Proud to Help campaign
Building the road to recovery after the coronavirus crisis
Construction is doing its bit to help the country in its hour of need. Building’s Proud to Help campaign places your efforts at the centre of our coverage
Nightingale hospitals built by Vinci team and Bam told to ready for second covid-19 wave
Tolent’s Sunderland facility also told to prepare
Better designed homes can improve young people's life chances
Damien Sharkey explains how HUB's recent design competition set out to help the next generation thrive
BCO launches ideas competition for post-covid workplace
Shortlist out in November
Belfast practice handed £295,000 contract to design Northern Irish covid hospital
Todd Architects behind ’second wave’ hospital in Antrim
Practical ways to help staff’s mental health
A little thought can have a big impact when people are feeling the strain, says ODS’ Martin Shields
Article 25 launches Myanmar hospital appeal
Charity’s David Murray explains how raising £10k will help control the spread of coronavirus
Arup Q&A: Digital technology and dealing with a pandemic
Arup’s chief information officer on how the coronavirus pandemic has propelled digital transformation
Build UK and CITB create construction STEM ambassador scheme
Programme has been designed to attract talent into construction
Arcadis drafted in to help firms get back to work
Consultant handed £50,000 from Innovate UK
Why the construction CRASH charity needs your help to survive the pandemic
CRASH chief executive Francesca Roberts explains how vital projects for the homeless are still carrying on despite huge challenges
Darwin completes the first of three Nightingale hospital wards in Wigan
Modular specialist completed ward in live hospital setting
London contractor offers covid-19 antibody test to staff and suppliers
Collins Construction says it has tested more than 230 people this week
Wates proposes Nightingale-style plan to build extra space for schools
Firm says easy-to-build temporary classrooms will help tackle growing crisis
Frameworks have a role to play in covid-19 recovery
Framework suppliers have an important role to play with showing security of work, writes Pagabo’s Simon Toplass
In pictures: Social distancing on Willmott Dixon sites
Firm releases pictures of how it is meeting new rules
Bam begins work on Exeter Nightingale hospital
Scheme will open next month
Industry rallies round to donate £1m of PPE to NHS frontline
Contractors Appeal has collected more than 250,000 items
Former military hospital overhauled to support covid-19 crisis
Headley Court transformed in 35 days to provide coronavirus rehabilitation centre
Campaign to build 100,000 ‘Homes for Heroes’ launches
Housing associations, developers and modular builders form post-covid campaign for off-site homes for key workers
Five lessons from building NHS Louisa Jordan
Aecom’s multidisciplinary team helped build Glasgow’s new covid-19 hospital in just three weeks, project director Graeme Watson explains how
Call for contractor to build pod to allow grandparents and children to hold hands
Scott Brownrigg designs portable room divided by plastic membrane
Other sectors should adopt construction’s safety practices as the lockdown eases
Mark Wakeford, joint managing director of Stepnell, gives some advice about the practicalities of operating safely during coronavirus crisis
Tolent-built Nightingale hospital could become covid-19 rehab centre
Sunderland scheme at empty industrial unit was opened yesterday
Hospital put on standby as Interserve completes more beds at Birmingham site
Nightingale centre has received no patients since it was built last month
Bam lined up for Exeter Nightingale hospital
Scheme due to be built at former DIY store
Interserve converts three hotels into covid-19 isolation centres
Firm working for health department and Home Office
Interserve trials new social distancing warning technology on Birmingham hospital job
Alarm sounds if people are closer than 2m
Laing O’Rourke opens nearly 400 beds at Welsh hospital a year early for covid patients
Gleeds project manager on scheme
What we’re learning building for a common cause
The private and public sectors have united in our hour of need
Wates set to complete Royal London covid work in breakneck five weeks
Whitechapel job is firm’s first for Barts trust
Construction must avoid the mistakes of the last downturn
We have a collective responsibility to make the right choices as we emerge from this crisis - which means paying on time and managing contracts fairly
What a ‘tick-shaped’ recession means for construction
As the industry gradually ‘reopens’ the challenge will be to ensure the supply of products can meet demand
The teams behind the covid-19 hospitals
String of temporary facilities built by industry
We have not seen the construction sector work together like this before
Build UK’s chief executive on the industry’s co-ordinated response to the coronavirus outbreak
Arcadis leads industry campaign to collect one million PPE items for NHS
Laing O’Rourke and Mace have both contributed
Captain Tom opens Bam’s Harrogate Nightingale hospital
Harrogate’s 500-bed covid hospital took just two weeks from procurement to opening
McAlpine brought in to build Jersey covid-19 hospital
180-bed facility due to open next month
Gleeds working on Welsh coronavirus hospitals
Schemes due to be finished next week
Construction work has never been so important
Proud to Help: Negative press during the lockdown should not overshadow projects that are so vital to this country’s future
Countryside sets up £1m support fund for charities
Initiative will be aimed at local charities and food banks
WSP pair pitch in to make hundreds of face masks for care workers
PPE equipment being manufactured using 3D and laser printers
Two more Nightingale hospitals open
Interserve, Vinci and McAlpine have all been working on the projects
Laing O’Rourke hospital opens 12 months early to support coronavirus patients
South Wales complex designed by BDP
Website set up to get architects 3D printing PPE for NHS
Organisers want to produce 35,000 face masks a week
Consultants drafted in to work on coronavirus hospitals
Mott MacDonald, Faithful + Gould and Arcadis all have roles on hospitals
Barratt donates defibrillators from closed construction sites
Housebuilder shut schemes last month
Everything is connected
A crisis makes us reassess our relationship with the world - and that should trigger a radical approach to the climate emergency
When a crisis hits, the construction industry comes together to support crucial services and the NHS
Interserve Construction’s managing director on building the NHS Nightingale Hospital at the NEC
Building the road to recovery after the coronavirus crisis
Construction is doing its bit to help the country in its hour of need. Building’s Proud to Help campaign places your efforts at the centre of our coverage
The long view: coronavirus’ impact on the built environment
Ike Ijeh talks to leading architects about long-term effects on everything work places and public spaces to urban density and climate change
Vinci picked to build two more coronavirus hospitals in Wales
Facilities will be known as Rainbow Hospitals
Please help: we offer vital financial aid to workers but our own income is shrinking
Bill Hill of the Lighthouse Club charity on his crisis appeal and a radical proposal for Treasury
Engineer who led NHS Nightingale design is recovering from covid-19
Hospital opened last week and began taking first patients on Tuesday
Interview: How we built NHS Nightingale in 10 days
BDP’s James Hepburn explains how an empty exhibition centre was converted into an intensive care unit
Kier building Bristol covid-19 hospital
Contractor also working on Glasgow and Swansea hospitals
In pictures: Interserve races to complete Birmingham coronavirus hospital
First 800 beds at NEC site completed tomorrow
Kier picked to build Swansea coronavirus hospital
Vinci and McAlpine confirmed as contractors on Manchester facility
Industry races to complete NHS Nightingale hospital in record time
Mace, BDP and CFES set to hand over remaining beds over coming weeks
Bam building Harrogate’s temporary coronavirus hospital
Arcadis and BDP also working on project
Balfour and Kier appointed to build temporary Glasgow hospital
Robertson and Graham are also working on the 300-bed coronavirus facility set to open by middle of month
Network Rail puts suppliers on immediate payment terms
Firm tells contractors to pay their subcontractors as equally as quickly
Keltbray and Lendlease among firms working on Nightingale hospital car park
Scheme due to open this week
Interserve and Bam among firms building emergency coronavirus hospitals
Vinci and Midas also drafted in to build new wards to deal with outbreak
Search under way for contractors to help out NHS
Firms have until Friday to register interest
Firms call on industry to donate masks, gloves and overalls to NHS
Contractors Appeal Campaign after spare PPE
Former Interserve boss drafted in to lead covid-19 testing programme
Debbie White to set up network of testing centres across the UK
