Friday, 28 December 2007
Trade union Unite is holding a rally in Manchester in January to campaign against the exploitation of agency workers.
Thursday, 27 December 2007
Twenty-one architecture and built environment centres from around the country will receive £1.8m funding from CABE over the next two years.
Thursday, 27 December 2007
Rochdale council leaders have unveiled plans to spend £73m in 2008-9 on new leisure, affordable housing and safer community projects.
Monday, 24 December 2007
Workers in the engineering and construction sector are among the professionals most likely to commit petty crime, according to new research.
Saturday, 22 December 2007
Eon, one of the UK's leading green generators, has announced that offshore construction of its £325m Robin Rigg Wind Farm has started in the Solway Firth.
Saturday, 22 December 2007
Capita Symonds, have been awarded the contract to manage the development of the new £193m Library of Birmingham.
Saturday, 22 December 2007
Vital planning applications for two multi-million pound regeneration projects in Southwark, London have now been approved.
Friday, 21 December 2007
Proposals are under way to rebuild Wirral Pier in Merseyside.
Friday, 21 December 2007
Carillion has now completed the sale of equity in its Public Private Partnership projects to Land Securities Trillium for £21.5m.
Friday, 21 December 2007
Drivers on the A46 and M40 in Warwickshire are to benefit from a £76.8m scheme, to be built with £70.9m of Government funding, to ease congestion and improve safety, Transport Minister Tom Harris announced yesterday.
Thursday, 20 December 2007
A new bridge is to be built across the Firth of Forth at a cost of £4.2bn.
Thursday, 20 December 2007
Demolition on the five main permanent venue sites – the Olympic Stadium, the Aquatics Centre, the International Broadcast Centre/Main Press Centre, the VeloPark and the Olympic Village – has been completed.
Thursday, 20 December 2007
Construction group Kier, bidding as part of the Land Securities Trillium consortium, has been appointed preferred bidder by Kent County Council to deliver over £100m worth of schools.
Thursday, 20 December 2007
Designs for Liverpool’s new Stanley Park stadium will be decided in January.
Thursday, 20 December 2007
A London school is to be demolished and replaced with a new modern building for 1,200 pupils, council bosses have announced.
Wednesday, 19 December 2007
Government plans to invest over £4bn in the existing housing stock ignores the fact that an estimated £700m of this amount will go straight back to it because of the current VAT rate of 17.5% on repairs and maintenance on home improvements, says the Federation of Master Builders.