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Costain and Network Rail have completed £40m-worth of repairs to the railway at Dover three months ahead of schedule. The line between Dover...

The government has dropped plans to put the National Infrastructure Commission on a statutory footing. What was going to have been a Neighbourhood...

The mayor of London has approved plans for up to 10,000 new homes to be built in Barking. Sadiq Khan gave his consent...

Network Rail has identified nearly 200 sites across the country that it can release for house-building. Network Rail is finalising plans to release...

Westminster City Council has introduced a levy on the construction of basement extensions. The levy is as part of the council’s new code...

A 23-storey block of flats for the private rented sector in Greenwich is to be built from modules made in a factory in...

UK exports of construction and earthmoving equipment continued to show modest growth in the second quarter of 2016, and reverse the declining trend...

North Lanarkshire Council has announced its biggest investment in council housing for a generation. It will spend £159m adding a further 1,000 houses...

A new study confirms the need for improvements to a 62-mile stretch of the A1, saying that it could create safer, quicker and...

The Department for Transport has shortlisted five routes for the proposed multi-billion-pound Trans-Pennine road tunnel linking Manchester and Sheffield. All five routes link...

A report published yesterday by the Department of Transport says that improved connections between Oxford, Milton Keynes and Cambridge could boost the economy....

Havebury Housing Partnership plans to invest £4.5m in the redevelopment of its Westbourne Court sheltered accommodation in Haverhill. Havebury is looking to create...

When London Underground rail track curves, the sleepers are usually made of wood – until now, that is. The first of a new...

The government’s Construction Leadership Council has published a new payment charter for the construction supply chain. The difference between the new Construction Supply...

June’s figures from the Office for National Statistics show a 0.9% drop in construction output compared to May. In response, the Civil Engineering...