Buildings

The football season may be drawing to a close for Manchester City Football Club, but inside the Etihad Stadium, a new challenge is on the horizon. Since 2023, contractor John Sisk has been building a new North Stand, adding 6,000 seats to increase the total capacity to 61,000 – making…

 Matthew Taylor is a partner and Aidan Steensma is of counsel at law firm CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang A recent Technology and Construction Court (TCC) decision has significantly limited the scope for claimants in building safety cases to make related parties of an original developer or contractor liable for…

The owner of a construction machinery firm has expressed frustration after a major order was cancelled days before shipping because of US president Donald Trump’s controversial tariff campaign. Construction News spoke to Richard Finch, director at Suffolk-based Plant Parts, described himself as “irritated” after a wholesaler with depots across the US…

Working on a site in the remote Yorkshire countryside, the task of building the UK’s first all-electric prison was always going to have its challenges for tier one contractor Kier. HMP Millsike’s rural location in Full Sutton, near York, led to difficulties attracting labour, as well as infrastructure issues when…

Duncan Rudall, chief executive of the National Federation of Demolition Contractors When thinking of sustainability in construction, retrofitting is often the topic that is first to mind. The argument is simple: keeping rather than replacing buildings reduces carbon emissions and minimises waste. But, while well-intentioned, retrofitting isn’t always the most…

Michael Weissman is legal director in the non-contentious construction team at law firm Howard Kennedy The UK's build-to-rent (BTR) sector has evolved strongly over the past decade and last year achieved the milestone of 100,000 built homes. According to Knight Frank, investment in UK BTR exceeded £5bn for the first…

Shy Jackson is a partner at law firm BCLP It was back in 1994 that Sir Michael Latham stated that a modern form of contract should include a specific duty for all parties to deal fairly with each other, and with their subcontractors, specialists and suppliers, in an atmosphere of…

With the government set to announce details on a generation of new towns, CN visits the UK’s only 21st-century ‘garden city’ A former police station in north Kent is the best spot to contemplate the most successful new settlement the UK has delivered this century. From their converted office at…

Charis Beverton is a partner at law firm Winckworth Sherwood Since last summer’s general election, development conversations have centred around Labour’s target of building 1.5 million homes over the next five years. In December, we heard the prime minister again double down on that pledge as part of the government’s…

Joanna Rees is a partner at law firm Blake Morgan The collapse of ISG in September created waves across the UK’s construction industry. It served as a painful reminder of the knock-on effects that insolvency can have throughout the supply chain, and the challenges it creates in both the private…