construction news

Ready-mixed concrete sales in London have crashed by nearly a third as the capital’s housing slump and high-rise planning delays at the Building Safety Regulator choke demand across the sector. New figures from the Mineral Products Association (MPA) paint a grim...

Genr8 Kajima Regeneration, in partnership with Knowsley Council, has submitted a £200m hybrid planning application to deliver a major regeneration of Huyton Village. The St Michael’s Place scheme aims to breathe new life into the town centre. Phase one will be...

McAleer & Rushe has bagged a major north London student accommodation job believed to be worth over £30m near Tottenham Hotspurs stadium. The 287-room student living scheme on Tottenham High Road will blend the historic shop frontage of a grade II-lised printworks...

Eight school building projects worth over £270m have moved to the construction phase after the Department for Education signed off contracts for the latest batch of rebuild and refurbishment contracts. Kier landed the biggest job — a £69m rebuild of Upton-by-Chester...

Commercial fit-out and refurbishment specialist The Yorkshire Maintenance Co (Hull) Ltd has acquired a local joinery business saving traditional skills in the area. Beverley-based Cottingham Joinery has been in business 54-years but had been facing recent financial...

Labour supply specialist Danny Sullivan Group has appointed a new legal chief and finance director. Russell Deards joins the firm as General Counsel and Company Secretary, bringing over three decades of legal experience to the business. Deards has been a qualified...

Britain’s armed forces housing is set for a major overhaul under a new £9bn Defence Housing Strategy that will see more than 40,000 military homes modernised or replaced while surplus MoD land is released for over 100,000 new homes. The new 10-year plan will upgrade...

Statom Group North has been appointed by Kier to deliver a comprehensive groundworks and RC structures package at its £684m Glasgow super prison job. Statom will be working on the Central Facilities Building, Front of House Building and several other ancillary...