
Construction Industry News
Hercules acquires line worker supplier
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/06/1751008918_advantage-nrg-pb-route-13.jpeg Advantage NRG supplies workers for overhead electrical transmission lines AIM-listed…
DBR opens crafts skills centre
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/06/1751006542_dbr-skillls-centre.jpg DBR’s Craft Skills Education Centre team DBR, which works on the repair and maintenance of…
Strong growth for Morris & Spottiswood
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2024/09/1727335847_jon-dunwell-ceo-morris–spottiswood.jpg Morris & Spottiswood chief executive Jon Dunwell Morris & Spottiswood…
Sunderland gets prefab training centre
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/06/1751005225_hicsa.jpg The Housing Innovation & Construction Skills Academy in Sunderland The Housing Innovation &…
Merchants’ sales on the rise again
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/01/1738306612_bmbi.jpg After nearly three years of declining sales revenue, it seems like builders’ merchants are starting to firmly…
PTSG adds roofing business
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/06/1751005058_sharmans.png Sharmans specialises in commercial roof maintenance and refurbishment systems Premier Technical Services…
Balfour Beatty signs £833m Teesside Power deal
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/06/1750926461_net-zero-teesside.jpg CGI of Net Zero Teesside Power Net Zero Teesside Power is an onshore power, capture and…
New owner for Cubby Construction
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/06/1750918147_cubby.jpg Investment group Svella expects to complete the solvent acquisition of Cubby Construction within the next few…
NHS tickles market on £2.3bn construction consultancy framework
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2022/01/1642592262_ambulance.jpg NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) is seeking market input on the fourth iteration of its healthcare…
Willmott Dixon to remodel Barnes Hospital
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/06/1750872754_barnes-cgi.jpg CGI of the scheme Willmott Dixon is converting Barnes Hospital into an NHS mental health facility and a…
Hochtief targets data centres
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/06/1750916937_warren-taylor-165.jpg Warren Taylor, managing director of Hochtief Data Center Partner Limited Hochtief has established…
Ernest Park breaks ground on Basildon flats
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/06/1750872478_basildon-market-place.jpg After several months of demolition and site preparation, building work has begun on a…
Construction Skills Mission Board gets around the table
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/06/1750876397_angela-rayner.jpg Deputy prime minister Angela Rayner [photo from MHCLG’s Flickr feed] There has been a lot of…
Re:Construction podcast – Episode 180
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/06/1750865088_reconstruction-episode-180-social-image.151911.jpg It’s all big infrastructure in this episode, with Bishop &…
Cowi promotes UK boss
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/06/1750833520_andy-sloan.jpg Andy Sloan Andy Sloan, managing director of Cowi in the UK and Ireland, has been made executive vice…
Government brings in consultants for greener roads
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/06/1750831702_foggy-road.jpg National Highways, the government agency that looks after trunk roads and motorways in England, has…
New chief for Keepmoat
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/06/1750831018_keepmoat—ian-hoad-headshot–2-.jpg Ian Hoad Keepmoat has promoted Ian Hoad from divisional chairman to chief…
Ballymore to develop Limmo Peninsula
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/06/1750829762_limmo-penisular.png Limmo Peninsula is just across the river from the O2 Arena (Millennium Dome) Places for London,…
VolkerRail earns Croydon tram contract renewal
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/06/1750829641_volker-rail.png VolkerRail has secured an extension from London Trams following continued achievements throughout the…
Robot brickie builds Durham houses
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/06/1750773536_wltr-2.jpeg Five years after it was first unveiled in the Czech Republic, the WLTR computerised brick-laying machine,…
Hull plans infrastructure investment
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/06/1750750163_hull-bridges-and-structures-montage-2.jpeg Some of Hull’s bridges and structures Hull City Council has developed…
Southwark picks Bouygues to build key worker housing
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/06/1750748794_b100790-druid-street-sketch-view–c–prp-architects.jpg Sketch of the view from Druid Street [© PRP Architects] The…
Changes at Barratt North East
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/06/1750747048_kerry-moore-and-neil-milburn.jpg Kerry Moore (left) and Neil Milburn Barratt and David Wilson Homes North East…
Quality group calls for HSE to lose Building Safety Regulator
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2024/08/1723100175_bsr-logo.png The Association of Construction & Quality Professionals (ACQP) has called for the Building Safety…
Henry Brothers in for Twycross Zoo project
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/06/1750674948_twycross-zoo-orangutan.jpg Henry Brothers will build a habitat designed specifically for Bornean orangutans [image from…
Aureos to build £45m Howden relief road
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/06/1750661199_howden-relief-road-plan-18-6-25-ws.jpg the Howden relief road plan East Riding of Yorkshire Council has awarded the…
Welsh school scores more than 93% on BREEAM
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/06/1750659895_ysgol-dyffryn-aeron-photo-2-jpg.jpg Ysgol Dyffryn Aeron Ysgol Dyffryn Aeron, built by Wynne Construction in…
Octavius wins £30m Somerset road works
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/06/1750659818_octavius-a38-mrn-win-1.jpg The A38 Major Road Network (MRN) improvement scheme includes works at nine locations along…
Decline in construction insolvencies
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2020/04/1586153447_locked-gate-padlock-chain.jpg Latest data from the Insolvency Service shows that there were 324 construction…
Builders fined after four injured in house collapse
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/2025/06/1750659489_hse-collapse2.jpg The first floor collapse during remediation Aryn Stones Ltd had been contracted to build a new…