A £1.7bn project placing Wales at the forefront of renewable energy innovation has been revealed by an international consortium. The ambitious project proposed for Swansea’s waterfront refloats stalled tidal lagoon renewable energy plans, featuring underwater
Month: October 2021
Chancellor to detail £7bn spending pledge for local transport
Chancellor Rishi Sunak is planning to detail plans in the Autumn spending review on Wednesday to pump £7bn in local transport improvements in Midlands and Northern cities. The pledge will amount to around £1.5bn or
Cladding panels “dislodged” from McAlpine hotel job
Roads around a Hilton hotel being built by Sir Robert McAlpine in Woking were closed last week when cladding panels became “dislodged”. Following the incident at the £540m Victoria Square development Cllr Ayesha Azad, Leader
Weston Homes plans £100m London flats scheme
Volume house builder Weston Homes has bought part of a former textiles dyeing factory complex in south east London for a £100m multi-storey flats scheme. The 4.6 acre Dylon factory site will be transformed with
£35m Nottingham art school gets green light
Plans for a £35m university building in Nottingham city centre have been given the planning go-ahead Work will start early next year on the nine-storey block, which will house Nottingham Trent University’s School of Art
Liverpool student block developer goes under
Subcontractors and suppliers across the North West are braced to lose millions after the company behind the 16-storey Natex student accommodation scheme in Liverpool fell into administration. Mount Group Student Natex was developing the £45m
HS2 downsizes Euston station to save costs
HS2 is sliming down the planned Euston station terminus in a bid to save cost and programme time. The station will now move to a simpler 10 platform design from the originally planned 11 platforms.
Murphy trials AI warning cameras at site danger zones
Murphy & Sons is trialling the latest artificial intelligence site cameras to increase worker safety on its sites. The camera warning system monitors key exclusion zones and restricted plant and people zones on sites sounding an
Sheffield Hallam University’s £220m city campus gets nod
First phase plans to develop Sheffield Hallam University’s city campus with three new buildings have got the green light from planners. Now BAM Construction will start construction work in early 2022 under its ground-breaking pain-gain sharing alliance
End of timber shortages in sight
Near record-breaking softwood timber imports have replenished stocks to a level needed to meet the demand surge from construction. This brings the prospect of an easing in supply bottlenecks once ongoing delivery issues from a shortage