ISG has been awarded a £10 million project to transform a disused leisure centre into a new free school in East Leeds as part of the EFA Framework. The former East Leeds Leisure Centre site will become the new permanent… Continue Reading →

RICS UK Construction Market Survey, Q4 2015 Property industry pay packets on the rise, as labour shortages cause sector wage inflation. • Construction skills shortage pushes industry wages up by more than 6% in 2015 • 61% of property professionals… Continue Reading →

Property maintenance specialist, Novus Property Solutions, has recently completed work converting a Grade II* listed former town hall into a modern academy building in Stoke-on-Trent. The grant-aided refurbishment project, which involved a complete reimagining of the space to turn the… Continue Reading →

Three blocks of flats, containing 270 homes, in Glasgow have been given a new lease of life thanks to a unique Structural External Wall Insulation (SEWI) system from housing specialists Structherm. The trio of 16 storey high rise buildings, West… Continue Reading →

Government plans to fund the restoration of 18th Century Tadcaster Bridge to the tune of £3.3m are being blocked by Samuel Smiths Brewery, who described the plans as “a waste of public money”.  Samuel Smiths owns the land that is… Continue Reading →

A charitable trust and a contractor it employed has been fined for safety failings after disturbing asbestos and continuing to work in a building. The Williamson Trust is responsible for the running of a school academy where Mark Tucker was… Continue Reading →

Nottingham construction firm DL Rhodes & Son has won a £6m deal to transform one of Derby’s biggest office blocks into 156 new apartments. St Peter’s House, a large eight-story office block building on Gower Street, will be converted over the next 18… Continue Reading →

Sheffield University’s plan to linked its two oldest buildings with a four-storey high glass atrium have been given the nod by city planners. The Four-storey atrium space will house laboratories, offices and a café.  The dramatic undulating glass roof structure will create… Continue Reading →