construction news

A fair trade body is reconsidering a ruling which imposed tariffs on Chinese excavators imported into the UK. The Trade Remedies Authority (TRA) ruled last year that tariffs of up to 40% should be imposed following a complaint from JCB about the dumping of diggers by...

Morgan Sindall Construction has been appointed by Cambridgeshire County Council to build a new secondary school at the Alconbury Weald development. The £37m Alconbury Weald Church Academy will will sit alongside Prestley Wood Academy SEND School, which was delivered...

Equans Regeneration continues to battle heavy losses from its retreat from the new build housing market. But the firm, bought by French construction giant Bouygues in 2022, said its new core focus on student new build, energy retrofit and housing refurb markets was...

ACS Construction Group has been appointed principal contractor for the expansion work at GE Vernova’s HVDC Transformers Facility in Stafford. ACS has been working on a smaller part of the site since September and has now been awarded the main works deal which is...

The scale of delays plaguing the Building Safety Regulator’s gateway approval process has been laid bare in the first set of published official figures. Latest data shows a rising backlog of projects snared up in the lengthy process, with applications flooding...

Monthly construction output slipped by 0.6% in May as falling repair and maintenance activity dragged the overall figures down. The dip follows three straight months of growth, including a 0.8% rise in April, but was driven entirely by a 2.1% fall in repair and...