All Building articles in 18 September 2026 – Page 4
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NewsHBF survey finds nine in 10 SMEs think Building Safety Levy will make more sites unviable
Group calls on government to pause introduction of tax designed to pay for remediation of defective buildings
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NewsKensington resi job stalled by Ardmore collapse restarts after developer steps in to get work going again
Seven Capital says group company will now oversee completion of west London scheme
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NewsGary Neville firm resubmits plans for rejected Manchester towers
Build-to-rent scheme to contain 723 homes with 50 classed as affordable
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NewsRidge appoints new project and programme delivery leader for London
Appointment part of move to grow the function in the capital
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NewsT Clarke improves margins as firm embarks on major offsite expansion plan
M&E contractor says expanded facility will be four times size of current one
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NewsUK boom helps profit improve at Sisk
Irish contractor says UK growth helped firm up margins last year
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NewsIn pictures: Architects propose reviving ‘lost tradition’ of London’s bathhouses
Pair propose repurposing capital’s disused railway viaducts as social bathing spaces inspired by similar models overseas
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NewsGovernment begins search for £104k-a-year Building Safety Regulator chair role
Position has been held on interim basis by former London Fire Brigade commissioner Andy Roe since last July
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NewsMorgan Sindall lined up for first phase of Civic Centre revamp in Plymouth
Work set to begin in earnest next month
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NewsCentre Point engineer Wilem Frischmann dies aged 95
Former Pell Frischmann chairman considered among the most influential engineers of the 20th century
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NewsGreen light for US billionaire’s London science institute HQ plan
Westminster signs off Foster’s refurb of listed townhouse site on St James’s Square for Larry Ellison
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NewsLendlease and Crown Estate send in plans for 2,000 homes in east London
Phase is final stage of Stratford Cross development
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Features‘A pretty bold swing’: New NPPF ushers in an era of permissive, nationally-led planning policy but could be scuppered by viability crisis
The much-awaited new national planning framework was published earlier this week, with a suite of pro-development policies. But builders are already warning that getting consent is only half of the story. Daniel Gayne reports
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CommentIs a withdrawal of credit insurance cover construction’s ‘canary in the coalmine’?
The withdrawal of trade credit cover has historically preceded high-profile corporate collapses - and now construction’s SME supply chains are at risk, warns Julie Palmer of BTG
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NewsWinner emerges on £85m new build office job that will replace 1970s City block
Faryners House scheme will be built close to the Monument
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NewsScale of Ardmore hit on subcontractors and taxman revealed by administrators
Six firms went under in June with subcontractors across the half dozen owed more than £23m
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NewsResearch finds regional disparities in employment, pay and working conditions for skilled construction workers
Trades working in London face higher housing and living costs
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CommentThe government is right to be more interventionist on planning
Governments have tried assuming every council will plan maturely and conscientiously. But this hasn’t worked so Matthew Pennycook’s more robust approach is needed, writes Paul Smith.
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NewsLandsec’s stalled plans for 1,800 homes in Camden finally approved after design revised
Changes to O2 shopping centre regeneration include increased building heights
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NewsIran war helped send London contractor under, administrators say
Curo Construction collapsed in June owing unsecured creditors more than £21m