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Newcastle City Council expects to sign a deal “shortly” with Morgan Sindall to replace Willmott Dixon on a long-delayed £34m leisure centre project in the city. The local authority this week insisted that work on the West Denton scheme, initially due for completion over a year ago, would finally start…

By Gino Spocchia Network Rail has submitted long-awaited proposals to overhaul London’s Liverpool Street station to planners. The plans for upgrading and redeveloping the central London station were submitted to the City of London this yesterday (7 April), reported Construction News’ sister magazine Architects Journal. The scheme, which features huge…

Wates has been given the job of repairing Parliament’s crumbling Victora Tower after the competitive tender process for the job failed for a second time. Construction News revealed in April 2024 that the tender for the then-£95m job had to be re-run after errors were made in documents used in the…

Bam has backed out of a project to build a new £671m children’s hospital in Belfast just weeks after it was named as one of the contractors.   The firm was due to develop the Royal Victoria Hospital as part of its ongoing joint venture with Northern Ireland-based Graham Construction. …

Paying £1,000 to construction mental health charity Lighthouse Club could help housebuilders unlock cheap finance under a Homes England-backed green loans scheme. Under round two of the Greener Homes Alliance, unveiled yesterday (3 April), the housing watchdog and Octopus Real Estate have committed £150m in discounted finance for small and…

A key figure has called for an “industry-wide adoption” of conflict-avoidance processes (CAPs) after the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) introduced fresh measures to help construction firms avoid court battles. Len Bunton, chair of the Conflict Avoidance Coalition (CAC), hailed updated guidance from the RICS and contracts provider NEC…

A minister in the devolved Northern Ireland Assembly has described delays to a £72m waterfront regeneration project in Northern Ireland as “a source of frustration”. DUP communities minister Gordon Lyons said he had “waited decades” for progress on the redevelopment of Queen’s Parade in Bangor. It is almost six years…

Technology is changing. And so is Construction News. Our editorial team has been using artificial intelligence (AI) behind the scenes for some time now to summarise long reports and data as part of our research process, as well as produce some illustrations. But we have not used it to produce…

Bouygues UK has been awarded a £119m contract to build two new campuses in the Welsh town of Barry. Work on the Barry Waterfront Campus (BWC) and the Advanced Technology Centre (ATC) will begin in June with a completion date of summer 2027. The educational facilities, developed by the Welsh…

The construction skills funding package announced at the weekend totals £745m across the entire UK, Construction News has discovered, but three quarters of the cash will not be spent before April 2027. On Saturday night (22 March), the government trumpeted a £600m skills boost for the sector. However, Spring Statement…