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Highways England has published an updated delivery plan, setting out work completed to date, what is under way and the seven highway projects to start by spring 2018....

Blackburn-based General All-Purpose Plastics Ltd has bought SIG Building Plastics and SIG Windows from SIG UK Exteriors....

House-builder Weston Homes is offering a £20,000 reward for information leading to the return of machinery and material stolen from its Southend storage facility last months....

Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital is closing its trauma unit over the fire risk presented by its cladding....

Brick and block producer Forterra, formerly Hanson Building Products, has reported 11% growth in revenues for the first half of 2017 on the back of growth in the house-building sector....

Taylor Wimpey has reported half year profits of more than £200m before tax even allowing for the cost of reforming its controversial leasehold policy....

Breedon has taken over Humberside Aggregates Ltd for £9m....

Nearly half of the entire construction industry workforce is paid through the Construction Industry Scheme, latest figures reveal....

A-one+, the awkwardly named highway construction joint venture, has produced a pair of time lapse videos showing the demolition and reconstruction of a bridge over the M180 near Scunthorpe....

The UK government’s Air Quality Plan, published last week, missed a trick by ignoring the opportunities offered by pollution-eating photocatalytic technology in building materials, according to one manufacturer....