Construction Industry News

Embodied carbon is not yet a legal requirement for most UK housing, but it is fast becoming unavoidable, as Simon Woods, European Sales, Marketing and Logistics Director, West Fraser, explains. For housebuilders, it is shaping up as the next major structural challenge after energy efficiency, with implications for design standards, material supply, planning conse...

McLaren Construction Midlands & North has completed the second and final phase of iQ Longwood Place, a major purpose-built student accommodation development near the University of Warwick, creating a new student-focuse...

Under the leadership of Kelly Linnett, CEO, MV Kelly has continued to grow from its roots as a family-run business into one of the UK’s leading civil engineering and groundworks contractors, while still firmly holding onto the values on which it was founded.

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Battersea Power Station has announced that Sisk has been appointed as the main contractor for the next phase of its 42-acre regeneration project. It will be responsible for constructing two new buildings designed by Gehry Partners, completing the neighbourhood’s pedestrianised high street, Electric Boulevard. Construction is scheduled to begin in summer 2026.

Little more than 24 hours after the Prime Minister’s resignation has brought further uncertainty to the country and to UK construction in particular, we sought the early views of leading industry figures as to what the repercussions for the sector could be.

“St...