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Major firms trial software to count carbon via invoices
Balfour Beatty, Morgan Sindall and Galliford Try are trialling a new technology…
Post-Grenfell ‘golden thread’ regs threatened by glut of digital platforms
The ‘golden thread’ of building-safety information mandated after the Grenfell tragedy may…
Modular pier production begins for HS2’s Thame Valley Viaduct
Offsite production of the first of 68 precast concrete piers to support…
Govt appoints firms to ‘standardise’ MMC for housebuilding
Government plans to standardise modern methods of construction (MMC) would remove barriers…
L&G to stop making modular homes
Legal & General (L&G) will stop producing modular homes as long planning…
Building firms among most likely to be hit by cyber fraud
Construction businesses are among the most likely to fall victim to cyber-facilitated…
Persimmon among new investors in modular builder TopHat
Modular housebuilder TopHat has secured a £70m investment from the markets and…
Laing O’Rourke pledges low-carbon concrete on all new schemes
Laing O’Rourke has announced that it will switch to using low-carbon concrete…
Modular nuclear firm launches £900m equity raise
A UK and EU-based company developing small modular reactors (SMRs) has announced…
Lack of semiconductor strategy branded ‘act of national self-harm’
Ministers have vowed to publish a strategy to tackle the semiconductor shortage…
Kier and Laing O’Rourke among £10bn offsite framework winners
Twenty-nine firms have been named on a £10bn offsite framework to help…
400km hydrogen pipeline planned for North Sea
Plans have been revealed for a new 400km pipeline underneath the North…
Whitehall commissions new offsite standard
The government has commissioned the British Standards Institution (BSI) to develop a universally…
Major project plans ‘a struggle’ due to industry’s failure to modernise
National infrastructure goals are being undermined by the construction sector’s reluctance to…
Deadline looms to ‘engage’ with power lines megaproject
Contractors have only nine days left to join procurement discussions for a…
Gleeds lands role on £10bn UK fusion project
Gleeds has been picked to deliver procurement, commercial and cost-management services for…
Offsite specialist announces factory expansion
Offsite construction specialist Merit has announced a 4,000-square-metre expansion of its North…
Kier’s Glasgow prison masterplan submitted for planning
A masterplan for a new prison in Glasgow, designed by Kier, has…
Cost of living and climate emergencies ‘to accelerate innovation’
The cost-of-living crisis and a sharp focus on the need for environmental…
Onshore wind-farm ban to be removed
The government has announced a consultation on onshore wind farms, reversing the…
