Kier is understood to be in talks to sell its housing maintenance business in fresh moves to reduce its debts. The £250m revenue property services business could fetch up to £30m, according to city sources. News of a potential major disposal comes after last...

Highways England has teamed up with 20 contractors to help improve journeys for road users in Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Cheshire and South Lancashire. The area 10 asset delivery framework covers 10 different specialisms of work and will run for four years....

Highways England is launching a £20m fund to develop new ideas on how future roads will be designed and maintained. Firms are invited to look at the impact of technological advances like low carbon, connected and autonomous vehicles on how the UK’s transport network...

Demolition specialist Coleman has secured the job to tear down the 14-storey Coventry Point office block to prepare the way for the ambitious £300m City Centre South scheme. The firm will demolish the brutalist building – dubbed the city’s ugliest –...

An Essex builder has been sentenced after putting three people at risk of carbon monoxide poisoning. Colchester Magistrates’ Court heard how, in June 2017, Daniel Cox, trading as DEC Roofing & General Building Ltd, was contracted to build a single storey extension...