National Audit Office report says taxpayer-funded scheme made payment to suspected scammer last autumn Fraudsters may have stolen £500,000 from a taxpayer-funded scheme aimed at accelerating the removal of dangerous cladding from...
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts I have lived in many countries where the windows open inwards....
Labour shortage is driving up construction costs and stopping industry from building enough homes to ease housing crisis, Master Builders says Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Leading construction bodies are...
The Webuild Group subsidiary will build the I-4 at SR-33 Interchange in Lakeland, solidifying the Sunshine State as a key market for the North Carolina contractor.
From a chatbot that speaks builders’ language to tech that corrals massive amounts of data captured from scans, this month’s offerings are aimed at simplifying complex tasks.
The Kali, part of Marriott Bonvoy’s Autograph Collection, will be located in L.A. Rams owner Stan Kroenke’s 300-acre Hollywood Park mixed-use development.
A more sophisticated planning approach is needed to build homes for more people while still providing greenery and open space Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news...
Long-delayed regulations for England may ‘encourage’ housebuilders to equip homes with solar panels, rather than requiring them Labour is considering making solar panels optional on new homes in England, after pressure from...
Program that ties new infrastructure to housing projects will start in 2027 in 10 Melbourne ‘activity centres’, premier says Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news...
Business Council of Australia also recommends phasing out stamp duty and fast-tracking migrant workers for building industry Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news...
Transport secretary says analysis of high-speed rail project unable to clarify if overrun is £10bn or £20bn Ministers are to oversee HS2 and have launched a review after the government was unable to ascertain the scale of the ballooning...
Bring in ‘future homes standard’ or leave families at risk of higher bills and emissions for decades, MPs and experts say Ministers must take steps now to ensure that all homes are built to the most efficient low-carbon standards, or...
Under-pressure housebuilder says drive to increase UK housing stock could generate long-term growth Business live – latest updates The under-pressure builder Bellway has hailed the government’s planning system revamp, arguing it will...
In the face of sexism, harassment and unequal pay, a group of women in the construction industry offers support and empowerment to their colleagues Not long after teenager Reyna Quispe started working in construction in Bolivia, she...
In the early days of Kamp Studios, Kim Collins and Amy Morgenstern were barely making rent. Now they’re a favorite of interior designers across the country If there was a low point in the history of Kamp Studios, it had to have been the...
A warning from Mark Robinson that a skills crisis could scupper the government’s £22bn carbon capture strategy Rachel Reeves’s pledge of £22bn for carbon capture projects across the UK brings the promise of jobs and a revitalised economy...
FTSE 100 company once known as Bovis Homes says profits will shrink over three years after it underestimated building costs Business live – latest updates More than £1bn was wiped off the value of housebuilder Vistry on Tuesday after it...
CMA accepts undertakings by both housebuilders to address concerns over a potential local competition issue The £2.5bn acquisition by the UK’s biggest housebuilder, Barratt, of its smaller rival Redrow has been given the green light by...
The ‘yes in my back yard’ voices are getting louder, but housebuilding quality is more important than quantity At the Labour party conference, one buoyant new faction stood out: the yimbys. After hosting a packed reception at Liverpool’s...
Dr Lorens Holm says new housing schemes need to be integrated into public spaces and amenities, not increase isolation and dependence on cars. Plus letters from Frances Heywood and Richard James Illidge John Harris insists that housing...
In response to an article on planning approvals falling to a 10-year low in England, Kate Henderson argues for a big increase in social housing funding while Jon Barker points to the large number of unbuilt planning permissions The new...
Greens MP says state’s political donations laws should be reviewed amid scrutiny over money flowing to Labor and LNP Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The Queensland Greens have called on Labor and the Liberal...
Queensland political donations laws have not stopped money flowing from companies linked to the industry into parties’ election campaigns, Guardian investigation finds Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our...
Lendlease has won a contract worth £80m ($115.7m) from Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) to redevelop the former Royal Mail sorting office at Copperas Hill into a university building.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has signed an agreement with the city’s major airlines and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for a $1.3bn infrastructure project at the O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois.
Ssangyong Engineering & Construction’s Dubai unit and China State Construction Engineering (Middle East) have secured a contract worth AED1.4bn ($381.1m) from Nakheel to build The Palm Gateway at Dubai’s master development Palm Jumeirah.
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has won a contract worth INR27.59bn ($405.8m) for building a supercritical thermal power project in Tamil Nadu, India.
Strabag, through its Polish subsidiaries, has secured two road construction contracts worth PLN484m (about $120m) from Poland’s General Directorate for National Roads and Highways (GDDKiA).
A consortium led by Ferrovial subsidiary Cintra has won a contract valued at €1.01bn from the Slovakia Ministry of Transport to design, construct, finance, operate and maintain the beltway around Bratislava, Slovakia.
Engineering solutions provider Costain has secured an early contractor involvement (ECI) contract from Lancashire County Council for the Preston Western Distributor and associated link roads.
The project involves the construction of 20,000 modern low-cost houses, a school for 2,000 orphans, a home for 2,000 elderly people, five six-lane bridges over the Yangon river, retail units, and the installation of requisite sewerage...
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has granted a $112.3m loan to the Moroccan National Railways Office (ONCF) to upgrade infrastructure on the Tangier-Casablanca-Marrakech railway route.