Building products giant SIG has reported a pre-tax loss of £106.3m for last year as it revealed another strategy change to the City this week. The firm issued a profit warning last November and said it would be accelerating a… Continue Reading →

Two London contractors have been fined more than £600,000 for safety failings after one man died and another was left seriously injured falling six storeys down a lift shaft. Southwark Crown Court heard how work was being carried out to… Continue Reading →

Developer Stoford has been appointed to lead the £200m redevelopment of the former Typhoo Tea building and adjoining canal basin in Birmingham. The Gooch Estate, owner of more than 10 acres of land around Typhoo Wharf in Digbeth, aims to create… Continue Reading →

Major new development plans for Liverpool and Birmingham were unveiled on the first day of the MIPIM property show in Cannes this week. Liverpool City Council launched the hunt for a development partner to create a new “cultural garden suburb”… Continue Reading →

MILLER BIRCH is to deliver a major £120m development on the 2.31 acre site of the former Central Fire and Police stations and adjacent Guildhall Place. Improvements to the 300,000sqft Guildhall Place could see a four-star hotel, offices and in… Continue Reading →

A Victorian building and teaching space at Bishop Grosseteste University (BGU) has been transformed into a modern, flexible learning facility, thanks to a £350k refurbishment. Work to improve the Centre for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (Celt Building) at… Continue Reading →

Interserve is tipped to take the £20m job to connect Sheffield University’s two oldest buildings with a four-storey high glass atrium. The dramatic undulating glass roof structure will create an ‘Engineering Heartspace’ below and connect the Grade II listed Mappin Building with… Continue Reading →

Commenting on the new construction output figures published by the ONS today which show a fall in output, Michael Thirkettle, Chief Executive of leading interdisciplinary international construction and property consultancy McBains Cooper, said: “Today’s figures show a real recovery for… Continue Reading →