Plumbing and builders’ merchant chain Wolseley confirmed a 2.9% fall in UK revenue today as it continued with plans to shut 80 branches and a major distribution centre laying off up to 800 staff. The firm unveiled the UK streamlining strategy… Continue Reading →

Wigan Council is renewing its panel of builders to deliver a backlog of schools repairs and new buildings. The council expects to spend around £50m over the next four years to 2021. This will be split into around £15m small works up… Continue Reading →

National fit out and refurbishment specialist Overbury has been contracted to build and advise on the redevelopment of Deloitte’s UK headquarters, one of the first projects in the UK to target both a BREEAM Outstanding rating and a WELL Building… Continue Reading →

Palmer Court in Lenton has been named the best new social housing development in the country at this year’s LABC Building Excellence Awards. Nottingham City Homes and Nottingham City Council’s flagship independent living scheme, designed by John Thompson & Partnership… Continue Reading →

Queen’s Park Place provides 144 ‘tenure-blind’ homes in a 16,000sqm scheme of three buildings for Bouygues Development and Londonewcastle. A key project in the South Kilburn Regeneration Area, the high quality development deals skillfully with a difficult site bounded by… Continue Reading →

The University of Bristol has unveiled plans for a £300m new campus project to sit at the heart of the city’s Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone. The derelict site of the former Royal Mail Sorting Office at Cattle Market Road, near… Continue Reading →

St Albans Cathedral has received the St Albans Civic Society’s Trevelyan Prize Commendation 2016 for the cleaning and restoration of the Cathedral’s west front at a special ceremony on 11th October.  Cliveden Conservation and Richard Griffiths Architects were recognised as part… Continue Reading →

ISG is understood to be a front runner in the race to secure Westminster City Council’s £60m project to refurbish its City Hall building in London. Council chiefs are pressing ahead with the headquarters overhaul as maintenance of the 1960s… Continue Reading →