The government will train project leaders to come from within Whitehall as it attempts to grapple with a portfolio of 206 projects worth more than £400 billion of which less than half are performing on time and on budget.
Housebuilder Bellway has increased sales by five per cent in the six months to 31 January 2012.
Regeneration specialist St Modwen unveiled a healthy development pipeline this morning despite tough market conditions as the company boasted a 34 per cent increase in pre tax profits, now up to £50.4 million.
The Olympic Park Legacy Company has begun a search for sponsors for the Olympic Stadium, Aquatics Centre and Multi-Use Arena.
Big names line up for hotel and retail project in fire damaged city centre.
Network Rail chief executive Sir David Higgins has said he will not accept his bonus this year.
Two of the leading law firms in the field of construction have confirmed plans to merge.
The chief executive of Shepherd Construction Richard Vining has left the company to ?pursue opportunities outside the business?.
National Grid has extended a contract for a Morgan Sindall consortium to carry out major enhancements to the UK?s electrical transmission infrastructure.
A planning application has been submitted for a £150 million regeneration project to replace Shrewsbury?s three existing shopping centres with one giant new facility.
Energy secretary Ed Davey today visits BRE?s innovation park in Watford in his first official appointment since replacing Chris Huhne on Friday.
Construction and support services firm?s new justice team could oversee ?tagging? of ex-prisoners and be measured on reoffending rates.
Styles and Wood, ISG and Herbert Baggaley Construction make the running
Willmott Dixon has announced it has won a £60m contract for residential work on a Greenwich regeneration scheme.
ISG has been awarded a £100 million deal to build a new Santander data centre in the East Midlands.
UK?s largest independent window and door maker falls victim to downturn
The number of construction professionals using BIM has more than doubled in two years ? but 4 out of 5 people believe the industry doesn?t yet understand its meaning.
Builders merchant tells investors there is ?no basis? for the probe
The government has confirmed that Ed Davey has been named as the new energy and climate change secretary, following Chris Huhne?s resignation this morning.
Staff dismissed from firm which worked on Burns Monument
Criminal Prosecution Service concludes there is ?sufficient evidence to bring criminal charges? against energy secretary Chris Huhne for perverting the course of justice after claims he asked his wife to accept penalty points over a speeding case in 2003.
Blue Light consortium to build and maintain four buildings for Avon & Somerset Police
Team to drain part of Royal Docks after hunting for WWII bombs
Plans for a major mixed use development on the site of the former Middlesex Hospital have been granted permission by Westminster City Council.
The government is wrong to rule out expansion at Heathrow Airport, according to a new report by business leaders including the head of the Green Investment Bank.
Builders on Camberwell site save man stranded on windowsill
Balfour Beatty Engineering Services has made an application to the High Court for an injunction restraining Unite from proceeding with a strike voted for by 295 staff today.
BRE group chief executive Peter Bonfield has said the organisation is looking forward to ?continuing to work with the Department for Education? on BREEAM.
Civil engineers will be instrumental in the fight against climate change and should look beyond ?eco-bling? and make low carbon technology mainstream, Prince Charles said today.
Contractor to manage repairs of San Francisco?s famous island prison
Taylor Wimpey and Nottingham Community Housing Association will also work on former hospital site
New venture to be led by ex-Buro Four, Hornagold & Hills and Turner &Townsend staff
Warwickshire council advertises design and build contract
Sheffield University seeks design and build contractor for student union job
East Thames Group also seeks contractor for 60 other landlords
Pair used building company to submit false VAT claims
But rate of growth slows as housing and civils work falls
Contractor to transform North and South Park for post-Games use
Evidence has emerged that suggests union representatives may have ?liaised? with contractors to blacklist workers from construction jobs.
The number of infrastructure contractors reporting increased workloads finally entered positive territory at the end of 2011 after more than three years of pain.
Network Rail will charter two helicopters during the Olympic Games this summer to help contractors receive maintenance equipment and to ensure cable thieves do not disrupt any train services.
Communities minister Andrew Stunell briefed members of the Green Construction Board on proposed changes to building regulations almost a week before they were published on Tuesday.
Rail subcontractors could receive a payment boost after Network Rail said it would consider applying its new fair payment terms retrospectively to contracts signed before October 2011.
Aggressive bidding and eurozone uncertainty will see tender prices hit harder and longer, piling the pressure on UK suppliers, it was claimed this week.
Bids have flooded in from 32 UK sites vying to be the home of the Green Investment Bank.
Tottenham Hotspur has announced it is committed to developing a new stadium at Northumberland Park.
Building owners carrying out extensions and conversions to their properties could be forced to add energy efficiency improvements worth 10 per cent of the value of the initial improvements under new building regulation proposals.
An eight-week consultation into proposals to give local communities control of decisions and budgets for major local transport schemes was launched today.
The Federation of Master Builders has confirmed that director general Richard Diment has left the organisation.
The Keepmoat and Apollo board has been reshuffled a fortnight after Ian Sutcliffe was announced as the new chief executive officer.
A call for evidence will launch in the next month with housing minister Grant Shapps determined to break the ?institutional belief against institutional investment? in the UK rented housing market.
New figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act have shown a slowdown in tower cranes going up, with a particular slowdown in London.
Contractors building the Forth Replacement Crossing have confirmed the steel for the project will be sourced outside Scotland, from Poland, Spain and China.
A Morgan Sindall joint venture has won a £28 million contract with Yorkshire Water for the design and build of a new energy scheme.
Crown Estates and Exemplar award company £50m contract for work on luxury shopping street
High Speed 2 has named 13 companies for its £350 million professional services framework.
EDF Energy has confirmed it hopes to start preparatory works on site at Hinkley Point C within weeks, with earthworks to start later this year.
Property developer Terrace Hill Group has signed a contract with Sainsbury?s for the development of a 50,000 sq ft store in Sedgefield.
A planning application has been submitted to Wandsworth Council for the redevelopment of the Market Towers office building in Nine Elms.
Commercial property markets in Europe struggled to keep pace with other parts of the world in the last three months of 2011, according to research by RICS.
Energy and power will provide the best opportunities for global revenue growth over the next 12 months, but a lack of government leadership is still a barrier to encouraging private investment in infrastructure, according to a global survey out today.
Main construction work on British Land and Blackstone?s 5 Broadgate £340m development will begin in April after the developers announced they had satisfied UBS? outstanding conditions on a pre-let tenancy agreement.
Work at Crossrail?s Pudding Mill Lane site will come to a halt between May and September due to the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Mitie has pointed to contract wins of more than £90 million in the private and public sectors as proof of a ?bouyant? pipeline and revenue being in line with expectations.
International construction consultant McBains Cooper has urged the government to expand overseas work for UK contractors who have helped to deliver the Olympic Games.
The University of Exeter has awarded Morgan Sindall a £16 million contract to build a new student accommodation block.
Draft plans for a massive regeneration project in Basildon town centre have been approved for a six week public consultation.
Skipton based JN Bentley has been ordered to pay fines and costs totalling almost £200,000 following the death of a 23 year old Keighley man.
Former Battersea Power Station owners Real Estate Opportunities have been temporarily suspended from the London Stock Exchange.
Construction in the capital rocketed by 40 per cent in the last year on the back of the Olympics - but the market is already slowing, according to latest research from Drivers Jonas Deloitte.
Balfour Beatty and Laing O?Rourke consortiums expect final decision in ?weeks?
Steve Waltho has been appointed as managing director for Europe at construction consultancy David Langdon.
Willmott Dixon says it has a potential £100m pipeline for standardised schools after Warwickshire County Council became the first authority to use its Sunesis school design.
The construction industry is fighting to keep BREEAM-accredited schools after Construction News revealed new schools may no longer have to achieve a ?Very Good? standard.
Laing O?Rourke hires former Carillion Canada senior manager Nick Down to head up its Middle Eastern team, and makes ?young gun? Callum Tuckett its head of UK construction.
Network Rail has signed a fair payment charter with the biggest names in UK construction who will be asked to phase out the practice of retentions in contracts.
Vinci Construction has been appointed by Student Castle to carry out development of the former Bristol Pro Cathedral site into student accommodation.
Morgan Sindall has been awarded a contract worth around £14 million to design, supply, install and commission 13 kilometres of 132kV double circuit cable through Nottingham.
Contractor and developer predicts strong profits despite a 13.7 per cent fall in revenue.
UK contractors are being encouraged to use evidence to lobby harder for funding for local projects.