Aureos to build £45m Howden relief road

the Howden relief road planEast Riding of Yorkshire Council has awarded the main construction contract for the planned Howden relief road scheme to Aureos, the company previously known as Keltbray Infrastructure Services until its private equity buyout last year.The...

Welsh school scores more than 93% on BREEAM

Ysgol Dyffryn AeronYsgol Dyffryn Aeron, built by Wynne Construction in Ceridigiaon, has secured a 93.69% rating under the Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) 2018 education scheme.The new £16.3m facility in Ceredigion, which...

Octavius wins £30m Somerset road works

The  A38 Major Road Network (MRN) improvement scheme includes works at nine locations along the A38 running between Barrow Street junction at Barrow Tanks and the Edithmead Roundabout (M5 J22), across the local authorities of both North Somerset Council and Somerset...

Decline in construction insolvencies

Latest data from the Insolvency Service shows that there were 324 construction insolvencies in April 2025. This is a 13.8% decrease from the previous month – there were 376 construction insolvencies in March 2025 – and a 19.8% decrease from a year before. There were...

Builders fined after four injured in house collapse

The first floor collapse during remediationAryn Stones Ltd had been contracted to build a new domestic property in Hampstead. On 31st May 2022, remedial works were being carried out on a partially built beam-and-block floor, when it collapsed, taking two of the...