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A competition to find a new design for Taylor Wimpey houses has been won by a London firm of architects that exploits offsite prefabrication....

Civil engineering contractor BAM Nuttall is trialling new technology to monitor tiredness levels in its construction workers....

Windows and doors manufacturer Polyframe has taken over Customade Group, its third acquisition since a management buyout last year....

A self-employed roofing contractor has been given a suspended jail sentence after an employee fell to his death from the flat roof of a building....

While some have sought to blame the structural failure at a primary school in Edinburgh last year on bad bricklaying and others have pointed the finger at PFI, for Scottish...

More than a hundred MPs have called on the government to back plans for a £1.3bn tidal lagoon to be constructed in Swansea Bay....

Haringey Council is coming under political pressure to rethink its planned £2bn development joint venture with Lendlease....

Complete Demolition Ltd has been appointed to support Vinci with elements of internal and external structural demolition on the £50m restoration of The Crescent in Buxton....

An analysis of the accounts of the UK’s top 12 construction companies suggests that they are owed more than £1 billion in cash retentions....

Our recent report about the social media reach of the UK’s biggest construction contractors has prompted response from a sprayed concrete specialist operating in a very particular niche....