Repair work on 17 schools shut down in Edinburgh because of defective construction work will take until August to complete. Building defects were discovered last month in schools across the city built by the Edinburgh Schools Partnership  under a £360m… Continue Reading →

Work has reached the halfway stage on a £7 million improvement project which aims to give a new lease of life to three Salford tower blocks. Mulberry Court, Sycamore Court and Magnolia Court in Pendleton were built in the 1960s… Continue Reading →

The Lawtech Group has completed a comprehensive programme of refurbishment works on the Cedars Estate in Lambeth, making improvements to 370 maisonettes to reduce energy bills and create more comfortable homes for hundreds of residents. The improvement works on the… Continue Reading →

ISG has completed a £2.3 million refurbishment of an office block at 100 West George Street in Glasgow. Designed by Bennetts Associates on behalf of Whiteburn Projects and London & Scottish Investments, the work has created over 19,500 sq ft… Continue Reading →

Resortation of the (recently named) Elizabeth Tower, which houses the iconic ‘Big Ben’ bell, is due to start in early 2017, with an estimated cost of £29m. The bell will be silenced for several months to repair the clock faces… Continue Reading →

Salaries for small building firms are soaring as a result of the growing skills shortage, according to the Federation of Master Builders (FMB). Commenting on the results of the FMB’s State of Trade Survey for Q1 2016, Brian Berry, Chief… Continue Reading →

Morgan Sindall has started its £70m scheme to transform Lambeth’s Town Hall and civic buildings. The Your New Town Hall scheme will see Morgan Sindall revamp the Grade II listed Brixton Town Hall, to create a more open and accessible… Continue Reading →