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  • Eight contractors have been chosen by'SCAPE'to'help local authorities and public sector organisations'deliver ambitious, community-focused construction projects up to a value of '7.5m from 26 August 2 ...
  • The new chair of the government's Levelling Up Advisory Council has been announced as Andy Haldane, a former Bank of England chief economist and head of the Levelling Up Taskforce. ' The Levelling Up ...
  • As part of the company's commitment to net zero, Tarmac has placed an order with'Renault Trucks'for the first battery electric mixer truck in the UK. ' Due to be delivered in Autumn 2022, the electric ...
  • ' Homes England and Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) have entered into a Strategic Place Partnership, piloting a new model for partnership working between the government's housing and rege ...
  • Kier Places has been appointed to Lot Group 2 ' Hard Facilities Management, Lot 2b and Lot 2c on the CCS Facilities Management and Workplace Services RM6232 Framework. The'RM6232 Framework'focuses on' ...
  • As part of the NHS's 'Delivering a Greener NHS' programme, NHS Property Services(NHSPS) has published its first three-year'Green Plan'to provide long term sustainable models of care, greener travel an ...
  • London Bridge City'has been presented with the prestigious Secured Environments award on 13th June 2022 by Guy Ferguson, chief executive officer,'Police CPI The'estate, located in an iconic neighbourh ...
  • Kier has partnered with AFC Energy to trial a clean hydrogen power generator unit at one of its sites in the South West, for eight-weeks The hydrogen power generator, called the Power Tower, utilises ...
  • Birmingham City Council has approved planning permission for two railway viaducts in the city centre which will join'Curzon Street Station'with the HS2 project. The Curzon Street Approach consists of ...
  • Prisons minister Victoria Atkins has announced that thousands of new prison places will be built across England as part of a '500m construction deal with Kier and Wates.' Kier and Wates have been awar ...
  • The British Property Federation ('BPF') has launched its'Net Zero Pledge'to cut carbon emissions across the whole of the property sector. ' As the built environment accounts for up to 40% of global gr ...
  • Arcadis has been appointed by Birmingham City Council to deliver the next phase of the 'Our Future City Plan', which will look at the city's development to 2040. The'Our Future City Plan (OFCP) was in ...
  • Kier Highways has announced that it has become the first UK highways business to achieve an industry standard in social value ( SVQM Level 2). ' The Social Value Quality Mark is an independent social ...
  • ' The Investment Room has appointed LH1 London to launch phase two of The Printworks, a landmark residential development in Bradford. Phase two of The Printworks will comprise 137 luxurious one and tw ...
  • The government has announced four major road schemes in Newcastle, Cornwall, Greater Manchester and Southampton, which it claims will generate an estimated '659.3 million in economic benefits for the ...
  • Balfour Beatty VINCI Joint Venture, HS2 Ltd's construction partner,'has begun trialling the world's first electric drilling rig on a construction site in Warwickshire. ' The 100-tonne electric drillin ...
  • Skanska'has announced that the company reached a construction milestone at The Earnshaw Building project earlier this month The Earnshaw Building project will include two separate buildings ' one of w ...
  • National framework provider'Pagabo'has appointed 48 suppliers to its new '1.56bn civils and infrastructure framework The new civils and infrastructure'framework'will allow local authorities and public ...
  • Balfour Beatty'has announced that it has secured a '50m London Underground contract to deliver essential upgrade works to the Piccadilly line. The'London Underground'contract is the first of several p ...
  • Canada Water'has unveiled a new 53-acre London regeneration scheme, which will deliver up to 3,000 new net-zero homes, and leisure, cultural and education facilities. The'Canada Water regeneration sch ...