Nationwide Construction Recruitment Blog

Developer confidence is running high across England’s three major cities despite the present economic headwinds.

Heavy side product producers have reported a second quarter of falling sales impacted by a slide in project starts.

The Government has floated plans to force main contractors to publish their retention payment policies and release records in a raft of proposed reforms to existing payment reporting laws.

Birmingham City Council has granted planning approval for HS2’s £275m Washwood Heath Depot.

Joint venture developers Stanhope and Mitsui Fudosan UK have got the thumbs up from local planners for an 800,000 sq ft extension to the British Library site near St Pancras in London.

Plans to build a landmark building at Chiswick Roundabout in London have passed through planning after four previous schemes in the past 25 years failed to materialise.

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has pledged that HS2 would connect to London Euston as originally planned, responding to a Sun press report that the line could stop at Old Oak Common because of ballooning costs.

Construction output is now expected to fall by nearly 5% this year after economists at the Construction Products Association sharply downgraded forecasts.

Plans have been submitted for a pair of mixed-use schemes in Derby to deliver around 1,300 homes and 300,000 sq ft of commercial space around the Derbion shopping centre.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has pledged to bring forward legislation to build the Westminster Holocaust Memorial next to Parliament.