All Building articles in 24 July 2015
View all stories from this issue.
-
News
All change at top of Henry Boot
New executive team announced as housebuilder posts solid half-year results
-
News
Kier retains £1.5bn Scape minor works framework
Maximum value of projects that can be delivered through the framework increased from £2m to £4m
-
Comment
Hansom: The right words
Plans are afoot to build Tolkien’s fictional city of Minas Tirith, to get children into construction via computer games, to impersonate owls, race yachts and then do a charity run. And after all that you’ll need a shower
-
News
Barbour ABI's August market review is out now
Barbour ABI’s Economic Construction Market Review for August is now available to download
-
News
HSE asked to 'urgently' investigate Earls Court asbestos claims
London Assembly members have requested the HSE “urgently” investigate the Earls Court redevelopment over asbestos concerns
-
News
JLL buys fit-out firm Bluu
JLL has acquired design and fit-out firm Bluu as it expands its Tétris business
-
News
US giant buys materials firm National Hickman
National Hickman has been taken over by Masonite International for £52m as US buyers look to invest in stable UK market
-
News
Battersea Power Station developer relocates affordable homes
Developer submits proposals relocating affordable homes to outskirts of main development over concerns of delays from infrastructure projects
-
News
Profit up five-fold at student halls developer Unite
Student accomodation developer and manager Unite Group has posted bumper results for the first half of the year
-
News
Bouygues UK bags £42m Barking regeneration scheme
Bouygues UK wins first construction contract from Gascoigne Estate regneration masterplan
-
News
'Oven fire' causes Shard evacuation
A fire at the Shard has forced parts of Europe’s tallest building to be evacuated
-
News
T Clarke reaps rewards from booming London
T Clarke says it has high hopes for the future as it finishes off legacy projects
-
News
Galliford Try wins £66m HSBC retail bank HQ
Galliford Try has won the £66m contract to build HSBC’s new Birmingham office
-
News
Atkins' super-tall Vietnam tower gets underway
Construction has begun on Vietnam’s tallest building - Vincom Landmark 81 – in the country’s capital, Ho Chi Minh. The Atkins-designed 460m-tall building comprises 25 thin sections with multiple roof gardens. The 81-storey mixed-use tower from local developer Vingroup will face the Saigon River and feature a hotel, apartments and ...
-
News
New Keller boss plans to better integrate giant
Ground engineering giant posts solid half-year results
-
News
Cost of Watford mall revamp jumps 48%
Client Intu says cost of mall refurbishment and extension has soared following Bam’s departure
-
News
Major revamp planned for Westminster's Millbank Tower
International architecture competition on cards for Holocaust memorial
-
News
Olympic Park's Orbit tower to become Europe's longest helter skelter
£1m plan aims to boost visitor numbers - one every 37 seconds
-
News
Balfour Beatty road worker killed on M3 works
The worker, in his late 20s, died while working on improvements between junctions 1 and 2 of the M3
-
News
Atkins launches Singapore architecture practice
Consultant opens Singapore architect practice to develop relationship with Chinese contractors