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The Unite union has warned of risks to workers due to a cut in the number of frontline health and safety inspectors....

The Scottish branch of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) has published a trio of papers proposing changes to the planning system....

VolkerRail has bought specialist equipment for the installation of new overhead line masts for its work on phase three of the North West Electrification Programme....

Gleeds has won a dual role as cost manager and sustainability consultant for Associated British Foods’ new £55m bakery in Bardney, Lincolnshire....

The wheels of justice grind slowly. It takes an average of three years and four months for any sentence to be handed down after a workplace fatality. Campaigners are calling...

Builders’ merchants’ daily sales were up again in February 2017, despite the wet weather....

Morgan Sindall’s professional services business, BakerHicks, has appointed Mark Renshaw as associate director to head up its civil and structural engineering team in London....

Laing O’Rourke has recruited a City grandee to chair its board, suggesting that the company has an eye on a stock market listing....

Specialist subcontractor CMF Ltd has been ordered to pay more than £200,000 after the death of a man during construction of the recently completed Frances Crick Institute building in London....

Kent-based Hague Construction has been fined £100,000 following the death of an employee after a simple lifting operation went wrong....