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 →

The government is reviewing building regulations in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire. The move comes as new detailed cladding test results revealed 82 towers do not meet current standards. The latest tests were of a wall cladding system… 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 →

A third of small building firms say that soaring material prices are squeezing their margins and almost a quarter have had to pass these price increases onto consumers, according to the latest research by the Federation of Master Builders (FMB)…. Continue Reading →

Following the success of phase one, Higgins Construction plc has been appointed to deliver phase two of construction of new homes and estate improvements in King Square Estate in Islington. Phase two will consist of a total of 93 new… Continue Reading →