Construction Industry News
Higgins four face manslaughter charges
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/05/1747140819_police.jpg image from rawpixel.com London Metropolitan Police have charged both Higgins Homes and four men in…
Finnish precast firm plans UK headquarters
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/05/1747130317_hyperion-robotics-foundations-1–1-.jpg 3D printed concrete foundations produced by Hyperion Robotics Hyperion Robotics…
Renew has taste for further acquisitions
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2022/11/1669709621_paul-scott-renew.jpg Renew chief executive Paul Scott Since getting rid of Walter Lilly & Co Limited last October,…
London no longer world’s costliest city to build
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/03/1741589508_1663002367-arcadis-logo-copy.jpg Geneva has again overtaken London as the most expensive city in the world in which to…
Construction apprenticeships oversubscribed by 135 to 1
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/05/1747116530_seddon-apprentices-1.jpg Seddon apprentices While the UK construction industry continues to insist that young people in…
Midgard wins £145m Birmingham residential tower
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/05/1747057991_edition-birmingham-1.jpg Edition Birmingham will comprise the 46-storey Centenary Tower and 15-storey Park Residence…
Ramboll acquires environmental consultant
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/05/1747057866_ramboll-034.jpg Signing the deal are (left to right) Ramboll UK managing director Neil Sansbury, Ramboll Environment…
Morgan Sindall starts £38m Caerphilly leisure centre
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/05/1747036000_caerphilly-allianceleisure.jpg CGI of the planned Caerphilly Leisure & Wellness Hub Caerphilly County Borough…
Developers accused of fire safety cynicism
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/05/1747035046_blenheim.jpg CGI of Blenheim Square, 17.7 metres high and one staircase The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) and a coalition…
Design team revealed for £2.5bn York Central Regeneration
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/05/1747033453_16172-cam-aerial-match-01-optimisation-exercise-240701–large-.jpg The York Central masterplan Allies & Morrison,…
Sisk wins £44m Pudsey road scheme
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/05/1747030278_dawsons-corner-junction-aerial.jpg Dawsons Corner, the junction of the A647 and the A6120 ring road Leeds City Council…
House-builders exposed for cheating on nature commitments
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2024/06/1719559924_homes-for-nature-hedgehog.jpg 83% of promised hedgehog highways were absent A study of housing developments has found…
Construction product manufacturers optimistic after mixed first quarter
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2020/07/1595225003_builders-merchant-1.jpg It was a mixed start to the year for manufacturers of building products but rising demand is…
Bromford Tunnel breakthrough [–with video]
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/05/1747030543_hs2-tunnel-boring-machine-mary-ann-completes-first-tunnel-breakthrough-in-birmingham.jpg TBM Mary Ann completes the…
Kier wins Great Yarmouth college renewal
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/05/1746775551_east-coast-college-external-shot-1–002-.jpg CGI of the new East Coast College campus Kier has won a multi-million…
Milestone reached on Coventry VLR
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/05/1746774648_vlr-section-of-track-resized.jpg Section of the VLR track in Coventry A 220-metre single-track demonstrator for the…
Travis Perkins lures Gavin Slark
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/05/1746772675_slark.jpg Gavin Slark The board of Travis Perkins has chosen Gavin Slark, currently chief executive of SIG and…
London mayor to relax green belt restrictions
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/05/1746771098_sadiq-khan.png Mayor of London Sadiq Khan Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has revealed that City Hall is exploring the…
Improvements required at Dounreay after toppled load
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/05/1746770009_dounreay.jpg The Dounreay site The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has issued an improvement notice to Nuclear…
Work starts on world’s oldest in-situ cast-iron railway bridge
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/05/1746769783_crawshaw-woods-bridge-routeview-image.jpg Crawshaw Woods Bridge today Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) engineers have…
Danes cancel Hornsea 4 wind farm
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/05/1746687105_orsted-hornsea.jpg image from Ørsted Ørsted said that it was cancelling plans for the 2.4 GW Hornsea 4 project, off the…
McKinstry invests in construction waste recycling
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/05/1746685637_kiverco.jpg McKinstry has awarded Dungannon-based Kiverco a contract to design, manufacture and install a £16m…
Employment abuse: still work to be done
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/05/1746685497_achilles-report-cover.jpg Achilles, a supply chain management software company, has published its latest UK Ethical…
Roadworks contractor gives motorists the heads up
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/05/1746685387_wj-alert.png Why don’t they all do that? In a UK first, drivers using popular navigation apps, such as Google…
Van Elle outsources heavy haulage
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2019/06/1560765669_vanelle02.jpg Van Elle has agreed a five-year heavy haulage deal with WS Specialist Logistics. This will include the…
PMI: Fourth successive month of construction decline
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/02/1738841805_timber.jpg Construction companies noted that a wide range of items had risen in price, particularly timber, concrete…
MPs fear nature levy will hit BNG
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2012/09/1346916555_long-grass.jpg A report from the cross-party House of Commons environmental audit committee (EAC) warns that without…
Three bridges for Spencer
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/05/1746594535_kessock-bridge.jpg Kessock Bridge Spencer Bridge Engineering has been appointed to carry out works on Kessock Bridge,…
HBF recruits Barratt Redrow talent manager
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/05/1746594378_andy-george-director-of-industry-attraction-and.original.png Andy George Andy George joins the HBF from Barratt Redrow,…
Project managers increasingly confident about net zero
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/05/1746594394_planet-earth-globe.jpg A survey of 1,000 members of the Association for Project Management (APM) has found that 52% of…