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  • A standardised Lego-style system of components for school building construction has moved a step closer, after an Innovate UK-funded project developed a standardised connector to bolt together modular ...
  • Contractors have welcomed reports that Home Secretary Sajid Javid is pushing for a more flexible approach to immigration post-Brexit. Javid is understood to have asked the Migration Advisory Committee ...
  • The Tour Triangle, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, is poised to become the first skyscraper built in central Paris since 1973, after winning a lengthy court battle. Paris's administrative court has up ...
  • Materials group and UK Construction Week exhibitor Cemex has invested in Californian start-up Energy Vault, a firm that has found a way to store energy inside concrete blocks using a system inspired b ...
  • Researchers from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed the capability to 3-D print an unfurnished bathroom in less than a day. After printing, the bathroom is furn ...
  • FIS, representative body for the £10 billion finishes and interiors sector in the UK and the Steel Construction Institute (SCI), launched the much-awaited Technical Report ED017 – Design and Installat ...
  • HS2 will not offer value for money and risks "short changing" the North of England, a group of peers has warned. A report from the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee also said it was "far from ...
  • Party fleshes out plans to take control of electricity and heat networks from 'profiteering' private firms Labour has unveiled detailed plans to nationalise large parts of the UK's energy sector in a ...
  • Japan’s biggest house-builder is entering the UK market – with financial support from UK taxpayers. Sekisui House has set up in the UK with £22m of its own money and £30m from the government’s Home Bu ...
  • ISG head the top contractors table for April 2019 awards thanks to eight contracts awarded at a total cost of £350 million. A housing led re-generation scheme in Camberley contributed £20 million to t ...
  • Homeless people in Cardiff could be living in converted shipping containers by the end of the year. Work starts this month on 13 homes to be built on the site of a former vets' clinic in Butetown, wit ...
  • With its first cohort of MEng students set to graduate this year, Imperial’s Dyson School of Design Engineering has now officially opened. Founded in July 2014 with £12million from the James Dyson Fou ...
  • L & G has launched Guild Living, a £2billion fund for urban retirement homes with modern architecture. Guild Living will create around 3,000 modern retirement homes in communities across the country, ...
  • In the development of the ‘house inside a rock,’ amey kandalgaonkar took influence from the rock-cut tomb architecture of saudi arabia’s madain saleh. This ancient archaeological site expresses classi ...
  • Airbnb's offshoot design studio Samara has hired Apple industrial designer Miklu Silvanto to join the company's housebuilding initiative. Silvanto will move from Apple's industrial design department t ...
  • Swiss studio Index Architectes has designed a house in Villarlod, Switzerland, with asymmetric gables and wrapped it in a skin of angular clay tiles. Index Architectes designed the house as a modern v ...
  • The £200m bill to replace Grenfell Tower-type cladding on about 150 private high-rise blocks in England is to be met by the government. Housing Secretary James Brokenshire had previously said the bill ...
  • At least £1 billion a year needs to be spent on traditional flood and coastal defences in the face of climate change, the Environment Agency has said. But Environment Agency chairwoman Emma Howard Boy ...
  • MPs to vote on proposals for Houses of Parliament refurbishment. MPs are to vote within weeks on the creation of a London Olympics-style delivery body to oversee the multibillion-pound restoration of ...
  • The deadline to enter this year’s Construction Enquirer Awards is just one month away. It only takes minutes to submit an entry online and give your favourite firm a chance of winning. Our awards are ...
  • Latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show UK brick manufacturing continuing to rise, easing concerns about product shortages. Production numbers for March 2019 show a 6.4% rise over ...
  • The U.K. has now gone more than a week without using any of its coal-fired power stations, yet another record, and a sign that life without the dirtiest fossil fuel might not be that far away. Great B ...
  • with a total floor area of 19 sqm, the love2 house by takeshi hosaka is a small, compact hut in tokyo that manages to cater to the needs of a couple. the detached, concrete residence incorporates a ma ...
  • As part of its ongoing work for the Crossrail project, Network Rail today announced contracts for construction of new or enhanced ticket halls at Southall, Hayes & Harlington, West Drayton, Ealing Bro ...

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