construction news

Graham has fallen-out with subcontractors on two major residential jobs in Manchester. Specialists have contacted the Enquirer after disputes on the Ellesmere Street and Ancoats projects in the city. The £27.5m Ellesmere Street project to create 232 apartments across...

Rochdale Council has started prequalifying firms to build a 2.5km direct link between the M62 and South Heywood. The new link road will open the way for Russell Homes to build up to 1,000 houses and 1.5m sq ft of commercial space on green belt land in Greater...

Arup chief operating officer Dr Alan Belfield will take over as chairman of the consulting group in April. He succeeds Gregory Hodkinson who completes his five-year term at that date, the maximum tenure for chairman of Arup. Belfield will be leading Arup’s...

Formation Construction Limited has been fined £300,000 after a worker was killed in a site fall. Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard how, on 4 November 2015, a Formation employee was using a concrete breaker at Tech West House in Acton to make an opening for a...

Joint venture developer Crossfield Exclusive is to restart the stalled former Baltic House development in Liverpool after revised plans received consent. The firm bought the Norfolk Street site, in the city’s Baltic Triangle, out of liquidation late last year with...

Kent-headquartered contractor, United Living, has mad a strong start to the year bagging more than £25m worth of housing maintenance and refurbishment contracts across the South East. Its 152-strong southern refurbishment team has secured a £6m job with the University...

Growth in workloads within the commercial and industrial segments have come to a standstill for the first time in six years. The latest RICS Construction and Infrastructure Market Survey points to a broad-based slowdown in the pace of output growth as political...