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Prime minister Theresa May made a big speech on house-building yesterday, donned a Hi-Vis vest and posed for photos on a Barratt building site....

UK brick makers were unable to satisfy domestic demand last year, often leaving house-builders to rely on imports....

Brick maker Ibstock has appointed Joe Hudson of LafargeHolcim to be its next chief executive....

Images of construction and construction machinery figure prominently at this year’s Royal Society of British Artists exhibition in London later this month....

Galliford Try is gunning for business in the highways sector and has recruited two key men from Carillion to lead the campaign....

The Unite union has voiced concern at the prospect of Laing O’Rourke taking over Carillion’s stalled Royal Liverpool Hospital project....

Laing O’Rourke’s accounts for the year to 31st March 2017, overdue since 30th September, are finally filed today and show a loss of £60.6m....

The Federation of Small Businesses has written to the joint committee of MPs investigating the collapse of Carillion setting out the questions that the politicians have so far failed to...

Fastflow Group, a utilities and property services specialist, has acquired affordable housing developer Partner Group for an undisclosed sum....

The latest monthly survey of construction purchasers indicates the industry is struggling to get out of second gear in 2018....