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  • Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has published his Spring Budget.  Let’s review the key announcements for construction:  £20 billion for carbon capture and storage   £200 million for pothole repairs in England  ...
  • Leading housebuilder Lovell has furthered its commitment to support left behind people and communities across the West Midlands by working with Standing Tall – a charity that gives power to people exp ...
  • The transport secretary has announced that more than £40 billion will be invested in "transformational transport schemes" over the next two financial years. The funding is intended to help level up an ...
  • ⭐ Celebrating major achievements, developments and innovations across the UK’s construction industry.  🏆 Featuring 23 categories for suppliers, contractors, architects, civil engineers, developers, h ...
  • McLaren Construction Group has posted financial results showing strong growth and a return to profit. During the year to 31st July 2022 McLaren Construction Group increased turnover by 39% to £752m (2 ...
  • Get ready for a new Liverpool Street station with 16-storey tower and hotel on top! Designs have been released this week showing new plans for a £1.5bn redevelopment of Liverpool Street Station in Lon ...
  • Get ready for an incredible redevelopment of 85 Gracechurch St in the City of London 💚 85 Gracechurch Street is a proposed 132metre, 32-storey skyscraper adjacent to Leadenhall Market. Last month Woo ...
  • #LondonToday. One Leadenhall. Steel erection & decking installation progresses to level 6 and core to level 14. The One Leadenhall Street development in the City of London is from Brookfield Propertie ...
  • Corstorphine & Wright’s new Head of Digital, Neil Carter, opens up about his career, his fascination with all things digital and what the digital transformation of the built environment really looks l ...
  • Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC) is investing £200m to fund the construction of a new build-to-rent skyscraper in Birmingham. The development will consist of 667 apartments, split across a 16-story ...
  • North Lanarkshire Council has an ambitious vision to re-invent North Lanarkshire as the place to Live, Learn, Work, Invest and Visit. Through the Enterprise Project (the 'Project') an ambitious progra ...
  • ‘Open Doors 2023’ will give young people the chance to go behind site hoardings on busy construction sites and learn about career opportunities across the industry Next year’s programme, taking place ...
  • London Build opens its doors this month, with more than 350 exhibitors set to pack out Olympia London's Grand Hall. This year's show will feature a record number of product launches and industry innov ...
  • TRANSFORMATION OF TEA FACTORY Glenn Howells Architects is working on a masterplan to transform more than 10 acres of underutilised land, in Digbeth, Birmingham, which includes Typhoo Wharf and the his ...
  • A development partner is being sought for a major, first-of-its-kind industrial regeneration scheme on the Greenwich Peninsula. The 3.38-acre site at 75 Bugsby’s Way will be transformed into one of Lo ...
  • Bidding will shortly open to work on the first phase of the upcoming £260m mixed-used Digbeth Scheme.  Designed by by Corstorphine & Wright and led by Cole Waterhouse, the scheme in the Digbeth Cultur ...
  • This week Skanska celebrated reaching the highest point of construction on the Ropemaker development, with a topping-out ceremony at 20 and 22 Ropemaker street.  Designed by Make Architects, the mixed ...
  • The UK's biggest Festival of Construction will return to Olympia London next month (Nov 16th & 17th) with more content, networking and entertainment than ever before! Your ticket to London Build will ...
  • This week the World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) launched a new industry guide that aims to tackle climate change resilience.  When stating the aim of the guide, the World GBC said: "The ‘Climate ...
  • Construction, Law and Being Female

    21 Oct 2022 May Winfield
    Written by May Winfield, Global Director of Commercial, Legal and Digital Risks at Buro Happold and a London Build Construction Idol for 2022. Throughout my career, I have encountered many misconcepti ...