construction news

Highways England has signed a deal with Costain worth £125m to deliver two key junction upgrades on the A19 in south Tyneside. The A19 Testo junction upgrade and Downhill Lane junction upgrades have been bundled together as a single contract as part of plans to...

Student infrastructure specialist University Partnerships Programme has reached financial close with Exeter University for a major student accommodation development at East Park on its Streatham Campus. The deal means Vinci Construction can now start work on a £91m...

A group of 20 electricians have received their withheld Christmas wages after staging a demonstration outside an east London site. The Unite union said the sparks were engaged by subcontractor JW Morris on a site run by contractor Acom in Hoxton for client IG1 Global...

Norfolk County Council has awarded the contract for Great Yarmouth’s Third River Crossing to a BAM Farrans joint venture. BAM Nuttall and Farrans Construction are joining forces to work on the final design and construction of the lifting bridge creating a more direct...

A track worker removing cables from a rail line near Gatwick Airport station was narrowly missed by a passenger train. The near miss is now being investigated by the Rail Accident Investigation Branch. The worker was on the line just before midnight on 2 December...

Two of the North West’s innovative developers, Peel Land and Property and Urban Splash, have exchanged contracts for a £55m housing venture at Wirral Waters. The deal will see Urban Splash’s modular housing system rolled out for the first time in Merseyside. The...

Amey is helping Northern Powergrid safeguard power to homes across the North East, Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire after it secured a £40m framework with the electricity distributer to carry out overhead line condition surveys. The four-year framework will see...