Wates’ profits edged up by 1 per cent on slightly reduced turnover in 2018, its latest results show....

Morgan Sindall Investments has been named as Brentwood Borough Council’s preferred joint-venture partner to deliver a long-term programme of develop...

Durkan has brought in a new firm of architects after winning the D&B package on Peabody’s £1.5bn Thamesmead estate....

The collapse of fit-out firm Paragon Interiors has left freelance site managers with personal loses as high as £80,000, Construction News has learne...

A plumber who previously won a legal case proving he should be considered an employee rather than a subcontractor has failed in a bid to win holiday p...

Wates is no longer targeting becoming a £2bn-turnover company, its chief executive has told Construction News....

The National Federation of Builders (NFB) has warned that a no-deal Brexit would be worse for construction than the 2008 financial crisis....

Almost all previous liabilities held by Interserve have been carried over to the new business despite the firm falling into administration, the contra...

An investigation by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has determined the BBC’s procurement approach to the rebuilding of the Eastenders set (E20) ...

Kier has reported a pre-tax loss of £35.5m in the first half of its financial year....

Thames Water has awarded eight-year contracts, worth £200m, to three suppliers in a bid to locate and remedy 15 per cent more leaks by 2025....

Industry experts expect significant changes in Kier’s management as it carries on its turnaround programme....

A modular housing factory with the potential to create 2,000 homes a year has opened in Cheshire....

The delayed delivery of Crossrail has cost Transport for London (TfL) £600m, it has been confirmed....

Interserve’s refinancing is a “positive outcome” for customers, the supply chain and employees, a Cabinet Office minister has said....

Swansea Council staff have replaced Dawnus workers on the troubled Kingsway dual carriageway scheme in the city centre....

Bank station’s Cannon Street entrance has been linked to new Northern line tube tunnels, following a “breakthrough” on Friday, Transport for Lon...

A £100m, 780-home neighbourhood in Derry is set to be approved next week by Derry City and Strabane District Council planning committee....

Kier has unveiled former Wates boss Andrew Davies as its new chief executive officer....

Analysts have given their initial reactions to the appointment of former Wates boss Andrew Davies as Kier’s new chief executive officer....

Sir Robert McAlpine commercial director Martin Pitt has left his role after nearly four years with the firm....

Amey, Costain, Coffey, Kier and Murphy are among the contractors to have won spots on the first two lots of Severn Trent’s £2bn AMP7 investment fra...

FM firm Mitie is considering a bid for Interserve’s facilities management business....

Subcontractors and trade creditors to Interserve have been reassured that outstanding debts to the business will be honoured despite the parent compan...

Designs for a redevelopment of Birmingham Moor Street station to meet extra demand when HS2 opens in the city have been revealed....

More than 290 sites across the UK are opening their doors this week to encourage young people to seek a career in the construction industry....

Massive housing demand, combined with a transparent and responsive system, means that the UK will remain a centre for real estate investment, it has b...

A Norwich-based repair and maintenance company has been fined after an employee fell 2 m while working on a roof....

It is a myth that the government has been totally distracted by Brexit, the head of the British Property Federation has claimed....

Deputy mayor of London for transport Heidi Alexander (pictured) has revealed Transport for London is considering introducing a £1.7bn metro line to s...

Capstone Building Ltd has been fined £900,000 after a bricklayer died following a wall collapse....

From the resignation of CEO Adrian Ringrose in November 2016 to its rescue plan being vote down in March 2019, CN charts the key events that led to ...

Interserve will file papers at the High Court for the parent company to be placed into administration....

Homes England has launched an online tool to help display plots of land that are ready for housebuilding, in what it says is a bid to speed up develop...

Network Rail chief executive Andrew Haines admitted Network Rail has been “asleep at the wheel” and has previously not “stepped up” to improve...

Briggs & Forrester will increase its revenue to £330m over the next three years, according to group chief executive Paul Burton....

Exclusive: Dawnus Construction has filed to put the entire group and all its subsidiaries into administration, Construction News has learned....

Bam Nuttall and Ramboll have reached a major milestone on the Antarctica wharf project at Rothera Research Station....

The Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC) has been awarded £250m for infrastructure at its west London site....

Staff at Paragon Interiors have been made redundant following the collapse of a proposed deal by a London property firm to buy the firm from administ...

Balfour Beatty’s operating margin for its UK construction business almost doubled to 1.5 per cent in 2018 as the company completed another phase of ...

Subcontractors working on a road improvement scheme in Manchester downed tools and blocked a main road with equipment after alleging that they had no...

Leeds City Council is seeking developers to build high rise-office space on a 1.1 ha site in the city centre....

The chancellor Philip Hammond confirmed in the spring statement that government has launched a consultation to consider how PFI will be replaced....

A £600m regeneration of Old Kent Road has been given the green light by Southwark Council....

Balfour Beatty, Vinci and VolkerWessels have been shortlisted seven times each in this year’s Construction News Awards....

Collapsed contractor McGill & Co has been sold to a local property tycoon, administrators confirm....

Osborne chief executive Andy Steele has said the industry “can’t afford” to tackle late payment under the current market climate....

Morgan Sindall’s maintenance division has been awarded a five-year repairs and maintenance contract for St Albans City and District Council....

A company has been fined £400,000 after a worker was killed by an overhead power line strike in a “tragic and wholly avoidable” incident....

Dorset-based contractor Wessex Building Services has entered administration....

CITB has announced the appointment of two new directors, including Keltbray training and development director Holly Price (pictured) to its board....

Bradford Council has released its business case for the proposed Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) to service the city....

Interserve’s largest shareholder has suggested it could buy the firm out of insolvency and warned against a pre-pack sale of the firm to lenders, ac...

Gwent’s police and crime commissioner is looking to terminate a private finance initiative (PFI) contract 15 years early....

Paragon Interiors has been sold to an unnamed buyer, according to reports....

ISG has bagged a £50m contract to deliver a hotel and residential scheme in London’s West End....

The offshore wind industry has secured a sector deal with government that could give it access to a maximum of £557m in subsidies....

Kier’s net debt ended 2018 £50m higher than previously expected, the company revealed in a surprise trading update this morning....

Interserve’s largest shareholder has threatened to sue the company’s executives over their handling of its refinancing....

The new Tottenham Hotspur stadium will open next month, the club has announced....

James Duffett has been appointed as Lovell’s new regional managing director for South Wales and the South West....

Mace topped the league for contract wins by value in February thanks to its appointment on the redevelopment of Euston Station for HS2....

The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) has announced a 30 per cent increase in apprenticeship funding....

A partnership between Legal & General and Bell Hammer has been selected to deliver a 2.2 ha regeneration in Bath city centre....

Materials supplier SIG returned to profit in 2018 on the back of a turnaround programme that involved the sell-off of six of the group’s businesses....

Story Contracting has appointed Emma Porter as construction director....

Haringey Council has put plans in place for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club’s new stadium to hold test events this month....

Peabody has been appointed to build more than 1,000 homes on the former Holloway Prison site....

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A former Balfour Beatty managing director has been appointed as chief executive of a façade specialist....

Plans for a £150m regeneration of Huddersfield have been outlined by developer Ska....

A plant operator who caused £1m worth of damage when he ploughed a digger into new bungalows has been sentenced to four years in prison....

A Countryside and L&Q JV has been given the green light for a 3,000-home regeneration on the site of the former Ford factory in Dagenham, east Lon...

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Mace has appointed a former Carillion director to lead its strategic advisory services. ...

Costain announced today that Andrew Wyllie will leave Costain in May after 14 years as chief executive of the firm....

The director of a failed contractor hired to build two major projects in the £200m redevelopment of Liverpool’s Chinatown has been disqualified for...

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Construction News has launched its annual mental health survey for the third year running to investigate the mental health of the industry’s workfor...