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Former Mowlem veterans Mike Darling and Ian Posnett have handed over control of their Kent contracting business WW Martin to a management buyout. The deal transfers full ownership of the 148-year-old business and its subsidiaries to an internal management team made up...

An illegal waste site operator has been sentenced after asbestos tiles were found among 10,000 tonnes of construction rubble on a site in Cornwall. Martin Harvey, who operated the illegal site on land he owned at Shepherds Farm, St Newlyn East pleaded guilty and was...

Fit-out specialist 8build has bounced back into profit after shifting its focus to faster-moving, fixed-price contracts and securing a series of high-profile airport jobs. The London-based contractor delivered a £2.2m pre-tax profit for the year to 31 March 2025,...

The government has launched a consultation on sweeping reforms to force construction firms to carry out ‘right to work’ checks for the self-employed as part of a fresh crackdown on illegal migrant working and rogue employers. Contractors hiring workers will be legally...

A Muse-led public-private partnership has unveiled the first housing development sites for its £1bn programme of affordable, low carbon homes. Habiko – the affordable homes partnership with Homes England and Pension Insurance Corporation – has picked Chester and...

Data centre developer DC01UK has sold its South Mimms site in Hertfordshire to global operator Equinix in one of the largest UK infrastructure and real estate deals in recent years. The sale paves the way for a £3.9bn investment to build one of Europe’s biggest and...

Leeds City Council has fired the starting gun on bidding for the £1.5bn YORbuild Major Works framework renewal. Eight existing contractors – BAM, B+K, Galliford Try, Tilbury Douglas, Kier, Morgan Sindall, Wates and Willmott Dixon – face a fight to hold...

Amazon has submitted plans to build a 330,000 sq ft data centre complex at Iver in Buckinghamshire. The tech giant wants to demolish all existing buildings at the Ridgeway Distribution Centre and redevelop the site into a high-security, two-storey data facility...