Paralysed builder stranded on floor for six hours after fallA builder was left paralysed from the chest down after falling through a ceiling at a housing job in Derbyshire.
Father-of-three Andrew Clifford remained lying face down on the floor for around six hours before he was found by a delivery driver. He judged the time by hearing hourly news bulletins from his radio.
Clifford had been working…
Network Rail scales back Liverpool Street station schemeNetwork Rail has gone back to the drawing board to rethink its ambitious Liverpool Street Station redevelopment plan.
The rail infrastructure firm has dropped its development partner Sellar and architect Herzog & de Meuron to recast the ambious project after coming under fire for the massing on large offices above the scheme.
The previous…
Muse JVs with pension fund insurer to build 3,000 homesMorgan Sindall-owned placemaker Muse has formed a long-term public-private partnership with investor Pension Insurance Corporation and Homes England.
The £45m joint venture, named Habiko, aims to deliver 3,000 low-carbon, low-energy affordable homes for the rental market, unlocking institutional investment.
Phil Mayall, managing director at…
TanRo lands latest Clowes business parkTanRo has been confirmed by Clowes Developments as main contractor on its latest business park in Nottinghamshire.
Ground remediation assessments have been completed at the 31-acre Harrier Park site in Hucknall and an extensive four-week clean-up project is now underway at the former Rolls-Royce site.
The boundaries will also now be fully secured as TanRo…
£1.3bn revamp plan for South London shopping centreLandsec has submitted ambitious plans to redevelop 1970s-built Lewisham shopping centre in south London into a new town centre district around an urban meadow.
The 17-acre masterplan will retain parts of the shopping centre while allowing room for 1,700 new homes alongside 445 co-living flats in a 23-storey building and up to 660 student beds…
Skanska signs £197m deal for Mayfair offices jobJoint venture developers Grosvenor and Mitsui Fudosan UK have signed a £197m contract with Skanska to lead the delivery of its planned offices scheme at South Molton in London’s Mayfair district.
The 267,000 sq ft scheme encompasses two new office buildings at 60 Brook Street and 56 Davies Street, restoration of the Running Horse Pub, together…
Cost of fixing unsafe cladding soars to over £16bnIndependent spending watchdog, the National Audit Office, believes it will cost over £16bn to fix unsafe cladding on all buildings over 11m in the country.
The huge cost of widening the scope of buildings needing to fix fire safety problems beyond 18m tall to lower rise building of 11m height was revealed in a new report from the spending…
Scottish Water opens bidding on £800m frameworkScottish Water is inviting tenders to deliver its planned programme of work using innovative ceramic membrane treatment to provide high quality, fresh drinking water.
The water company is looking for several supplier capabilities to deliver the £500m-£800m programme, including MEICA, civil construction and ceramic membrane product suppliers.
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Carbon capture concrete hits London sitesNew technology went into operation today locking carbon dioxide into recycled concrete.
Swiss based carbon removal specialist neustark is working with Aggregate Industries on its first UK site in Greenwich.
Neustark’s innovative technology captures CO2 from biomass sites, liquefies it, then injects it into existing mineral waste streams such as…
Six win £300m cladding retrofit dealOne of the country’s biggest housing associations has named the firms it will use to deliver a £300m programme of cladding retrofit projects.
The Riverside Group has selected Kier Places; United Living (South); Guildmore; Breyer; Mulalley and VINCI Construction to deliver its fire safety retrofit programme, which is now expected to get into full swing.
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