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There has been a management buyout at one of the UK’s largest independent concrete flooring specialists, enabling the founders to retire....

Willmott Dixon has reported nearly 50% growth in half-year profits and unveiled a new corporate structure....

After doubling its turnover to £9m in the past three years, Bristol-based John Perkins Construction has added to its management team to maintain growth momentum....

A Derbyshire construction company has been fined more than a quarter of a million pounds after a worker was injured in a roof fall....

Leading contractor Laing O’Rourke has called for an end to labour-only subcontracting in the construction industry and a move to direct employment of the workforce....

Sales of building materials through UK builders’ merchants rose by 3.8% in the three months after the EU referendum, compared with the same period of 2015....

Viridor parent company Pennon has approved a £252m investment in an energy recovery facility to be built at Avonmouth....

Construction of a £160m road scheme has been delayed after an ornithologist secured a judicial review....

Shopping centre developer NewRiver Retail has submitted a planning application for a £60m mixed-use regeneration of its Templars Square shopping centre in Cowley, Oxford....

Local government secretary Sajid Javid has used a major house-building industry function to lambast the big developers for hoarding land instead of developing it....