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  • Morgan Sindall hits 2% operating margin for construction, despite no growth in turnover.
  • Emerging players in the construction sector are introducing greater numbers of factory-built homes into the UK market, but experts say this needs to be accompanied by industry-wide reform
  • The department has recently undertaken a call for evidence on its fire safety design guidance for building new schools, as part of wider work on fire safety across government.
  • A virtual replica of High Speed 2's (HS2) Old Oak Common station is being created to train staff ahead of the West London hub's construction.
  • ISG has won a '40m contract to refurbish Turner House at 16 Great Marlborough Street in London's West End.
  • Government funding for on-street electric car charging is to be doubled, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has announced.
  • A four-storey cube covered in 13,000 white tiles and which will house a substation as part of the HS2 redevelopment at Euston has been given planning.
  • London's new water fountains display an unsustainable failure of civic pride.
  • Super-prime construction company London Projects'works with many of the UK's top architects, interior designers and developers, meaning they get a great insight into the key trends and features that H ...
  • Fit-out contractor Structure Tone has signed a '60m contract to extend and refurbish a London office building.
  • The number of electric car charging points in the UK now exceeds petrol stations, as an increasing number of Brits turn to electric vehicles (EV).
  • Shares in'Balfour Beatty'rose 13% after its underlying profit more than tripled in Britain where it is working on lower risk contracts such as major road improvements, a rail link, and a nuclear power ...
  • Faced with a housing crisis and a construction skills shortage the UK is becoming a testbed for building modular houses in smart factories.
  • Radisson Hotel Group will be bringing films and characters to life in what will be an unforgettable hotel experience.
  • AECOM'has launched what is believed to be the world's first natural capital laboratory on a 100-acre site near Loch Ness.'
  • A competition to find alternative designs to replace the destroyed Notre Dame Cathedral roof has attracted a number of innovative "solutions" ' including a rooftop waterway over the medieval cathedral ...
  • Inhabit, a new hotel brand with a homelike feel, has opened London's first mindfulness boutique property in Paddington with anti-pollution filters, food-waste initiatives, a meditation pod and ethical ...
  • Fora has opened a fourth co-working space in London, in a Victorian warehouse just off Brick Lane that has been refurbished and redesigned by Piercy & Company.'The architects describe it as a 'soft, t ...
  • EDF has said it is doing more to tackle mental health on'Hinkley Point C'than on any other construction project, in response to criticism in a national newspaper.
  • Residents will begin moving in to some of the 766 apartments next year.'Adjacent to Canary Wharf, the 55-storey, residential-led development is set to complete next year and yesterday's ceremony, comm ...

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