Contractors, sub-contractors, and project managers, as well as representatives from Dubai Municipality and the UAE's labour ministry, attended Expo 20...

West Midland metro mayor Andy Street has urged the government to support Skanska’s appointment on Carillion’s stalled Midland Metropolitan Hospita...

Dufit Interiors has completed and handed over of the showrooms for Fendi Casa, Trussardi, and Baxter, located on Dubai?s Jumeirah Beach Road....

Plans for a new £100m office development in Glasgow’s city centre have been unveiled by property investor M&G Real Estate....

Blue Star has named Sands International as the official distributor of its unitary products range in Saudi Arabia...

A civil engineering and a heating firm have been fined £1m each for the death of a worker after being found guilty of safety breaches....

Developer Stanhope has appointed Stuart Grant as its new managing director....

Barratt Developments has agreed to foot the bill for the replacement of cladding on a residential building in Croydon which failed combustibility test...

Leeds City Council has given the green light to a £350m city centre redevelopment....

Saudi Binladin Group has received a $2.9bn loan to help revive the company, with further cash transfers possible in the near future...

Located in Riyadh?s King Abdulla Financial District, Saudi Arabia's first cinema hosted a special screening of the Hollywood film Black Panther...

The Abu Dhabi subsidiary of the Oman-headquartered contracting company Al Hassan Engineering Co has filed for liquidation at the Abu Dhabi Judicial De...

Saudi German Hospital has signed an agreement to develop a 100-bed specialty hospital on Al Marjan Island, in the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah...

Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD) hosted a workshop to discuss ways of supporting the government of Afghanistan in implementing its development pl...

At least 10 Holiday Inn Express hotels will be built over the next 15 years in Saudi Arabia...

Sales and series production of the new Volvo FL Electric model will begin in Europe next year...

The plant?s engineering, procurement and construction contract has been awarded to a consortium of Fisia Italimpianti and Abeinsa Infraestructuras Med...

Construction workloads held up in the first three months of the year but financial constraints continue to limit expansion, according to the Royal In...

A lack of clarity over future rail work in the UK forced Keltbray to move into the Canadian market, the company’s infrastructure boss has told Const...

Transport for London has won a high court case against an Aecom, Colas and VolkerHighways joint venture over a highways maintenance dispute....

Bam Nuttall has been fined £900,000 after a painter fell 10 ft through a ceiling into a waiting room during a train station refurbishment....

The man who successfully led Bouygues’ HS2 bid has been appointed to head up its UK business....

Interserve chairman Glyn Barker has been named deputy chairman and senior independent director of Berkeley Group....

Agricultural research centre will study soil degradation, water use, and food security...

The 300ha project near Dubai Sports City will be developed in phases over 10 years, and feature 6,500 homes upon completion in 2027...

Kuwait will invest in infrastructure, so it can achieve the government's target of refining two million barrels of crude oil per day...

Nakheel is pushing out of Dubai to build in other UAE emirates such as Sharjah, marking a major change in its strategy to date...

Ground Engineering specialist Aarsleff Group has appointed Kevin Hague as its new managing director....

Hammerson has advised its shareholders to vote against the £3.4bn takeover of rival Intu....

The number of tall buildings planned for London has swelled to more than 500, with the potential to deliver more than 100,000 homes....

Construction insolvencies soared 73 per cent in the first quarter of 2018 compared with the final quarter of 2017, according to data from Creditsafe....

The search has begun to find a chair to oversee the £4bn restoration of the Houses of Parliament....

Spie is to sell its distribution and transmission business after agreeing a deal with Keltbray, Construction News has learned....

Construction materials giant Breedon has acquired rival Lagan Group in a deal worth £455m....

A BRE report on Grenfell Tower has found that the fire would not have spread if the building had not been refurbished between 2014 and 2016....

The CITB will reduce its staff numbers by more than half, its new business plan has revealed....

Dozens of MPs have come out in support of abolishing the existing retentions system, according to the Building Engineering Services Association....

Wates has appointed David Allen as its new chief executive following his five-month stint as interim CEO....

More than 300 staff working on Carillion rail contracts have been made redundant, Construction News has learned....

A man who supplied labour for demolition work has been sentenced to seven years in prison for slavery offences....

Industry leaders have called for a “rapid step-change” in construction practices after it was revealed that Carillion’s total liabilities could ...

Exclusive: Receivers believe Carillion’s construction arm had liabilities of nearly £7bn when it collapsed in January....

Crystal Palace are set to receive approval for the £100m redevelopment of their Selhurst Park stadium....

Two managers of a Warrington-based asbestos removal company have been prosecuted after forging documents to obtain an asbestos removal licence from th...

Interserve will sell all its plant the equipment in a “complete dispersal” in an auction next month with construction auctioneer Ritchie Bros....

McGee Group has reported pre-tax margin of 11.5 per cent for 2017 but saw turnover drop by 26 per cent due to a slowdown in project starts....

Clapham Junction looks set for a major overhaul after Network Rail took back control of the south-west London station earlier this month....

Contractors have been taking on riskier single-stage tenders to try to fill order books as the market cools, according to Turner and Townsend....

Workers on the £745m Aberdeen bypass project have “downed tools” over a pay dispute, Transport Scotland has confirmed....

The CITB has appointed Peter Lauener as its new chairman....

Hochtief is facing a £107m compensation claim from SSE Engineering over a collapsed tunnel after the Scottish Court of Session overturned a previous ...

Interserve has warned shareholders to expect “significant writedowns” to its balance sheet when it publishes its 2017 accounts on 30 April....

Industry trade bodies will deliver a petition to the prime minister later this month calling for the outlawing of contractor-held retentions....

Revisions to ONS data covering July to October 2017 have shown that construction did not enter recession last year....

Gatwick Airport station’s transformation has reached a key milestone after plans were submitted for the project as part of the government’s £30...

A man in his 30s has been seriously injured in an incident at a Stewart Milne Homes site in Aberdeen....

Contractor Shaylor has revealed turnover growth of more than 40 per cent in its latest results alongside a margin of close to 5 per cent....

Ground engineering firm Aspin was owed around £800,000 by Carillion before its holding company was placed into administration, an administrator’s s...

One in four construction workers say they have been exposed to asbestos while two-thirds do not know that it can cause cancer, according to a survey ...

McNicholas has reported a £36.5m pre-tax loss in its latest accounts after being forced to increase provisions on legacy projects....

Carillion staff working in design-based construction roles have been made redundant in the latest round of job cuts, Construction News understands....

More than a third of London’s migrant EU construction workers have not been paid for work while 33 per cent have experienced verbal or physical a...

Turner & Townsend has appointed David Whysall as its new infrastructure boss after Patricia Moore was promoted to UK managing director last month....

Irish construction firm Sammon Group, owed €8m by Carillion, has applied for protection from its creditors as it tries to put together a turnaround ...

Two former senior CH2M directors have landed roles with rival firms following the company’s takeover by Jacobs....

Women are paid nearly a third less than men across the top 100 contractors by turnover, analysis by Construction News has revealed....

Lindum Group’s pre-tax margin jumped to 4.8 per cent in 2017 helped by the performance of its developments arm....

A Rotherham-based construction firm has been fined £70,000 after one its workers suffered life-threatening injuries when they were struck by falling ...

Exclusive: Female employees at the construction industry’s 10 biggest contractors are paid nearly a third less than men, CN analysis of gender pay ...

Transport for London has begun talks over the possibility of extending the Elizabeth line east of Abbey Wood into Kent....

Battersea Power Station Development Company boss Rob Tincknell has resigned after 10 years leading the £8bn development....

A new transport body charged with pushing forward a £70bn programme of investment in the North will officially assume its statutory powers today....

The NHS trust behind the £350m Midland Metropolitan Hospital has said it “sought to prevent” redundancies among Carillion construction staff, acc...

HSS has reported a pre-tax loss of £85.2m on revenue of £335.8m for 2017 as the company commenced a shake-up of operations aimed at reducing costs...

China’s largest developer Country Garden has entered the UK market after purchasing a site in east London with a development value of £400m....

EDF Energy will reconsider plans to build a new multi-billion-pound nuclear plant in Suffolk if it is unable to agree a viable financing model with t...

The boss of a construction firm who hid more than £1m to avoid paying debts has been banned from running companies for eight years, the Insolvency Se...

Weather disruption in March has been blamed for the steepest drop in construction activity since July 2016, according to the latest PMI survey....

Former Lakesmere owner Mark Davey has told Construction News he regrets selling the company in a management buyout in 2015, which led to a “whole ho...

North Midland chief executive John Homer has told Construction News subcontractors have “had enough of getting pushed around” by contractors over...

Galliford Try has lodged a counter-claim over a payment of nearly £3.5m allegedly owed to a collapsed subcontractor....

More Carillion construction staff have lost their jobs in the latest round of redundancies announced by the official receiver....

Loans made by construction company directors to their own businesses shot up 35 per cent in 2017, analysis of Companies House data has revealed....

Police are investigating the death of a woman who was struck by a debris from a crane at a Higgins Homes site last week....

Keller has acquired US geotechnical contractor Moretrench for $90m (£64m)....

US engineering giant Fluor has been formally added to Bam Nuttall and Ferrovial’s joint venture bidding for the contracts to build HS2’s London st...

Austrian rail firm Powerlines has saved around 220 Carillion jobs after it bought out the collapsed contractor’s stake in a joint venture with one o...

North Midland has published its results for 2017 showing growth was hampered by a £7.3m impairment on a legacy contract....

A contractor accused by HMRC of being a “disguised employee” has successfully appealed his case against the tax authority....

Lakesmere founder Mark Davey has revealed to Construction News that he personally lost £15m when the company collapsed last October and was its larg...

Arup has been hired to conduct a structural review of Carillion’s Royal Liverpool Hospital problem job to identify how much additional work it requi...

A woman is in critical condition after she was struck by debris that fell from a crane on a Higgins Homes site in east London....

TClarke’s pre-tax profit jumped 92 per cent to £7.1m in 2017 thanks to landmark projects in London and the South-east, the company has said....

The body representing plant operators has raised serious concerns over the CITB’s forecasting, claiming reported workforce numbers for the sector a...

Galliford Try has secured backers for its £157.6m rights issue of new shares that will help cover rising costs on the problem Aberdeen Western Periph...