Latest official statistics show construction output in decline, driven partly by a decline in private sector house-building and commercial building work – and partly by too many days off.
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The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) wants a demolition levy introduced in Scotland to ‘level it up’ with the VAT payable on renovation work.
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Wigan Council has given Keepmoat Homes planning permission to build 169 new homes in Worsley Mesnes.
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Vital Energi has been awarded a £3.1m contract to design and build the energy centre for phase 3 of Berkeley Homes’ Woodberry Down development in north London.
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Flat-pack modular house-builder Starship Group has moved its manufacturing operations from Deeside to Wirral Waters.
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A plumber has been fined for being uncooperative in an interview with a Health & Safety Executive inspector.
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A specialist brickwork contractor in the northeast is reporting a substantial upturn in work in recent weeks after a slow start to the year.
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The Canal & River Trust has awarded civil engineering framework contracts together worth up to £500m to JN Bentley and Kier.
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Just a year into the project and contractor Laing O’Rourke is already putting in the concrete terracing on Everton Football Club’s new stadium.
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Vistry Group’s change director, Roger Morton, has joined Willmott Dixon in the same role.
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Network Rail has signed an agreement with EDF Renewables UK to purchase solar energy for its offices, depots and railway stations across the country.
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Plans for a canalside regeneration scheme with more than 100 new flats have been submitted to the London Borough of Hounslow.
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