construction news

The government is promising £1.5bn of additional funding to improve accommodation for the UK Armed Forces. Its wide ranging Strategic Defence Review (SDR) will also see construction of at least six new munitions factories. The accommodation cash will be spent on...

Thames Water is calling on tunnelling specialists to deliver a key part of its £242m Teddington Direct River Abstraction project. The utility giant has issued a formal tender for the tunnelling and connection works after a year of market engagement. The twin-tunnel...

Plans have been submitted for the UK’s largest data centre development near Scunthorpe in Lincolnshire. The massive AI data centre campus would deliver over 1.5m square metres of hyperscale floorspace across a campus of 15 data halls and is expected to cost around...

The government has seized control of planning to fast-track two major reservoir schemes in eastern England. Environment Secretary Steve Reed has declared the £5bn Lincolnshire and Fens Reservoir Programme ‘nationally significant’, giving ministers powers...

Hackney Council has launched early market engagement for a major £150m regeneration of the De Beauvoir Estate in east London. The De Beauvoir New Homes Project aims to deliver up to 341 homes alongside commercial space and sweeping public realm upgrades. Around 45% of...

The first section of platform has been installed in the underground box at HS2’s Old Oak Common station. All six high-speed platforms are being installed at the same time, with construction taking place from either end of the station box. They are laid out as three...