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Houses are being built at the speed they are because if they were built any quicker, prices would come down....

The £2.4bn mixed-use development under construction in Stratford, east London, has received a boost with the forward sale of one of the major blocks being built....

The government is planning to give more weight to social value when awarding public contracts and put less emphasis on price....

A government advisory body has produced proposals to extend Crossrail to the Ebbsfleet to link up with the High Speed 1 rail line and mainland Europe....

Network Rail’s plans for new contract terms to protect subcontractors, announced last week, have been generating more rave reviews from across the industry....

HS2 has set out plans to plant seven million new trees and shrubs along the 216km phase one route between London and Birmingham....

Network Rail has launched a competition to find new design ideas for footbridges....

Sales at UK builders’ merchants were up 8.8% by value in April 2018 compared with April 2017, helped by two extra trading days and an earlier Easter....

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan is to join several local authorities in take legal action against Heathrow Airport expansion plans....

A Devon painting and decorating contractor must pay £130,000 for health & safety breaches following the fatal overturning of a truck-mounted aerial platform....