The London-based builder projects a bump in revenue and backlog even as it said it faced delays in a number of its U.S. projects in the second half of 2024.
Construction firms say high borrowing costs and weak consumer confidence hitting housebuilding demand Activity in Britain’s construction industry picked up in November but housebuilding weakened, throwing the government’s new homes...
Jit Kee Chin, chief technology officer for the Boston-based builder, talks about what programs the company uses on and off the jobsite and why the hype around IoT is waning.
A report from cybersecurity firm ReliaQuest found that spearphishing, an attack personalized to a victim, is an increasingly prominent threat for construction contractors.
Thinktank urges government to be ‘much more ambitious’ as actions so far are not enough to fulfil manifesto pledge Labour will miss its manifesto target of building 1.5m homes in England before the end of this parliament without more...
Deputy prime minister announced acceleration plan and criticised pace of works seven years after Grenfell fire Dangerous cladding on all high-rise buildings in government-funded schemes in England will be fixed by the end of 2029, Angela...
Website says its tradespeople are ‘guaranteed’, but some customers say they have lost thousands after using it A woman claims she was conned by a convicted criminal, and another householder says he was threatened by a self-styled hitman...
Cambridge councillor Jean Glasberg on how large-scale developments can be pushed through by the government in an area that’s the driest in the country George Monbiot is right to warn us about the use of soil and carbon credits as part of...
Readers respond to Polly Toynbee’s article about the tussle between central government and local planners in Kent Polly Toynbee’s piece misses the central point about the housing crisis ( In Kent, Labour has a fight on its hands – and a...
New Queensland premier must tread carefully to avoid culture wars that plagued party’s government Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast It’s been just a month...
Refurbishing an old building is subject to full VAT, but it isn’t if you build a polluting new one. The government’s priorities are all wrong You can damn oil companies, abuse cars, insult nimbys, kill cows, befoul art galleries. But you...
The French cement giant started operating in Syria just before the civil war erupted. When Islamic State took over the region, Lafarge paid them protection money so it could keep trading. The consequences are still playing out. By...
Union members hit out at LNP as deputy premier announces pause on pay and conditions policy Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast A “sweetheart deal” for the CFMEU has been suspended in an unprecedented crackdown...
Beijing’s model is hitting roadblocks. It needs to move toward more home-grown spending – even if one-party politics makes that hard China faces what the economist Albert Hirschman noted decades ago: explosive growth is unbalanced, and...
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Shadow cabinet secretary Claire Coutinho accepted donation from Lord Bamford while overseeing millions awarded to his family businesses in green grants A Conservative former cabinet minister who took donations from the billionaire boss...
Sumptuously textured, carbon negative and just a bit more expensive, hempcrete is being increasingly used in eco-friendly building Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Michael Leung first came across hempcrete...
Firm issues second profit warning in a month after review into ‘understated’ build costs in south division Shares in the FTSE 100 housebuilder Vistry have plunged after it issued a second profit warning in as many months and said cost...
Remedial action to make the cladding on buildings safer could take 20 years. In the meantime, we can avoid repeating the mistakes of the past The Grenfell Tower fire of 2017 was a tragedy. Preventing its repetition is a fiasco. The...
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...
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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...
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...
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.