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A new Volvo EC140E excavator has joined the fleet of Stenhousemuir-based David Fisher Contracting and a second unit is tentatively on order....

Ridgway Rentals has announced a £17.5m investment in - mostly UK-built - new machines following a three-year period of consolidation....

Osborne has reported record profits and a growing order book of secured sales....

Bouygues UK has signed a £250m construction contract for the University of Cambridge’s new physics laboratory after working on the project development....

UK contractors’ order books have filled up considerably this financial year, but high input costs are fuelling fears of a subdued market ahead, according to the latest UK market intelligence...

WSP has been appointed to produce a strategy for new transport infrastructure along with upgrades to meet growing demand in Milton Keynes....

Sales in August through builders’ merchants were up 3.5% on the same month last year, with timber and landscaping driving the growth....

Bentley System has bought a London-based provider of pedestrian simulation software and a Swedish firm whose systems are used in city planning....

The Environment Agency has awarded a joint venture of Galliford Try and Black & Veatch a £19.9m contract for an improved flood defence scheme at Burton-on-Trent in Staffordshire....

More needs to be done to help engineers raise concerns about safety in order to avert future failures, says a new report from the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE)....