that will deliver the MEP framework for th...

Mace chief executive Mark Reynolds has urged the government to keep goods flowing into the UK unhindered, or risk work stalling on construction sites....

Housing minister James Brokenshire has announced a further £497m in affordable homes funding, designed to help build over 11,000 homes....

Former U+I creative director Martyn Evans has been appointed non-executive chair of Croydon housing developer Brick by Brick....

Payroll company Hudson Contract Services has lost a High Court appeal over its eligibility to pay the industry’s training levy....

The chair of the National Infrastructure Commission, Sir John Armitt, has warned MPs that the £4bn bill to restore the Houses of Parliament will “...

British Land has secured planning approval for the next building in its £1.5bn Broadgate Campus redevelopment....

Construction technology companies Geniebelt and Aproplan have announced a merger to create a new digital platform called LetsBuild....

It is vital that firms start talking within their supply chains to mitigate against the risks of a no-deal Brexit, the Construction Leadership Council...

The majority of construction firms working on projects in Qatar and the UAE are “failing” to protect workers’ rights, according to a report fro...

Dame Judith Hackitt has confirmed her support for the government’s flammable cladding ban and called for a change in attitude within the constructio...