Partnership housing specialist Lovell has been selected by Sandwell Council to carry out a £9.7 million, 18-month improvement programme for three blocks of flats at the Lion Farm Estate, Oldbury in the West Midlands. The internal and external refurbishment of… Continue Reading →

Historical maritime buildings in the harbour of Wick in Caithness, Scotland, will be brought back into operation when renovated to act as the hub for one of the largest new offshore wind farms in the UK. Work is well underway… Continue Reading →

Fit-out firm Morris & Spottiswood has secured a £3m contract to transform student accommodation at the University of Edinburgh. Work has now started at the Kincaid Court campus which is the university’s largest self-catered residence containing more than 250 bedrooms. Morris… Continue Reading →

The Manchester College has commissioned international design and technology firm, IBI Group, as the lead architects for the £20m overhaul of their Openshaw, Harpurhey and Wythenshawe campuses as part of their five-year estate strategy. The IBI Learning+ design team will… Continue Reading →

Architect Frank Whittle Partnership (FWP) will help deliver a new £3.4m project to re-develop the historic Fratry Building at Carlisle Cathedral. FWP has been appointed project manager and quantity surveyor on the development in the heart of the Cumbrian city, which… Continue Reading →

A builder has died after being overcome by toxic fumes during  refurbishment work on a luxury property in London’s Notting Hill. Medics battled to save him on the street after he was dragged from the five-storey property by firefighters last… Continue Reading →

Balfour Beatty and two of its subcontractors have been fined a total of £1.27m after workers were exposed to asbestos while refurbishing a school in Waltham Forest. Southwark Crown Court heard that on 24 July 2012 a worker removed part… Continue Reading →

A mobile tower crane driver made a dramatic escape when his machine tipped over in Reading town centre at the weekend. The man managed to clamber down from his cab over 60 feet in the air to escape on to… Continue Reading →