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The UK’s heritage bodies, Cadw, Historic England and Historic Environment Scotland, have teamed up to publish a new handbook to support learners undertaking retrofit skills and qualifications

London Construction Awards 2025: Entries Now Open The countdown is on to submit your entries for the London Construction Awards 2025! The deadline for all submissions is 5pm June 6th. The London Const ...

Revised plans for Birmingham’s landmark HS2 Curzon Street station have been approved, with a major design change seeing the timber-lined roof swapped for copper-coloured aluminium panels The Mace Drag ...

New home registrations in London have slumped 38% as the capital becomes the only UK region to record a sharp fall in new housing starts.    

Robbie Blackhurst, chair of the Centre for Construction Best Practice, analyses the Spring Statement and its likely impact on the housing crisis, skills and planning

A team of French researchers has announced a breakthrough in the sustainable use of materials in 3D printed concrete, introducing a novel optimisation framework that reduces material use by up to 25%— ...

Are you tired of waiting for surveyor availability for your projects? There’s now a new option that enables any worker to fill this gap, gaining flexibility whilst also saving projects significant tim ...

The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) has today released its year-end figures for supporting construction employers and learners through its Grants Scheme. CITB provided nearly £130m in gran ...

A major carbon capture pipeline job saw utilities and property services contractor United Living top the latest Construction News monthly league table. Data from Glenigan showed that the £627m-turnove ...

Bowmer & Kirkland has been appointed main contractor for a 180,000 sq ft commercial development in Oxford.

The cement industry has collaborated to produce a new ratings system for the carbon content of cement and concrete.

DESNZ will boost green skills under its Warm Homes Plan through financial awards   

Reforms under the Planning and Infrastructure Bill to accelerate the delivery of new homes and major infrastructure could contribute between £3.2bn and £7.5bn to the economy, according to new governme ...

Hill Group and Poplar Harca’s proposals for the Teviot Estate in Poplar delayed again

The creation in the UK of one of Europe’s biggest theme parks will be good news for the construction industry, with the creation of 20,000 new jobs in the sector and a rise in training and apprentices ...

With the UK housing crisis showing no signs of slowing, the government’s latest round of planning reform, announced in March 2025, aims to inject urgency and efficiency into a notoriously sluggish sys ...

North of England contractor partners with Together Housing to meet rising demand for high-quality, accessible homes.

Greater collaboration between leaseholders and local authorities, and exploration of potential legal changes, could help residents in leasehold flats save money on energy bills, according to new guida ...

Prime Minister brings forward £300 million for Great British Energy to invest in offshore wind supply chains ahead of the Future of Energy Security summit.

Construction lawyers from Osborne Clarke review in this CPD the new building safety legal framework and what developments the industry should expect in the future.