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A new association has been set up to represent demolition contractors, called – aptly enough – the Demolition Contractors’ Association. Phil Bishop does the Q&A....

The next chairman of the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) is to be a Department for Education insider rather than a senior figure from within the construction industry....

Rail accident investigators are analysing an incident last month in which a group of track workers were nearly killed by a speeding train in north London....

The Ministry of Housing is proposing to curtail the use of desktop studies for assessing the fire performance of external cladding systems....

A building contractor has been sent to prison for five months for safety offences that led to the partial collapse of a house that he was trying to extend downwards....

A contractor carrying out refurbishment and basement extension work has been fined more than £50,000 after a Health & Safety Executive (HSE) inspection revealed a series of safety breaches....

The Building Safety Group, a health & safety consultancy, has made 10,000 independent inspections of construction sites over the past six months and found that failings in the provision of...

Environmental services specialist RSK Group continues its acquisition trail with the takeover of Non Destructive Testing Services Ltd and Copeland Wedge Associates....

Duggan Morris Architects and MRG Studio have secured planning consent for a £27m mixed-use scheme in South Tottenham....

Strathclyde University civil engineering student has won the gold medal in the men's double trap shooting event for Scotland at the Commonwealth Games in Australia....