According to market analysis by Benham and Reeves, Russian property owners, in London, spent £190m in market value and £13.2m in stamp duty tax in 2021.
Midford Manor Care Home, a 15-suite Hallmark care home development in Bath, has marked a major milestone with a topping out ceremony hosted by Savista Developments.
Dean Fazackerley, head of technical procurement, LHC Group, ponders the seven important changes within the Government’s Transforming Public Procurement Green Paper consultation response.
Kier construction has been appointed to all 12 Lots of Manchester Airport Group’s £700m Capital Works framework, which will run for five years with the option to extend by an additional three years.
Durkan, one of the leading independent housebuilding and construction companies in the South, has been appointed by Network Homes to build 158 new homes in London.
Northumbria University has been awarded funding to design and develop a new purpose-built home office within a house prototype, which will enable people to work from home and ‘age in place’.
The UK’s largest Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) has passed its factory acceptance test and started its journey to the Silvertown Tunnel project in London.
HS2 has started work on the first of 56 giant concrete piers that will support the UK’s longest rail bridge as it prepares to start tunnelling work in London.
The Crescent Gardens regeneration project in East Croydon has reached a significant milestone, with a topping out ceremony held to mark construction reaching the highest point of the eight-storey building.
HS2 has confirmed its decision to transport more building materials via freight trains to construction sites near Aylesbury, which will take the equivalent of an extra 28,500 lorries off Buckinghamshire’s roads and save 9,680 tonnes of carbon emissions.
Kier has completed construction of the new Wellingborough prison, HMP Five Wells, with the help of 19 serving prisoners, as part of the Ministry of Justice’s Prison Estate Transformation Programme.
UK construction PMI data from February indicated that business momentum has increased, with building companies showing the strongest rise in output since mid-2021.
Reports indicate that the Ukraine conflict will cause critical building material shortages and price rises that will have a detrimental knock-on effect on the global supply chain.
Scrapped cruise ships have the potential to be transformed into naturally occurring affordable housing that targets various income ranges says global architecture practice, CallisonRTKL’s Designer, Ibrahim Desooky.
BAM's General Intensive Care Unit delivered for the University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (UHS) named ‘Best Non-residential Extension or Alteration of the Year’.
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