
Construction Industry News
Government rebrands construction training
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2023/09/1694677157_gleeson-bricklayers.jpg Figures from the Office for National Statistics show around 35,000 job vacancies in the…
McLaren lands £100m flagship LSE redevelopment
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/08/1754981603_lse-firoz-lalji-global-hub–credit-david-chipperfield-architects–1437-08-c-dca-n-n6.jpg 35 Lincoln’s Inn Fields is to…
Scottish house-builder doubles profit
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/08/1754980537_bancon-homes-directors-portraits-10.24-hires-006.jpg Bancon Group chief financial officer Andrew Tweedie (left) and…
Etec to modernise West Wickham leisure centre
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/08/1754980482_north-west-corner—day-reduced.jpg CGI of the new look West Wickham Leisure Centre The London Borough of Bromley has…
Knights Brown wins £29.4m Poole flood defence scheme
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/08/1754980213_poole-bridge-to-hunger-hill-team-photo-at-poole-bridge.jpg The project team (left to right): Dominic Perris and…
Willmott Dixon chosen for £14.4m Sheffield city centre project
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/08/1754980094_event-central-front-elevation.jpg Sheffield’s planned Event Central Willmott Dixon has been appointed main…
Hill strikes Dacorum partnership deal
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/08/1754980001_dacorum-hill.jpg Hill Group director Tom Hill and Dacorum Borough Council leader Cllr Sally Symington House-builder The…
Ealing estate regeneration revived after contractor’s collapse
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/08/1754979934_green-man-lane.png Ealing Council and housing association A2Dominion have agreed a deal that moves them a step closer…
Morgan Sindall completes UK’s most accessible castle
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/08/1754979444_norwich-castle-entrance-%C2%A9-norfolk-museums-service.jpg Norwich Castle entrance [© Norfolk Museums Service] Morgan…
Engineers claim their facade design tool slashes costs
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/08/1754898446_parametric-analysis-inside-daylight-c.-buro-happold.jpg Buro Happold’s parametric analysis Consulting engineer…
Marshalls interims below expectation
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/08/1754893323_image-from-marshalls.co.uk.jpg image from marshalls.co.uk In the six months to 30th June 2025 Marshalls saw operating…
Big Birmingham bridge op begins this week
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/08/1754892474_lawley-middleway-ready-for-move—3.jpg Lawley Middleway bridgework ready for moving into place Contractors for HS2 are…
Aecom releases Alfreton bridge images
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/08/1754892146_view01—alperton-footbridge—architect-erik-behrens-aecom.jpg Alperton footbridge has been designed by Aecom…
New owner for London Lintels
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/08/1754892056_london-lintels.jpg London Lintels has joined a diverse group of businesses within Sean Milbank’s Milbank Group…
Volkerfitzpatrick wins £18.6m airfield resurfacing works
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/08/1754636959_volkerfitzpatrick.jpg image from volkerfitzpatrick.co.uk Volkerfitzpatrick, which recently resurfaced the runways at…
Cheetham Hill moves to employee ownership
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/08/1754635256_howard-chamberlain.jpg Howard Chamberlain Cheetham Hill Construction (CHC) transitioned to an employee ownership trust…
Wates executive to run Barking Riverside
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/08/1754633933_leigh-johnson-new-md-barking-riverside-limited.jpg Leigh Johnson Leigh Johnson has been appointed managing director of…
McLaughlin & Harvey to build Guy’s £100m surgery block
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/08/1754633559_guys-1.jpg Architect for the project is Ryder The government has given approval to Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation…
Asbestos fail at A1 Property Maintenance
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2012/05/1336719075_sil-services-asbestos.jpg A Manchester-based construction company has been fined after workers were put at risk of…
Mace selected for £1.1bn British Library development
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/08/1754564093_illustrative-view-of-scheme-from-midland-road.jpg The British Library extension is designed by RSHP and Arup Mace has…
Expansion for Wakefield consulting engineer
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/08/1754551851_hj-headshots-1–4-.jpg Left to right are HJCE founder directors Andy Jennings and Mark Holloway with new managing…
Breheny bags Bearsted Road works
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/08/1754550181_bearsted-road.jpg Bearsted Road roundabout Kent County Council has confirmed that construction work on its A249…
Manchester tram work up for renewal
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/08/1754547201_metrolink.jpg Manchester Metrolink has 147 trams, 100km of track and overhead line, 99 stops and two depots Transport…
Caddick wins £28m Bilston contract
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/08/1754545863_caddick.png Left to right on site are Dominic Goold of Goold Estates, Wolverhampton council leader Stephen Simkins and…
Pilot to reuse building materials expands to the East End
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2024/02/1707719466_bricks.jpg Tower Hamlets Council is joining the ROMULUS scheme – Reuse Of Materials Using Local Unitary Stakeholders –…
RICS survey reveals flat workloads but continued optimism
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2023/08/1691046537_hq-building-westminister-parliament-square-rics.jpg The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) describes its…
Re:Construction podcast – Episode 183
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/08/1754489927_reconstruction-episode–183-website-image.jpg From Roskill to Arora, Bishop & Taylor discuss Heathrow expansion…
It’s getting worse – PMI takes another dive south
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/08/1754478774_pmi-clip.jpg The graph is pointing in the wrong direction. See below for the bigger picture. According to the latest…
House-builder offers free electricity for customer data
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/08/1754462640_pastures-place.jpg The Pastures Place development in Corby Glen, Grantham Barratt Redrow has teamed-up with British Gas…
Avove moves into Northern Ireland
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/08/1754460947_avove-ireland.jpg The Avove Ireland team Avove, formerly Amey Utilities, has taken over the Northern Irish operations…