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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....

The government has commissioned the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) to conduct a study into how technology can improve infrastructure productivity....

Seven suspected illegal immigrants working on the construction of the Queensferry Crossing have been arrested....

Chancellor Philip Hammond’s 2016 autumn statement has received a notably cooler response than usual from the construction industry, judging by comments received....

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