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The High Court has ordered a Welsh council to pay Alun Griffiths £3.3m – and dismissed its argument for postponing payment as “spurious”. In an earlier adjudication, Carmarthenshire County Council was ...

A Midlands housing association is procuring for an eight-year new build framework valued at more than £3 billion.  Communities & Housing Investment Consortium Limited (CHIC), in Birmingham, has extend ...

Oxford Street in London is set for a major overhaul – reportedly costing £90 million.   Westminster City Council and business management consultant New West End Company (NWEC) have signed a Memorandum ...

A 1.5 million sq ft commercial scheme in Canada Water has been approved by Southwark Council. Co-designed by BIG and HWKN Architecture, the 4.5-acre site will be one of London’s largest developments i ...

A £2.5 billion subsea electricity superhighway has taken a step forward following the appointment of a consortium to its delivery team.   Eastern Green Link 1 (EGL1) will see a 525kV, 2GW high voltage ...

Pair attempting to reach agreement on final bill at huge redevelopment of west London site  Laing O’Rourke and its client on the £600m scheme to redevelop the Olympia exhibition venue are understood t ...

Construction contractor Bam has brought in Spot the robot to survey former atomic weapons testing facilities that are too hazardous for people to enter.

Communities which support wind farms could be given up to 50% off their energy bills Rishi Sunak has implemented a delayed plan to relax planning rules for onshore wind schemes following a second rebe ...

Researchers from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT) in Australia have developed a method to make concrete 30% stronger with recycled coffee grounds.

Nearly 5,000 homes will be built for a new neighbourhood in Manchester – forming part of a much wider regeneration scheme in the city.  Developer Far East Consortium (FEC) has secured approval for two ...

Remedial work to England’s poorest quality housing could provide £135.5 billion in societal benefits over the next 30 years. These benefits include savings to the NHS, lower energy bills and carbon em ...

A free platform to help construction workers learn about addressing climate change through retrofitting has been launched by NatWest and the Supply Chain Sustainability School. NatWest Group is the Su ...

A European alliance of workplace experts has uncovered what’s in store for the future of the office, creating AI mockups of what these spaces will look like in the next 5,10, 25 and 50 years. By looki ...

Mace has been appointed to the Department for Transport’s (DfT) STARThree Framework, securing a host of consultancy service packages.  The framework, valued at £600 million, brings in suppliers who ca ...

The government has announced nearly £4 million of funding for green innovations. AI solutions are set to receive funding to accelerate industrial decarbonisation and transform the way industries cut t ...

Willmott Dixon has been chosen as preferred contractor for its latest Passivhaus project, a £14.5m new two-form entry primary school for 420 pupils aged between four and 11 years old in Basingstoke, H ...

McLaughlin & Harvey (M&H) is on site for the restoration of the historic Granton gasholder in Edinburgh. The bell of the gasholder on Granton Waterfront has been taken apart to provide a high-quality ...

The City of London Corporation has released a new report urging investment in workers to meet the growing demand for green jobs and skills in decarbonising Central London’s commercial buildings. The r ...

Ten Tier One firms are in the running to provide a critical upgrade of the electricity network in Scotland to the end of the decade.   Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) Transmission ha ...