Jun 26, 2026 | Finance and Markets, Housing, Infrastructure, News, Projects, Social Value, Sustainability
Regeneration specialist Watson has unlocked the redevelopment of the former Pit Pony Inn site in Ashton-in-Makerfield, transforming a long-vacant brownfield site into a sustainable residential development that delivers 22 affordable homes and lasting social value for...
Jun 26, 2026 | Housing, Infrastructure, News, Projects, Social Value, Sustainability
Yorkshire Water has successfully completed an £8.9m investment to upgrade Ingbirchworth and Hoylandswaine wastewater treatment sites in South Yorkshire to improve water quality in both the river Don and Banks Bottom Dike. These improvement works are successfully...
Jun 26, 2026 | Energy, News, Projects, Social Value, Supply Chain, Sustainability
Balfour Beatty today announces that it has been awarded a £121 million, four-year contract by National Grid to deliver the Bramford 400kV substation extension project in Suffolk, England, as part of the Bramford to Twinstead project. The contract has been awarded...
Jun 24, 2026 | Housing, Laws and Policies, News, Sustainability, Technology and innovation
The sustainability conversation in high-end residential construction has grown impressively sophisticated. Architects model thermal bridging, specifiers compare insulation values down to the decimal, and developers now treat airtightness results as a genuine selling...
Jun 24, 2026 | Housing, News, Projects, Sustainability, Technology and innovation
On most new-build sites, the front door stopped being a purely aesthetic choice some years ago. Composite has become the default entrance door across British housing, picked by developers and specifiers because it holds up to weather, needs almost no upkeep and meets...
Jun 24, 2026 | Housing, News, Projects, Sustainability, Technology and innovation
For years the garden building sat at the bottom of the construction hierarchy. It was a shed, a summerhouse, somewhere to keep the mower and shelter from a shower. The expectations were modest and so was the build. That picture has changed, and anyone working in...