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Aggreko has successfully completed the £4.5m low carbon production facility expansion in Dumbarton, Scotland.   The production facility expansion has seen Aggreko acquire land within the neighbouring ...

New Unite Students accommodation in Manchester announced, following a £64.58 million upgrade across three of its Manchester properties – Parkway Gate, Kincardine Court and New Medlock House.   The Uni ...

The Building Research Establishment (BRE) has announced a new project with BEIS to improve and modernise the home energy rating scheme used to measure the energy and environmental performance of UK ho ...

The UK’s first Passivhaus leisure centre has opened in Exeter following innovative engineering and design work by Arup and S&P. The nation’s first Passivhaus leisure centre is the culmination of a 20- ...

The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers has developed a new building safety training course focused on the Building Safety Bill, which will support building services professionals in ...

Amey will be working alongside Walsall Council to install a £10m+ conversion programme of energy efficient street lighting.   Amey will be helping Walsall with a £10m+ conversion programme, involving ...

A collaborative design team led by architects Allies and Morrison and Asif Khan Studio, has been appointed to deliver a multi-million-pound Barbican Centre renewal project. The Barbican Centre renewal ...

The start of 2022, saw an increase in the demand for office space, as new tenants look to rent more UK commercial property, according to the RICS Commercial Property Market Survey, Q1 2022.   Responde ...

Tarmac has signed a charter produced by The Pallet LOOP, which aims to reduce pallet waste in the construction industry. Annually, around 18 million pallets are estimated to be used in the UK construc ...

Re-flow co-founder & managing director, Michael Saunders, has completed his 400-mile run to raise money for the prevention charity, PAPYRUS.   Over the past four weeks, Re-flow co-founder and managing ...

LGIM Real Assets (Legal & General Investment Management), on behalf of its Build to Rent platform, has secured a four year, £270m green debt facility consisting of HSBC, NatWest and Standard Chartered ...

Elements Europe, an offsite specialist, has been appointed as the main contractor on a £100m London modular hotel and office development.   The central London scheme will provide 5 storeys of offices ...

Caledonia Housing Association, with support from NatWest, has secured £75m of sustainable funding to further its commitment to building sustainable housing and becoming a carbon-neutral organisation. ...

HMS has announced that it will be redeveloping the former Newton Community Hospital by building 39 apartments.    The existing Newton Community Hospital will be redeveloped to create 8 apartments: 3 2 ...

RIBA Gold Medal-winning studio Grafton Architects has been awarded the European Union's annual architecture award for Town House, a colonnaded teaching building designed for Kingston University in Lon ...

UK housing secretary Michael Gove has halted the planned demolition of Marks & Spencer's flagship store on London's Oxford Street, which was criticised for wasting the embodied carbon of the existing ...

The CIBSE Young Engineers Awards, which recognise the best new talent entering the building services industry, are now open for entry. The CIBSE Young Engineers Awards, which brings together the Gradu ...

The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) states that any plans for mass asbestos removal from public and commercial buildings must include detailed information on how those charged wit ...

Mace Construct and Willmott Dixon have been jointly appointed by the Crown Commercial Service to all three lots of the NHS ProCure23 Framework. The appointment will allow the two UK contractors to wor ...

Analysis by the British Property Federation (BPF) shows an increase in build-to-rent properties in the UK, over the past twelve months The analysis shows a total of 72,668 build-to-rent properties hav ...