construction news

McLaren Construction has been appointed by developer Global Holdings Management Group to build its 100,000 sq ft Xylo building in Clerkenwell The nine-storey scheme in central London will be the UK’s largest all-timber frame office building. Following the completion...

The joint venture between Helical and TfL’s property company Places for London has confirmed start dates for major overstation residential schemes at Paddington and Southwark tube station. Helical also revealed this morning it is looking at further schemes through its...

House builder Hill has broken ground at its planned 166-home harbourside neighbourhood at Baltic Wharf in Bristol. Hill is delivering the project on Spike Island in joint venture with Goram Homes, the city council’s development arm. The public–private partnership has...

Car dealer-turned-developer Hartwell has secured planning for a £100m regeneration of the former Phoenix ironworks in Digbeth. The Phoenix Yard scheme will turn a 2.8-acre brownfield plot off Coventry Street and Digbeth High Street into 260,000 sq ft of media,...

Plans have been unveiled to build a £59m leisure centre and council HQ on a former mining site in Swadlincote, South Derbyshire. The complex is earmarked for Cadley Park, with work hoped to start as early as September next year. Designed by CPMG Architects, the scheme...

Expanding facilities management firm Bellrock has acquired installation and maintenance specialist MW Lift Services. Newcastle based MW Lift Services provides lift installation, refurbishment, maintenance and 24/7 call-out services to a wide range of public and...

Speedy Hire is confident its new commercial agreement with HSS Proservice will help stem losses which continued to mount up in latest results. The Competition and Markets Authority cleared the way for the deal last week which will see Speedy supply hire kit through...