Housing and planning minister John Healey today updated planning rules, granted nearly £10 million to improve green skills and backed the second wave of eco-towns.
Hill & Smith, the leading infrastructure and building products supplier, today reported profits up 9 per cent to £42 million on turnover down 7 per cent to £390 million.
Seven per cent more chartered surveyors reported a rise than fall in new buyer enquiries for housing in February compared with the previous month, according to RICS.
Money taken from the National Lottery to help fund the London 2012 Olympics project may never be returned, it has been revealed.
Equipment rental business Ashtead today reported that it made £8.1 million profit in the first nine months of the financial year, compared to £87.6 million for the same period the previous year.
Interior Services Group saw profits fall by 61 per cent and its turnover drop by 14 per cent in the second half of 2009.
Mears group pushed its revenues up to £470 million in 2009, boosted by huge growth in its major social housing division.
Rok today reported a 188 per cent increase in pre-tax profit despite a 29 per cent reduction in turnover.
Six more local authorities across England have today joined the Building Schools for the Future programme and will share nearly £420 million of investment from the Government.
The Government has committed £120.9 million of funding to the two further extensions on the Manchester Metrolink tram system.
The Employment Tribunal has found in favour of Balfour Beatty in the first blacklisting case to be tried following the Information Commissioner?s probe into the practice within construction firms.
The Homes and Communities Agency has chosen 87 stalled housing schemes, from the 265 shortlisted, to receive the first wave of funding from Round 2 of its Kickstart programme.
Housebuilder Select Developments has been placed in administrative receivership, with analysts blaming the recent dip in the residential property market.
Bam Construction has been appointed by Lend Lease to build the £60 million Bluewater Events Venue - a 55,000 sq ft events and exhibition venue at the Kent shopping centre.
Almost 26,000 locations have been identified where small-scale hydroelectric turbines could be installed to power 850,000 UK homes.
Bovis Homes today reported a 2009 pre-tax profit of £4.8 million compared to a loss of £78.7 million loss in 2008 after writing up the value of its land bank.
A Cambridgeshire groundwork contractor has been fined £3,500 after a worker was buried alive in an excavation collapse.
Landscape products group Marshalls saw pre-tax profit fall by 46 per cent in 2009 while turnover dropped by 18 per cent.
Businesses in the construction sector accounted for 14 per cent of all corporate insolvencies in 2009, with only firms in the business services sector more severely affected, according to RSM Tenon Recovery.
The Welsh Assembly has issued notice of three forthcoming roads deals worth a total of up to £125 million.
Construction output fell by 1 per cent in the last three months of 2009 after having risen in the previous quarter by 2.5 per cent.
Isle of Wight Council is seeking a contractor to manage its network of roads on a 25-year PFI deal worth up to £1.2 billion.
The 50th Building Schools for the Future contact has reached financial close ? bringing the total value of done deals to £5 billion.
The Government should begin tackling its fiscal deficit by abolishing VAT exemptions, rather than planned tax rises, a right-wing think tank has today recommended.
Cala Group is ditching its commercial property arm after crashing to a loss for a second year running.
Welsh steel contractor Fairfield Mabey boosted its pre-tax profit by 83 per cent in the year to 30 September 2009 but the firm said it had to cut staff to ?reflect lower demand in the market?.
Morgan Ashurst has been given approval for the first two contracts under Hull City Council?s £400 million Building Schools for the Future programme.
A Transport Select Committee has said the Government should ?give careful consideration with the frequency with which they change ministers?.
The Bank of England today left both aspects of its monetary policy on hold with interest rates remaining at 0.5 per cent and quantitative easing at £200 billion.
Temporary power supplier Aggreko today reported its turnover in 2009 passed through the £1 billion barrier.