JD Architects (JDA) has recently completed its ambitious redevelopment of Cinque Ports Street, the 1,050 sq. m. former Central Garage site in Rye. Derelict for fourteen years, these buildings have been given a new lease of life with a striking,… Continue Reading →

ISG has further strengthened its relationship with global professional services firm, KPMG, after securing a further two commercial office fit out projects in Bristol and Glasgow. These latest wins build on ISG’s successful delivery of new office accommodation for KPMG… Continue Reading →

Skills shortages and fears over the Brexit vote have seen bricklayers’ wages hit £1,000 a week as competition for site workers intensifies. A survey of construction recruitment firms by the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) found 63% of agencies saw… Continue Reading →

Smaller contractors are being urged to apply for places on the Education Funding Agency’s new £6bn schools framework. The agency is currently consulting on the new deal after previous framework deals were criticised for being too main contractor heavy. Richard… Continue Reading →

The Dover Harbour Board is calling up contractors to bid for a £135m job to build a new cargo terminal, waterfront development and marina. Construction of Dover Harbour’s Western Docks programme is set to start on a 24-month programme in the final… Continue Reading →

A window fitting company and the principal contractor at a construction site have been fined for safety failings after a worker fell a total of three metres while installing glazed units Bournemouth Magistrates’ Court heard how on 4 November 2014… Continue Reading →

ISG has scooped the job to refurbish and extend the University of Oxford’s Tinbergen Building to create new chemistry teaching laboratories. Designed by Sir Leslie Martin and named after Nikolaas Tinbergen, joint winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Physiology… Continue Reading →