Wet winter and nervous clients hit construction workloadThe construction industry endured a soggy and sluggish start to the year, with official figures showing output continued to slide in the three months to January as wet weather and weak business confidence hit activity.
Total construction output is estimated to have fallen by 2% over the three-month period, reinforcing concerns that t…
Cardiff clears path for Wales’ tallest towerPlans to build a 50-storey skyscraper in central Cardiff that will become the tallest building in Wales have gained planning.
REAP 3, a subsidiary of specialist build to rent developer BlueCastle Capital, aims to replace its previously approved 35-storey scheme with a much taller mixed-use tower next to Cardiff Central Station and the Principality…
VolkerFitzpatrick wins Didcot Science BridgeVolkerFitzpatrick has been awarded the contract by Oxfordshire County Council to build the Didcot Science Bridge.
It is the latest deal under a £332m scheme to improve infrastructure around Didcot.
GRAHAM is undertaking the detailed design of the Culham river crossing and the Clifton Hampden bypass elements of the scheme.
VolkerFitzpatrick w…
Former facade boss Lee Marks joins SkanskaLee Marks is joining Skanska UK next week as Executive Vice President and new leader of the Building business.
He will take over the reins over the next few months from Terry Muckian who will assume executive responsibility at the Infrastructure operations and Cementation Skanska.
Marks’ last major industry role was as COO at facade speciailist…
Green light for Sheffield Cole Brother store revivalUrban Splash has secured planning approval to revive Sheffield’s landmark Cole Brothers department store, kick-starting the transformation of one of the city centre’s most prominent vacant buildings.
The Grade II-listed 1963 building at Barker’s Pool will be converted into a mixed-use destination combining leisure, food and drink, reta…
UK’s biggest AI data centre plan approvedPlans to build the UK’s largest data centre scheme near Scunthorpe in North Lincolnshire have gained outline approval.
The massive AI data centre campus would deliver over 1.5m square metres of hyperscale floorspace across a campus of 15 data halls and is expected to cost around £7.5bn to build.
This makes it one the most ambitious digita…
Vistry boss buys £893k shares after stock slideVistry chairman and CEO Greg Fitzgerald has moved to back the business with his own money, snapping up £893,000 of shares just days after the house builder’s stock was hammered on margin fears and news of his retirement.
Fitzgerald bought 219,377 shares at £4.072 each yesterday, lifting his total holding to 1,509,167 shares, equal to around…
CITB accused of cutting cash for small contractorsThe CITB is coming under fire again after announcing more changes to how it hands cash back to contractors.
From April only micro, small, and medium size employers can use the Employer Networks funding route.
The annual budget for the programme has been set at £11.5m for the upcoming financial year with an annual cap on claims for smaller firms…
£25m Dartford town centre housing job heads for tenderDartford Borough Council is preparing to launch the contest for a contractor to deliver a £25m town centre housing scheme after submitting a planning application for the long-awaited Westgate Village redevelopment.
The council has lodged plans to transform the derelict former Co-op site between Spital Street and Hythe Street into a new…
Galliford back in affordable housing with £28m Chester jobGalliford Try has secured a £28m contract to deliver 126 social rent flats at the City Place development in Chester for Clarion Housing Group.
The job marks the contractor’s first standalone affordable housing scheme exiting the sector over six years ago as part of the terms of a deal with Vistry to buy its affording housing and Linden…