A young family-owned business is laying the groundwork for further expansion after breaking the £1m annual turnover barrier less than two years after it was set up. Glasgow-based Aspire Industrial Services provides consumables, plant hire, tools and workwear to the...

Q Investment Partners (QIP) and HG Developments (HGD) have purchased a 198-bed purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) site in Edinburgh from property developer, Summix, enabling the delivery of a £30 million development. This is the first venture north of the...

Arcadis has been appointed by Cranfield University to lead the masterplanning and delivery of a new proposed university quarter in the heart of Milton Keynes; the largest urban area in the UK not to have its own dedicated residential university. MK:U is being planned...

If you work in construction, you’ll already be aware that it’s a noisy industry. But did you know that the construction sector has the second-highest rate of employees developing occupational deafness? In fact, every year, 1 million people in the UK are exposed to...

Skanska is the first in the UK to deliver a unique reinforced concrete encasement for V-shaped piers, to extend the life of an iconic bridge in Peterborough. The works to strengthen six of the eight piers supporting the Nene Bridge, a 155m long structure carrying more...

A custom-designed, vehicle-mounted vacuum litter picker has been developed and built by Balfour Beatty Plant & Fleet in partnership with Connect Plus Services (CPS), the company which operates and maintains the M25 on behalf of Connect Plus and Highways England....

Local housing provider Grand Union Housing Group has agreed a deal with Milton Keynes Development Partnership (MKDP) to develop 34 homes at Bradwell Common in Milton Keynes. Planning has been submitted for the properties on the one acre site at Hampstead Gate with a...

In a UK first, a collaboration between Amey, United Utilities and jetting equipment supplier Jetchem, has led to the development of two new pieces of kit that prevent customers’ properties being flooded by sewage and reduce the cost of keeping them clear. Customers...

Dates: 27th & 28th November 2019 Venue: Olympia London – National Hall W: www.londonbuildexpo.com P: 0203 058 2350 E: enquiries@londonbuildexpo.com London Build (27-28 November, Olympia London) has firmly established the reputation as the leading construction and...

A team of 30 Selco Builders Warehouse staff members all put their best foot forward to complete a marathon walking challenge and raise almost £20,000 for charity. Staff from 10 different Selco branches joined forces to complete the Macmillan Cancer Support Wye Valley...

Scottish property developer FM Group has launched a major training and skills programme with the Caribbean. The programme aims to upskill participants from the Caribbean in different sectors such as construction, agriculture and hospitality, by bringing them to...

Balfour Beatty Living Places in partnership with Southampton City Council, was recently awarded the Best Public / Private Partnership Working Initiative award at the Association for Public Service Excellence awards. These awards recognise the very best in local...

The Hinkley Point C project has reached another key milestone with the start of tunnelling at the UKs first new nuclear power station in a generation. Work has started to install the 38,000 concrete segments required to support the three underground marine tunnels at...

A new thought leadership programme is set to launch this week (Friday 20th September), seeking to drive innovation and create an environment for change across local places. Developed by the Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning & Transport...

Leading contractor Thomas Sinden has completed the expansion of two primary schools for the London Borough of Hillingdon. As part of LB Hillingdon’s £150m primary school expansion programme, Thomas Sinden was appointed to design and build a new 2,122m2building to...

New DLR escalators a key milestone in plans to boost station capacity by 40 per cent Work to begin later this month and set for completion in 2022 Transport for London (TfL) is advising customers at Bank station that essential works to make way for the installation of...

Construction company Robertson has completed work for the Salvation Army at the Strawberry Field site in Woolton, Liverpool. The Salvation Army is the custodian and owner of the iconic Strawberry Field and Robertson has delivered a new £4.8m training hub; visitor...

Museum design consultancy, Mather & Co celebrate successful exhibition stint in Boston, USA Touring exhibition has already been hosted in Singapore, New York, Sydney and Toronto As Downton Abbey, the popular British historical period drama, is set to feature on...

Senior industry figures have welcomed the Scottish Government’s pledge to publish a consultation on the regulation of electricians – but have also urged them to make it happen soon. The announcement in the 2019-20 Programme for Government was accompanied by an...

The deputy branch manager of a Portsmouth builders merchant who is suffering from a non-curable condition has raised more than £10,000 for charity - by taking on a 100km two-day running challenge. Sylvia Herring, who works at the Selco Builders Warehouse branch at...

In April this year, Amey on behalf of Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) completed a multi-million pound housing refurbishment project for Service families at Warminster. The project began in November 2018 and has seen fifty properties transformed from old,...

New high-quality Cycleways will bring even more people within easy reach of London’s rapidly expanding cycle network, adding 20km of protected space New routes include an extension to Cycleway 6, which now connects Kentish Town to King’s Cross and central London...

John Swinney, the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills, has visited Merkinch Primary School coinciding with the completion of a state-of-the-art Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) structure. This is the first primary school in the Highlands...

A landmark moment in the project to upgrade Bank Tube station was reached this week, with the roof on the new station entrance, located on Cannon Street, ‘topped out’ and now complete. The new entrance will provide customers with direct access to the Northern line, as...

Volunteers from Ramboll have travelled to Lombok to commence the construction of low-cost, sustainable bamboo housing for the earthquake-prone Indonesian island, in partnership with University College London (UCL) and a local NGO.   Lombok-based charity...

Phil Clifton, Managing Director of Balfour Beatty’s Highways business is featured in Highways Magazine discussing the importance of embedding digital and innovative ways of working when delivering modern road projects for Highways England and road users. The article...

We’re a nation of entrepreneurs who are willing to take risks in business as we are to building our own homes and developing our own properties. According to the latest visitor survey from the Homebuilding & Renovating Show, over one in four self-builders and home...

TfL publishes consultation report showing public support for lower speeds in central London Work will begin later this year to make 8.9km of TfL roads 20mph Part of the Vision Zero commitment to eliminate death and serious injury from London’s roads TfL will begin...

More than one in 10 SMEs in the construction industry supply chain say their cash flow will not be able to cope with controversial changes to the way VAT is collected, according to major new research carried out by Hudson Contract. The domestic reverse charge comes...