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 →

Weston Homes will start construction work next week on a £120m residential transformation of the Denham Film Laboratories in Buckinghamshire. Demolition of ancillary buildings will take six months ahead of a two-and-a-half-year main construction programme. Work will turn the famous… Continue Reading →

Gilbert-Ash has finally agreed a £20.6m price to deliver a new theatre and heritage centre in Oldham. The project is a collaboration between the Oldham Coliseum Theatre and the Arts & Heritage Services of Oldham Council. Plans for the Union Street site… Continue Reading →

More than 80% of bosses of small construction firms will overwhelmingly base their decision to remain or leave the EU on their broader personal beliefs instead of their business interests, according to a new poll by the Federation of Master… Continue Reading →

Novus Property Solutions is progressing well with the refurbishment of two industrial buildings at the Michelin Tyre plant in Stoke-on-Trent as part of a large-scale £12 million investment programme. The project, which is designed to transform the existing warehouse into… Continue Reading →