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Land Securities says some high streets ‘may never recover’
Developer’s profit halves but firm remains confident on London
Interserve pipeline pushes up to £1bn for 2013
Contractor has won £600m of contracts so far this year
Government launches chief construction adviser search
Business department publicly begins hunt for replacement for Paul Morrell
Horizon nuclear sale 'could take years'
Tory chair of energy committee fears long delay in selling Horizon Nuclear Power after hearing evidence from energy firms
Construction apprentices top satisfaction poll
Over three quarters of construction apprentices say they are very satisfied
Olympic safety success wins Queen's award
Health and safety record of Olympic construction project receives special Queen’s Diamond Jubilee award
Labbad takes new role at Lend Lease
Europe chief executive Dan Labbad appointed Group chief operating officer and will relocate to Australia
Redrow chief ups his stake to 40%
Steve Morgan takes more control of the company after market shuns £80m placing
Mears reports solid trading
Management statement says firm has enjoyed intensive period of new social-housing contracts
Henry Boot notes 'slow improvement' for housing
But firm downplays expectations for construction sector
McLaren set to start on Liverpool project
Five-floor steel-framed store to host new US fashion invasion
Green Construction Board boosted by £1m
Minister pledges to use cash for faster and more in depth work
Eight major heritage projects to share £76m
Maze Prison development among eight schemes to receive Heritage Lottery Fund cash
Construction output revised down to -4.8%
Latest data reveals Q1 construction output figures revised down - dragging overall GDP growth down a further 0.1%
Dream job for Arup in Seoul
Engineering services firm plays centrol role in South Korean commercial development
Government holds back key 2012 construction report
Ministers urged to publish ODA chair’s critique of Olympic marketing rules for non-sponsors
ISG is front-runner for £20m City Tower job
Contractor tipped for Great Portland Estates’ City Tower re-fit
Balfour Beatty promotes McNaughton
Balfour Beatty’s operations boss has been appointed deputy chief executive in place of Anthony Rabin, who is retiring
Imperial War Museum proposals approved
£35m expansion and regeneration scheme wins council’s backing
EDF boss departs amid further nuclear doubt
Commercial director of French energy giant stands down amid continuing uncertainty over future of nuclear new build
Exclusive: PFI project count plunges 85% after policy review
Government refuses to set timeline for new-style PFI despite just two deals reaching close this year
Number of construction firms going bust rises
Rise in insolvencies prompts warning that more 'high profile' firms likely to go bust this year
Balfour Beatty provides few clues on restructure
Contractor says market remains challenging in update to the City
Ground broken for new Shanghai financial centre
Construction starts on Bund business and entertainment hub
Broadgate owners apply for certificate of immunity from listing
British Land and Blackstone risk new heritage battle while unveiling new public realm plans for City complex
Serpentine pavilion designs revealed
Designs by architect Herzog & de Meuron and artist Ai Weiwei unveiled
Exclusive: Cameron in urgent bid to save Green Deal
Prime minister asks Cabinet Office for urgent briefing on how to rescue flagship energy efficiency scheme
Exclusive: Carillion solar job losses rise to nearly 1,200
A further 380 jobs have gone at Carillion Energy Services in the wake of the government’s cuts to the solar feed-in-tariff
Government looking at projects beyond current cycle
Government adviser says pipeline may be extended beyond three years and suggests smaller projects might have a part to play
Davis Langdon alumni launch rival companies
Former Abu Dhabi partners set up business and project consultant, whilst London trio intend to launch this month
Brussels proposals could double public retrofits
Efficiency directive will be considered by the European Parliament in an attempt to meet 2020 energy use targets
Lord's housing plans go back to drawing board
MCC to develop new masterplan as president looks to Trent Bridge for inspiration
Two Chinese consortia eye UK nuclear investment
Chinese consortia want to take over Horizon Nuclear Power
Bristol opts for mayor, but others say no
Birmingham, Manchester and six other cities reject mayoral system in blow to government policy
Selfridges confirms Shard architect role on revamp
Renzo Piano’s appointment to store extension will set the luxury retailer’s agenda for the ‘next century’
Sweett Group bags £19m health jobs
Consultant appointed on Cumbrian community hospital and health centre
Arcadis makes top level appointments
Former EC Harris senior partner David Sparrow among the promotions
UK firms urged to bid for £20bn Brazil projects
UKTI urges firms bid for Olympic, World Cup and mining work
BRE delays retrofit standard
Industry voices concern at 2013 launch date of standard for non-domestic buildings
Green measurement systems inadequate to meet targets
Higher carbon reduction goals for new buildings cannot be assessed reliably, industry warns ministers
Exclusive: Shard architect primed for flagship Selfridges scheme
Renzo Piano set to embark on third high profile London project with major Oxford Street store extension
Listed building projects cancelled after VAT hike
Tax rise is harming industry and economy, says FMB and RIBA
Carillion to complete downsizing by end of the year
Contractor continues with plan to cope with shrinking market
Contractor fined £10,000 over worker's death
Court hears agency worker accidentally killed own father
North East set to showcase contracts
Sir Robert McAlpine and Bernicia Housing Group work up for grabs
Balfour Beatty could shed 600 jobs in restructure
Around 600 jobs could go in Balfour Beatty’s restructure of its UK construction services division
Desperate need for Euro crisis resolution, Bam warns
Bam Construct chief voices fears over ongoing Euro crisis
Bam Nuttall issues £43m counter-claim over Cambridge busway
Contractor’s defence alleges “failings” at project manager Atkins behind dispute
8build bags second museum with Mary Rose project
Fit-out of Tudor warship museum follows Titanic anniversary attraction win
Lord Rogers slams Boris Johnson ahead of election
Chairman of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners claims Conservative mayoral candidate unable to make decisions
Willmott Dixon bags London City & Guilds contract
Firm comes top of the class for Clerkenwell development
The Alan Cherry debate: In pictures
View the highlights from Friday’s debate chaired by George Alagiah with leading figures taking part such as Lord Richard Rogers, Nick Raynsford and Eric Pickles
Bam Group’s UK profit falls a fifth
Profit falls across all three of Dutch construction giant’s UK subsidiaries and down a third at Bam Construct
ID:SR wins KPMG headquarters contract
Interior design group will fit out Manchester city-centre base
New public work pipeline as construction output slumps
Francis Maude makes ‘procurement pledge’ as 3% output drop drags UK economy into recession
AFR appoints two bosses to turn around UK business
Architect promotes studio directors to joint UK managing directors to turn around domestic practice
CITB sets out to mend broken relationship with CSCS
Bodies confirm peace talks after tumultuous year
Sir Robert McAlpine and Laing O'Rourke battle for Fitzrovia job
Contractors seek new hope for ‘NoHo Square’ site
Hinkley nuclear plant could be delayed by two years
Client EDF claims restrictions on lorry movements could hold up completion of the project
Kier acquires Stewart Milne's construction arm
£1m deal involves £15m of contracts and £20m work pipeline
McAleer & Rushe poaches Mivan manager
James Hicken joins rival firm as business development director
Killby & Gayford collapsed with projects worth £29m on site
Firm fell out with Sotheby’s over sub-contractor payments
Lend Lease fined $56m for New York scam
Olympics village developer pleads guilty to overcharging US clients
Ministers seek to boost tunnelling skills
Move comes as government publishes revised public building work pipeline
Funding cut for UK-Chinese 'eco-city' project
‘Frustrating” move will hit Arup, Atkins, Mott, Make and others
Scaffolding boss finishes 100 marathons in 100 days
Matthew Loddy completes grueling test to raise £45,000 for charity
Balfour Beatty wins London Gateway rail contract
Civil engineering division will build rail temrinal for DP World’s London Gateway hub
London landmarks' marathon effort revealed
Construction industry trio close in on £7,500 fundraising target after finishing race in 5hrs 50 mins
RMJM parts company with PR advisor
Troubled architect is “no longer working” with The Big Partnership
ODA declares green infrastructure 'complete'
Authority says London 2012 Energy Centre and press centre solar scheme are finished
EDF boss piles pressure on government over nuclear plans
Head of French energy firm wants guaranteed price for nuclear power which greens oppose as a subsidy
Search begins for new chief construction adviser
Sources say current building tsar Paul Morrell ‘has ruled out’ serving a third two-year term
Redrow slams lenders over NewBuy
Chair Steve Morgan says prime minister’s housing scheme will fail unless banks reduce rates
MPs to quiz energy bosses on nuclear future
Energy and climate change select committee to investigate Horizon sale
London Underground names Bank upgrade shortlist
Three joint ventures and Dragados in running for station upgrade
Greg Barker heckled over Green Deal
Climate change minister booed and interrupted after making a speech at CPA annual lunch
Two firms vie for National Grid estate role
Capita Symonds and DTZ last two standing in race for contract to manage around £400m of National Grid estate
Carillion and Lovell win places on £300m framework
Contractors bag five-year heating maintenance framework
Ken Livingstone backs RIBA manifesto for London
Labour candidate for mayor joins Greens and Lib Dems in pledging support for RIBA’s call for good design
Davis Langdon takes top spot in QS barometer
Gleeds pushed into second place in year ending 31 March
Expert witnesses called in £3.5m Liverpool museum case
Trial over breach of contract allegations expected to last 16 days
Government drops plans for standardised school designs
Industry fears confusion as Gove shifts policy from standardisation to basic design guidance
Boris seeks consultants for London design panel
Consultants sought for design and urbanism procurement panel
British housing slammed as "cramped and poorly planned"
RIBA and Ipsos MORI report into public attitudes highlights dissatisfaction with space
Clear line ahead for Northampton station scheme
Government pledges half of redevelopment’s £20m cost
Parsons Brinckerhoff wins HS2 design brace
Consultant fends off competition from Mott MacDonald, Arup-Systra and Jacobs
Aecom and NBS join forces to launch new BIM service
New firm NBS Schumann Smith will add cost and carbon data to BIM models offered to architects
Babcock pre-tax profit soars 26%
Engineering support services group also reports 14% hike in revenue as it hails ‘record results’
BAM details £51m in schools work
New projects include Bristol and Bucks academies plus primary school
Driver Group buys Trett Consulting for £3m
Global consultant acquires dispute resolution division from Grontmij
Sweett puts back completion date for PFI sale
Consultant previously indicated sale was key for firm to meet profit expectations
Kevin McCloud to champion self-build industry
Grand Designs presenter appointed by National Self-Build Association as £30m government fund announced
Olympic stadium competition delayed until after 2012 Games
Legacy Corporation re-launches competition for operator after just four bids received
RICS flags improving construction sector
Surveyors report increased Q1 activity in face of ONS data which showed 3% contraction
Ministers' flagship growth fund 'shockingly wasteful'
Spending watchdog says says job-creation scheme has spent too much money on too few jobs
Subcontractors to blame for oil spill, says Lend Lease
Contractor mounts defence that shifts blame for faulty system to Overbury and Gratte Brothers
RIBA to include BIM in Plan of Work
The RIBA Plan of Work is set to be overhauled for the first time in 50 years to include BIM processes.
Barratt reports best spring for five years
Housebuilder downgrades debt prediction as reservations soar
Architect's plans for the manor reborn
Grant set to pave the way for Grade I building’s £3.6m restoration
Housebuilders reject green homes proposal
Industry call on government to freeze energy performance targets until new testing standard has been developed
Newcastle joins Green Deal
Warm Up North partnership is second local government group to propose joining scheme
Green schools policy in limbo as launch date draws near
Draft design guidance reveals BREEAM for schools still ‘under review’ just weeks from launch of school building programme
Galliford Try reports home-sales boost
Group sees contracted, reserved or completed sales up 43% on 2011
Byles poaches another schools director
Third former Partnership for Schools director joins Tim Byles new firm Cornerstone
Queen's Speech confirms Energy Bill
New legislative programme to bring forward electricity market reform to sure up nuclear new build programme
Housing market weakens in April
RICS shows impact of end of stamp duty holiday and growing economic gloom
Capita Symonds moves into hotel sector
New partnership targets investment and management opportunities
EC Harris breaks into Lloyds bank
EC Harris appointed as construction consultant for whole banking group
Brighton set to give tower plans a lift
Council could borrow £14m needed to get new landmark off the ground
HCA to put 112 housing sites on the market
Government departments and agencies promise to sell land for 102,000 homes
Ministers 'must do more' to tackle housing crisis, MPs warn
Communities select committee says government must accelerate efforts to attract institutional investment into housing
Killby & Gayford collapse halts work on centre for black history
Work on £6.5m history and culture centre in Brixton forced to stop after contractor goes into administration
Hinkley plant lorry cap could cost EDF £600m
Restrictions on lorry movements imposed by local authorities will cause costly delays
Chinese tower specialist joins rush to Europe
Far East Global Group launches UK company as Chinese cladding firms seek to undercut Europen rivals
Atkins opens new Doha office
Specialist chalks up threefold increase in Qatar staff in just 12 months
Labour sweeps to power in Birmingham
Local elections see Labour win in Birmingham and Southampton and a string of other regional towns and cities
Chelsea submits bid for Battersea Power Station
Clubs hopes to develop a 60,000 seat stadium on iconic site as well as homes, shops and offices
Davis Langdon poaches T&T director
Paul Dyson joins consultant as a director in its infrastructure team
Ray O'Rourke refused planning for own home
Laing O’Rourke boss wants to rebuild his mansion in conservation area of Essex
Morgan Sindall targets infrastructure
Contractor says rail, roads, aviation and energy are the key to financial success
Davey plays down impact of ‘conservatory tax’ U-turn
Consequential improvements were only one of many Green Deal incentives, says energy secretary
Bam Nuttall blames council boss in £55m busway dispute
Contractor says council official wanted Cambridge busway to resemble scheme in France that he ‘liked’
Contractor dragged into Museum of Liverpool row
Architect could seek costs from joint venture PGT over alleged design flaws in largest newly-built museum project in a century
Lord Rogers says 'time has come' to bid in Middle East
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners chairman says practice looking for work in Middle East for first time
Nuclear construction skills gets £2m boost
Sector skills council announces funding for training to build the UK’s eight planned nuclear reactors
CIPS data shows output growth in April
Purchasing managers survey points to continued confidence, but construction recovery remains sluggish
Balfour Beatty wins £143m of civils work
Balfour Beatty Regional Civil Engineering wins mutiple civils contracts in first three months of 2012
Government moots cash-back rewards to drive Green Deal
Discussion paper suggests offering extra cash-back rewards for customers who take-up a Green Deal
One World Trade Center tops New York
Construction of the £1.8bn One World Trade Center surpasses the Empire State Building
Government wants HS2 legal bids to be bundled together
The Department for Transport wants five separate requests for judicial review to be heard together in the High Court in October
Crossrail reveals Traction Power infrastructure shortlist
Balfour, Alstom, Costain, Siemens and Murphy through to next round
BIG Vancouver vision
Architect Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has unveiled plans for a 490-foot-tall tower in downtown Vancouver
City Site Estates goes into receivership
Scottish property-investment and construction firm calls in receivers
Development Securities reports £10.2m pre-tax loss
Preliminary 14-month results show assets decline £19.9m to £313.2m
BCSE unveils awards shortlist
Skanska, Wates and Willmott Dixon up for British Council of School Environments contractor of the year
Lafarge and Tarmac forced to sell chunk of assets
Competition Commission rules firms must sell off quarries and plants before joint venture is given green light
Gleeds to work on Serpentine Pavilion job
Firm will act as QS on London gallery’s latest summer venue
Network Rail signals Bristol station expansion
Planned overhaul as part of upgrade of the Great Western railway
Keepmoat to make 200 jobs redundant
Housebuilder Keepmoat is to make 200 jobs redundant following its merger with housebuilder Apollo
New green targets 'completely unrealistic'
The construction industry rejects government’s proposals for new standards for energy efficiency in new buildings
25% of construction firms cut back on green skills training
Survey reveals uncertainty over government policy leading to decrease in investment in green skills training
New managing partner targets 50% growth at Henry Riley
Firm may open more offices abroad after successful SA launch
'Living rent' pledge will scare off investors, industry warns
Housebuilding takes centre stage in mayoral race as concerns are raised over rent controls
Exclusive: Government holds back more vital schools data
Industry slams continuing secrecy after Building reveals raft of post-occupancy findings
Foster's Datong museum under construction
China’s ‘museum of the 21st century’ will represent the country in 2013 Basel Art
Richard Rogers welcomes new planning policy
Architect and Labour peer uses Alan Cherry memorial lecture to laud changes to the NPPF
Exclusive: Contractors' PFI school payments tied to green targets
Conditions to be imposed on PFI contracts as post-occupancy research shows schools failing on sustainability
Cameron seeks to reassure green industry
Prime minister says investment in green energy good for environment and the economy
Olympic park legacy sustainability goals unveiled
Legacy body targets zero-carbon for all homes on post-Games site
Government launches £35m energy efficiency innovation fund
Announcement follows another £35m package of seed funding for improving energy efficiency in buildings
Labour slams 'burying' of Green Deal research
Flint fears publication schedule will deliberately overshadow findings
Sir Robert McAlpine + Mace tipped for £8bn Earls Court job
Building understands contractors are in pole position for massive west London development
Sweett Group appoints Far East bosses
Consultant strengthens its Hong Kong and China management team to target further expansion
Exclusive: Third of previous government's new schools 'very good'
Post-occupancy evaluation of schools built under previous government leaked to Building
UK hit with double-dip recession
Fall in construction sector output of 3% in first quarter 2012 drags economy back into recession
Arcadis bags Abu Dhabi ports deal
Dutch engineer and UK subsidiary EC Harris win three-year framework
Ministers told to stop 'panicking' about heat incentive
Government fears run on budget of Renewable Heat Incentive despite sluggish start
Oxfordshire deal could net Carillion £700m
Shared services giant wins 10-year property and facilities-management contract
RICS launches new ‘Black Book’
Most significant launch of guidance for surveyors in 30 years - includes new standards on using BIM
Late payments crippling small construction firms
New report finds industry is worst-hit by lack of timely settlements
Firms win Queen's Awards for Enterprise
City Building, Campbell Lutyens, and Plant Parts among businesses honoured
Forum to drive equal-rights improvements
Construction industry body looks to boost ‘fairness, inclusion and respect’
Government claims £1.5bn infrastructure savings
Treasury says procurement improvements could lead to £3bn savings by 2015
Bidders for £4.35bn defence contracts revealed
List of firms interested in bidding for three new regional prime contracts worth up to £4.35bn published
Green light for Derwent and Crossrail's West End theatre
Council grants planning permission for first new theatre in West End for over 30 years
UKTI examining how Olympic marketing rules could be relaxed
Concerns raised through Building ‘now being taken seriously’
