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Bellway names housing development after Second World War hero bomber pilot

Bellway has named a new development in honour of a Second World War hero pilot who crashed landed in the village after a daring bombing raid over Germany. Barton Meadows in [...]

April 21, 2022

The Importance of Scaffolding Tagging In Construction

Working with scaffolding is potentially extremely dangerous. This is a well-known fact, and we have all heard the horror stories of things going wrong when proper safety [...]

April 21, 2022

Construction work begins on summer-release homes in Oxfordshire Village

Construction work has officially started on David Wilson Homes’ upcoming Chiltern Grange development in the desirable village of Benson. The leading developer’s Managing [...]

April 20, 2022

New homes development in Blandford St Mary opens

Ashberry Homes’ new St Mary’s View development in Blandford St Mary is now open to the public. The housebuilder, which is part of the Bellway group, is building 143 new [...]

April 19, 2022

mac-group starts work on £5m college building in Birmingham

West Midlands-based construction company mac-group has started work on a £5 million teaching facility at Joseph Chamberlain College in Birmingham. The new 1500m2 [...]

April 19, 2022

Digital Construction Week reveals speaker line-up for 2022 show

Digital Construction Week (DCW) – Europe’s leading innovation and technology event for the built environment – has launched its free-to-attend programme in the lead up [...]

April 14, 2022

£7.5m contract awards = record streak for Leeds civils company

Leeds-based civil engineering firm, CORE has reported an impressive increase in demand for its services over the past few weeks with a raft of new contracts worth over [...]

April 14, 2022

Willmott Dixon chosen for £23m Corbyn Head Hotel in Torquay

Willmott Dixon continues to expand its workload in the South West with its appointment by the Fragrance Group to deliver a new £23m full-service hotel in Torquay. Situated [...]

April 14, 2022

Avoid ever-increasing rates for mains water supply

On the 1st of April 2022, Ofwat, the water regulator, introduced a one-off increase in supplier default rates, designed to protect the water industry from increased levels of [...]

April 11, 2022

Planning granted for two Travis Perkins sites designed by The Harris Partnership

A £2.3million development at the former coal yard inn Bournemouth, and a £2.8 million scheme in Cambridge each designed by The Harris Partnership (THP) on behalf of Travis [...]

April 11, 2022

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