Consultants are predicting a marked return to package-based procurement models as developers seek to push forward with big-ticket commercial schemes without locking into risky lump sum deals. McBains’ Summer 2025 Construction Market Report said that confidence was...

Contractor Andrew Scott has landed the pre-construction role on Swansea’s flagship city centre office scheme next to the former St David’s Shopping Centre. Swansea Council has appointed the contractor to complete detailed designs and market testing for the five-storey...

Regional contractor Knights Brown has secured a £29m contract to deliver the last missing piece of Poole’s waterfront tidal defences in Dorset. The 1.5km barrier along the eastern side of Holes Bay will safeguard more than 570 properties now and over 2,000 at risk in...

Vinci’s combined UK construction operations bounced back into the black with a £64m pre-tax profit last year from a £6.4m loss in the previous year. A strong performances from its highways, materials and civil engineering businesses drove the recovery at the...

Watkin Jones has signed a development partnership to deliver 200 purpose-built student accommodation flats in Bristol. Designed by architect Chapman Taylor, the Freestone Road project will regenerate a disused embankment site bordering the railway approach to Temple...