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Carillion hails game-changing Battersea win
Carillion’s construction boss says focus on “lean technologies and off-site construction” helped firm to beat rivals to £400m Battersea job
FM Conway leapfrogs rivals with £272m in highways work
Two highways jobs shake up contractors league table in April as sector springs back into action
Zaha Hadid wins Saudi metro station job
Architect’s design chosen for major Riyadh metro station on world’s largest urban transport project
Laing O'Rourke Aussie boss returns to UK
Exclusive: Steve Hollingshead returns to UK as director of contractor’s infrastructure division
Former Ramboll boss joins Pell Frischmann
Charles McBeath recruited by rival firm as operations director
Olympic stadium revamp set for approval
Reworking of 2012 stadium by architect Populous given thumbs up ahead of planning meeting
MPs slam 'opaque' Green Deal
MPs have criticised the government’s lack of definite goals for its flagship Green Deal scheme.
Revealed: Grimshaw's Wimbledon tennis masterplan
Architect releases fly-through of sweeping changes to historic tennis club site
Carillion wins £400m Battersea job
Carillion selected as preferred bidder for £400m job to build the first phase of the Battersea Power Station development
Davis Langdon off-shoot to turn over £1m in first year
Delay analysis specialist TQEF enjoys strong first four months
Three overseas buyers interested in Rowecord
Administrator says two Asian and one European buyer “seriously” interested
Mace bags role on £1bn Russian development
Firm wins delivery partner role on £1bn plus residential scheme in St Petersburg
Gove: modern buildings should 'lift up the soul'
Education secretary who has long downplayed the importance of school design laments lack of beauty in built environment
Competition Commission to tackle high cement prices
Commission finds coordination in the cement market is keeping prices high
Schools contractors will require 'investment grade' credit rating
The schools capital agency says privately-financed projects will have to achieve triple-B minus credit rating to draw down funding
Wates switches teams in £200m Green Deal race
Exclusive: Contractor joins with British Gas after original partner Npower drops out of the Newcastle contest, with race down to two teams
Revealed: Fly-through of Wilkinson Eyre's Sydney resort
Wilkinson Eyre Architects have won the design competition for Crown Sydney Hotel Resort on the city’s harbourfront
Government construction pipeline falls by £11bn
Lack of new opportunities ahead of spending review sees value of construction pipleline fall by a third
Contractor chosen for £30m batch of schools
Kier has won a £31m batch of schools in the south of England.
M&E firm Farrelly in administration
Family-run West Midlands firm becomes the latest M&E firm to fall into hands of administrators
One in five joint ventures end in dispute
EC Harris construction disputes report also finds value and duration of disputes also on the rise
Sweett 'back to business as usual' as coup fails
Consultant to restart search for new institutional investors after takeover bid by Francis Ives failed
UK business 'needs better infrastructure'
Chair of Port of London Authority tells BCO conference that improving the UK’s transport infrastructure is vital
Miliband policy adviser backs Heathrow expansion
Lord Adonis tells BCO conference that Heathrow expansion is the ‘only credible option’ for solving airport capacity crunch
Olympic media centre to get £100m revamp
Developer signs deal with London Legacy Development Corporation and will start work in 2014
Watchdog to spend more time on May Gurney takeover
Office for Fair Trading extends period for examining Kier’s proposed £221m takeover with May Gurney
A third of councils failing on green building directive
Local authorities flout Brussels directive aimed at improving energy performance of their estates
More than 120 jobs go at Daniel Contractors
Administrator Deloitte announces first job losses at stricken North-west contractor
More than 450 jobs 'under review' at Daniel Contractors
But administrator says 900 of the 1,449 jobs at Daniel Contractors to be safeguarded
Pinewood Studios revamp rejected
Plans drawn up by Arup Associates for a £200m revamp of Pinewood Studios have been rejected by the local council
Concerns over cost and timetable led to £1bn PF2 schools cut
Doubt in official explanation that deterioration in markets led to £1bn reduction in private finance schools programme
Westfield and Hammerson launch Croydon joint venture
Clients launch Croydon Partnership and confirm design team
Network Rail revamps contractor league table
Rail body makes changes to contractor ranking system after pressure from firms
Mace set to begin on £768m Victoria Circle
Developer Land Securties reports £533m profit for full year and confirms Mace’s appointment as £768m first phase begins next month
Barratt completes £850m refinancing
Housebuilder ditches high interest placement notes and interest rate swaps
Another boss exits Balfour Beatty
Exclusive: Executive director Rob Walker leaves Balfour Beatty’s UK construction business in the wake of the firm’s £50m profit warning
Chinese business park set for Royal Docks
Greater London Authority reported to have appointed preferred bidder
Infrastructure spending could boost UK economy by £100bn
Report recommends government spend 1% of GDP on infrastructure for the next five years
Mears moves fast on Morrison integration
Firm expects to complete full integration by the end of the year
Concern grows over Daniel Contractors
Northwest specialist faces seven court orders to pay debts totalling £111,698 amid reports of financial difficulties
Interserve wins £700m of work in first quarter
Clients include Jaguar Land Rover, Magnox and Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
Schools chief blames 'market deterioration' for shock £1bn funding switch
EFA capital director Mike Green says new PF2 model not to blame for cut in privately-financed schools
Sweett board reaches out to rebel shareholders
Board seeks meeting with Francis Ives after quashing attempted coup
Construction output lowest for 15 years
Latest ONS figures show output falling 2.4% in the first quarter of 2013
Revealed: Full breakdown of £1bn schools batches
Education Funding Agency publishes detail of £300m capital and £700m PF2 schools work
Gleeds pension scheme challenged in High Court
Case in February could result in benefits being recalculated for some members, according to a letter seen by Building
RLB wins cost management role on Rio 2016 Olympics
Consultant provides cost estimates for temporary overlay installations at all 30 of the Rio 2016 competition venues
MEPs attack government for ‘incoherent’ approach to DECs
Coalition’s own MEPs lament ‘missed opportunity’ in letter to communities secretary Eric Pickles
Parsons Brinckerhoff wins £78m US rail job
Balfour Beatty subsidiary awarded extension on existing high-speed rail contract
Engineering firms back Severn Barrage plan
Mott MacDonald, URS and Bechtel all join forces to work on Severn Barrage
Michael Dyke leaves role as Lend Lease boss
Exclusive: EMEA construction MD departs post with immediate effect as 90 jobs are put at risk
Seventeen councils retain block on office-to-resi conversions
London councils and handful of others exempt as government rolls out planning relaxation
Industry hails Queen’s promise of HS2 legislation
Commentators call for further transport infrastructure improvements ahead of HS2s completion in 2032
Costain takes £4m hit for failed May Gurney bid
Contractor says start to the year otherwise “strong” in trading update
British Land and AHMM to develop huge London scheme
Project will deliver 22 new buildings in Shoreditch
EFA to procure body to raise finance for new schools
BFE latest: Private finance ‘aggregator’ to be set up to fund £1.75bn PF2 school programme
Housing market recovery boosts Crest Nicholson results
Government’s Help to Buy scheme also credited for strong half year performance
Barratt picked for 600 home revamp of Catford Dogs
London mayor signs deal with housebuilder for mixed-use redevelopment
£330m university campus moves forward
Plans for University of Northampton scheme boosted by compulsory purchase order
Bradford and Kirklees to be next priority schools batch
BFE latest: EFA director says fourth batch to be procured “soon”
Energy firms 'must be fined' over carbon failures
Experts says its time for regulator to crack down over failure of energy firms to hit carbon reduction targets
Ocon creditors left £4.3m out of pocket
Manchester-based contractor’s collapse sees creditors only paid up to 22p of every pound owed
Hinkley C go-ahead ‘imminent’
Deal between EDF and government for £10bn nuclear power station could come as early as next week
Bouygues sells civil engineer Fitzgerald
Bouygues UK has sold civil engineering contractor Fitzgerald to its management a year after acquiring the firm
Construction industry insolvencies fall 8%
But fall in number of insolvencies in first quarter of the year likely to prove a ‘false dawn’ experts warn
Bam Construct holds steady in difficult market
Chief executive Graham Cash says turnover has now levelled out and cites ‘well structured’ business as reason for firm’s resilience
UK electrical firm bought by European giant
Spie UK agrees deal to acquire electrical engineer Alard
Rowecord administrator 'not optimistic' about sale
Administrator of steel specialist says sale of the remaining operational parts of the business is unlikely
Carillion bags £335m Liverpool hospital job
Carillion-led consortium beats rival team led by Interserve to Royal Liverpool hospital contract
Carillion on National Grid framework
Contractor says it is one of six on £1.5bn five-year substation job
John Laing wins £120m Cambridge health scheme
Project finance to be arranged by contractor in first-of-its-kind development for NHS
Olympic delivery figures launch consultancy
Exclusive: Four senior London 2012 figures including James Bulley will advise clients on major projects around the world
Firms appointed to £3bn water framework
Two consortiums including Balfour Beatty, Skanska, Costain and Atkins have been appointed to do the design and build work on Thames Water’s £3bn framework
Hub airport unnecessary, says London Assembly
Body contradicts London mayor by saying existing capacity should be better used
Balfour Beatty banks £58.5m from PFI asset sales
Contractor says it will reinvest cash in target regions and markets
WSP wins role on West Coast mainline upgrade
Third phase of upgrade work due to complete in 2016
Costain’s £123m M6 job faces legal challenge
Campaigners argue government’s decision to grant planning permission to the £123m M6 link road was flawed
Willmott Dixon wins £22m retirement village
Firm to repeat its work on Denham Garden Village in Buckinghamshire at new site in Hampshire
Crest Nicholson wins £600m barracks job
Housebuilder Crest Nicholson appointed to Aborfield Garrison scheme by Ministry of Defence
Scotland funds offshore wind development
Scottish government boosts sector with £15m to develop new foundation designs
Infrastructure plan 'just a long list of expensive projects'
Public Accounts Committee says government’s national infrastructure plan lacks clear priorities and a strategic vision
Austin-Smith:Lord revenue falls 40%
Financially-troubled architect reports drop in business after problem project in Abu Dhabi but cuts losses
HPF targets global expansion with new boss
Exclusive: Hurley Palmer Flatt appoints new group chief executive tasked with expanding the firm through acquisitions overseas
Firms fined over lorry death
Two companies have been ordered to pay almost £800,000 in fines and costs after a driver was run over and killed by his own lorry
Costain defends May Gurney failure
Costain’s boss defends the firm’s failed bid for services provider May Gurney, after being trumped by Kier’s takeover deal
Eight-month delay to £600m government framework
Exclusive: Firms face uncertainty as retendering for one of the largest public sector frameworks for consultants delayed
Mott MacDonald buys African consultant
UK firm makes purchase to tackle major projects in the region and move into water and property sectors
Bam wins £27m batch of priority schools
Exclusive: Bam Construct has won a £27m batch of schools through the government’s flagship school building programme
Bam holds strong in challenging market
Bam Construct has seen its revenues and profit hold steady amid difficult market conditions in the UK.
Taylor Wimpey reports strong start to year
Housebuilder says government’s Help to Buy scheme is helping to boost interest
UK economy avoids triple dip
Growth of 0.3% dragged down by construction, which is worst performing sector
Green light for Shell Centre redevelopment
Qatari Diar and Canary Wharf Group to start on site this year on one of London’s largest redevelopment schemes
RMJM bosses in war of words
Leaked email reveals chief executive Peter Morrison criticising European chief Jonathan French
GPE prepares four London schemes for market
Developer says almost 400,000 sq ft of developments could start by 2014
Gove approves 102 new free schools
Education Secretary gives green light for schools to open from 2014
Contractor picked for final batch of priority schools
Exclusive: Willmott Dixon wins £21m final batch of first phase priority schools
Crane drama at Royal London showers street with glass
Accident at new Royal London Hospital imperils pedestrians
Largest builder in Dubai hit by major strike
Thousands of migrant workers on Arabtec jobs down tools in protest over low pay
Three left in race for £350m Battersea job
Exclusive: Sir Robert McAlpine misses out on Battersea Power Station first phase as five-strong shortlist cut to three firms
Morgan Sindall gets go-ahead for UK's 'greenest building'
Building to meet both Passivhaus and BREEAM Outstanding standards
Government doubles renewable heat subsidies
Renewable Heat Premium Payment increases to help boost industry while another government scheme is delayed
New boss of Cabe appointed
Former director at Capita Symonds and Shepheard Epstein Hunter takes up post
Cinema complex to be dismantled over 75 cm error
Developer confirms St Neots scheme ‘built in wrong place’
Contractor picked for £33m priority schools
Exclusive: Wates has won a £33m batch of schools in the east of England
Revealed: Fly-through of Herzog's Oxford uni project
Herzog & de Meuron and Laing O’Rourke’s £30m Blavatnik School of Government wins planning permission
Homebuyers wary of Green Deal debts
Survey finds home buyers are unwilling to take on Green Deal debts
Inquest details kidnapped QS's death
‘Friendly-fire’ ruled out after failed rescue attempt in Nigeria
EDF delays Hinkley funding ‘until at least September’
Exclusive: £10bn nuclear plant project six months behind revised schedule with half of jobs on site now at risk
More senior figures to leave Lend Lease amid shake-up
Exclusive: Two further senior figures are set to leave contractor Lend Lease following news that managing director Michael Dyke left his post
Styles & Wood expects to make half-year loss
Fit out specialist braced to go into the red for first six months of 2013
Bidders for £1.5bn Scottish Water job revealed
Mace, Carillion, Morgan Sindall, Atkins and Balfour Beatty among the members of six consortia in the race
Carillion bags £47m priority schools job
Exclusive: Carillion has won a £47m batch of schools in the North-west of England
BRE’s housing plan rejected over ‘lack of sustainability’
Council says plans for Watford homes would ‘put more pressure on schools and create more traffic’
Design team chosen for £800m Goodsyard scheme
Team appointed to design Hammerson and Ballymore’s £800m Bishopsgate Goodsyard development in London
Carillion misses half its sustainability targets
Contractor behind schedule on 11 of 22 targets, but has exceeded its target performance on a number of other key measures
Balfour wins £77m Aussie rail job
Contract is first won under the infrastructure giant’s new country structure
Government's £300m boost still leaves many schools waiting
Capital funding boost still leaves more than half of schools originally included in priority schools programme waiting
Watchdog slams 'flawed' HS2 business case
National Audit Office says business case for high speed rail line has numerous flaws
Carillion saves £10m through green push
Firm’s chief executive Richard Howson underlines business case for sustainability in construction
Daniel Contractors in administration
North-west firm placed in administration, but Deloitte says plans are in place to safeguard 990 jobs
Thames Water confirms £3bn framework firms
Thames Water confirms two consortia including firms Balfour Beatty, Skanska, Costain and Atkins have won places on its £3bn AMP6 framework
Delay in Scots energy regulations hurting investment
Industry leaders say jobs an investment at risk due to continued regulatory uncertainty
Full steam ahead for Hitachi's £82m Durham train factory
Merchant Place Developments has won the job to build an £82m train manufacturing plant for Hitachi Rail Europe in the North-east of England
Green Deal market continues to grow
Number of Green Deal assessments rises by a quarter month-on-month
Balfour Beatty construction revenue plummets
Lack of public projects and fierce competition in regional markets blamed for 23% drop in UK construction revenue
Babcock reports 16% profit hike
Engineer targeting opportunities stemming from demand for increasing efficiency in defence, nuclear and rail
Emcor pulls out of UK construction
M&E giant pulls out of construction market to focus on facilities management
Bam lands £75m priority schools package
This is the second win for the contractor under government’s £400m investment programme
MPs reject Thames estuary airport plans
Heathrow expansion backed at expense of schemes by Foster & Partners, Halcrow and Gensler
Make Architects to close Birmingham office
Firm blames lack of regional work for decision to shut Birmingham base
Former EC Harris and DL stars launch consultant
Six former partners link up to found Alinea consulting
Galliford Try housebuilding boss to diversify for growth
Andrew Richards looks for higher margins at Linden Homes through JVs and private rented sector sales
EFA to press go on £1.75bn of privately financed school work
Government’s delivery body set to launch search for contractors and to detail PF2 funding model
Scottish government enlists unions in anti-blacklisting drive
Scottish minister announces Unite, Unison, and the GMB have been asked to work on procurement guidance
Morgan Sindall issues profit warning
Construction giant says margins impacted in construction, infrastructure and affordable housing
Green Investment Bank sparks £2.3bn of investment
Energy infrastructure and Green Deal benefit from bank’s investment in first six months.
Sweett shareholders reject chairman coup
Former boss Francis Ives fails in bid to regain control of consultant
Crest Nicholson blames delay over Part L for hike in costs
Housebuilder attacks government for failing to announce the revisions to energy regulations
Gensler returns to profit
British arm of US architect’s profitability boosted by overseas work in latest available accounts
UCL ditches £1bn East London campus
Blow to consultants as university’s commercial negotiations with Newham council fail
T&T scoops Battersea project manager role
Consultant wins phases one and two of iconic power station redevelopment
PF2 schools to be launched 'within days'
EFA chief ends speculation over timing of programme at London conference
Holder Mathias co-founder announces retirement
Architect Peter Mathias to step down after 44 years at the practice
Coalition 'passing more planning regs than Labour'
Government also increasing the burden of planning costs on sector, study finds
New home registrations up 22%
Registrations hit highest level for first quarter since 2008, boosted by new properties registered at Battersea power station
Spire hoisted to top of Freedom Tower
The spire of New York’s One World Trade Centre has been hoisted to the top of the skyscraper ahead of its installation
Clients impeding BIM take-up
RICS says lack of demand from clients is standing in the way of the industry-wide adoption of BIM
Farrell unveils plan for Convoys Wharf
Sir Terry Farrell-designed masterplan to transform Convoys Wharf submitted for planning permission
Blacklist protests target Holyrood
Workers gather outside Scottish parliament to demand action from government on blacklisting in the construction industry
Elderly fear Green Deal debts
Demand for Green Deal from elderly property owners stifled by fear of financial risk
Balfour boss to impose strict controls on UK arm
Andrew McNaughton sets out action plan to turn around UK construction business after £50m profit warning
MCC unveils £200m Lord's revamp
Redevelopment of historic Cricket Ground designed by Colin Maber and Populous
Construction declines for sixth month running
Latest Markit/CIPS index shows decline in commercial activity but pick-up in residential
Five firms make cut for £1.5bn power framework
Exclusive: Firms including Balfour Beatty and Laing O’Rourke win place on five-year National Grid substation framework
Creditors chase £6.5m after Herbert Baggaley collapse
Administrator KPMG finds £2m to pay trade creditors, leaving £4.5m shortfall
Peasland to exit Balfour Beatty
Balfour Beatty’s demoted UK construction boss Mike Peasland is to leave the company by the end of the year
Government BIM push reaches turning point
Focus now shifting to implementation government’s head of BIM says
Energy firms investigated for missing carbon targets
Half of the big six energy firms fail to meet all of their legally binding energy efficiency targets
Legal case against £275m incinerator defeated
Spanish contractor FCC to build scheme in Buckinghamshire that will generate 22mw of electricity
Vinci wins first phase of £450m Swansea campus
Contractor to build student apartments and academic space
Criminal probe into Green Deal fraud
Trading Standards launches investigation into allegations of Green Deal fraud
Bam frontrunner for £150m Saatchi job
Exclusive: Bam secures pre-construction role on Derwent’s redevelopment of the former Saatchi & Saatchi office building in London
Balfour Beatty issues £50m profit warning
Group chief executive takes charge of UK construction business, where profit is forecast to be £50m less than expected
Rowecord Engineering in administration
One of the UK’s largest steelwork contractors falls into administration, with 430 jobs set to go
Major shake-up at Balfour Beatty
Mike Peasland steps down from role as UK construction chief executive to run regional business following £50m profit warning
First private finance schools worth £300m
Details emerge of first three batches of privately financed priority schools to come market
Galliford Try fixing leaks on £22m roof
Newport railway station’s innovative £22m roof is being repaired by contractor Galliford Try because it has been leaking
BRE wins role on £4bn Chinese marina project
Consultant will provide sustainable building advice while client seeks further UK expertise
RLB bags £230m Caribbean resort job
Consultant to work on three phases of 70-acre scheme comprising spa resort and residential villas
Costain drops out of battle for May Gurney
Costain says it will not make a revised offer for May Gurney following Kier’s proposed £221m takeover of the firm
MPs told late payment is 'organised crime'
Parliamentary inquiry into late payment hears evidence from subcontractors
Galliford Try secures £26m retirement home
Firm also secures financial close on £16m London housing scheme
