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Lancashire’s Construction Partnership UK Limited has been put up for sale, having fallen victim to coronavirus...

Highways England has signed an alliance with six companies to develop, design and construct the future smart motorway programme....

Scottish house-builder Springfield Properties has agreed an additional £18m loan facility with Bank of Scotland to give it financial headroom for even a 12-month shutdown....

Edinburgh City Council is adapting its planning service to ensure that decisions can continue to be taken with the aim of avoiding project delays once lockdown ends....

One of Forterra’s brickworks is restarting production this week, as is the Bison Precast facility in Swadlincote – but most of its plants will stay closed until June or July....

Redrow has joined the ranks of major house-builders reopening sites that were closed last month ago for the coranavirus lockdown....

A House of Lords committee is recommending that the government rethink its reforms of the IR35 off‑payroll working rules....

Construction union Unite has called for the Health & Safety Executive to ramp up site visits to police social distancing on sites....

Site work on Tunbridge Wells Borough Council’s Amelia Scott Building project in Kent remains on schedule with contractor Willmott Dixon observing new site operating procedures....

Some of the Interserve workers who are turning the Birmingham NEC into a makeshift field hospital have been kitted out with special backpacks that signal when they get too close...