construction news

Plans to build a second runway at London’s Gatwick airport have finally got the green light after a decision was delayed in February. Heidi Alexander, transport secretary, approved the scheme with conditions on noise abatement and public transport provision. Gatwick...

Investment giant AXA IM Alts has been granted planning permission to redevelop half of the BBC Elstree Centre TV and film studio. Proposals include transforming current studios and ancillary spaces into 266,000 sq ft of modern media campus for the high-end TV and...

A leading South West contractor has been fined after an employee was crushed to death when a 1.8m high retaining wall collapsed onto him. Gary Anstey, 57, from Bristol, was working for H. Mealing & Sons Limited at a construction site at a school in Bath when the...

Modular bathroom specialist Taplanes is set to go into liquidation. The Harrogate based firm has been in business since 1979 and specialised in the manufacture and supply of bathroom and shower pods across all sectors. Assets of the £3m turnover business including a...

Henry Boot has been appointed development partner for a £162m aviation technology campus at IWM Duxford, near Cambridge. The 25-acre “Duxford AvTech” scheme will deliver 435,000 sq ft of innovation space aimed at accelerating low and zero carbon aircraft technology....