Latest News & Insights

Nominated for the Construction News Awards Project of the Year (£10m-£50m), St John Bosco Arts College is a bright, bold building, designed to foster creativity at an all girls Catholic comprehensive school in Liverpool. Delivered by VINCI Construction UK, the building nearly failed to get off the ground at all after the Building Schools for the Future plan […]

Something big is coming to London’s Dockland’s very soon. Over the coming 4 years, building will begin on the UK’s tallest ever residential tower on the South Quay Plaza site on the Isle of Dogs. Standing at 220 metres, the new construction will dwarf Britain’s other residential towers, climbing to encompass 68 stories. The completed structure will come […]

Welcome back to a fresh fortnight of DIY hacks! This time we’re focussing on projects that will get you out and about in the garden, giving you the perfect excuse to soak up the spring sunshine, whilst relaxing with a good old fashioned DIY project or two. Let’s make… A rotating bin composter A wooden slingshot A […]

Whether you’ve just completed a training course, or are embarking on a self employed career after working for someone else, chances are, you’re going to need to invest in some tools. Compared to things like sorting out your tax and marketing your business, buying tools may not be one of the biggest hurdles on your agenda, but they […]

Balfour Beatty has announced the extent of financial problems affecting its construction arm, claiming a trading loss of £391 million for 2014. This dreadful slump has had a significant knock on effect on Balfour Beatty as a whole, resulting in a £59 million loss on the company’s £8.4 billion turnover last year. Under new management […]

Nominated for the Building Awards Small Project of the Year 2015, Alfriston Swimming Pool, designed by Duggan Morris Architects, is an imaginative construction. Built to house a new swimming pool for Alfriston School, a state-funded facility for girls aged 11-16 with moderate learning difficulties, this striking creation melds the beautiful with the functional, resulting in an extraordinary space […]

Hello! Welcome back to another fortnight full of practical projects to get stuck into! With the weather looking a little more spring like, you have the perfect excuse to get out in the garden and down to the shed to create something cracking. Why not make… A folding pendant knife A pallet coffee table A pallet laptop […]

Congratulations! You’re ready to go solo and embark on a career that you’ve built with your own two hands. But setting up as a self employed tradesperson can feel like a daunting prospect if it’s your first time around the block. From accounts and insurance, to taxation, it can feel like there’s a whole heap of stuff you […]

Construction and development solutions provider GB Building is poised to enter administration after a select set of staff were informed that the company has filed a notice of intention to go into administration. Top and mid-level staff, alongside the company’s securities teams were told of the impending issue on Wednesday 4th March. Security staff began securing a number of […]

There may be renewed cause for optimism in the construction sector this month as the UK’s second largest house builder, Taylor Wimpey, claims that the difficult building cost rises, which saw costs burgeon by 5% last year, may have finally hit their peak. This week, Taylor Wimpey chief executive Pete Redfern announced impressive annual profits […]

Shortlisted for the 2015 Building Magazine Project of the Year and the Riba Stirling Prize, the London School of Economics’ (LSE) new Saw Swee Hock student centre is a redbrick university building with a twist. Well, more than a twist… This incredible, angular building is the multi-faceted and incredibly textural creation of Irish architects O’Donnell + Tuomey, working […]