Kier has started work on the Royal College of Art’s south London student campus in Battersea. Its £56m building project will involve a long 4-storey Studio Building with workshops, teaching and exhibition space alongside an 8-storey Research Building for...

The Royal Liverpool hospital trust has revealed it will pay Laing O’Rourke’s specialist trade contractors direct as part of the deal hammered out to restart work on Carillion’s stalled hospital project. Latest board papers also reveal that Mace has...

Property investor Catalyst Capital has revealed plans to build a new 4-star hotel in Manchester city centre. The 17-storey hotel will boast 278 rooms, a restaurant and bar and will be located in close proximity to Oxford Road train station. Maldron Hotels – part...

Thames Tideway is rolling out a cost-saving plan after having to raid much of the project contingency budget even before tunnelling has started. A catalogue of engineering challenges during cofferdam and shaft construction has left the project team looking for major...

Plans to build a 1.7m sq logistics park within the M25 at Dartford have gained planning for phase one to go-ahead. Developer Bericote Properties and investor Tritax plan to build London’s largest big box logistics park at the Littlebrook former power station site by...