Nearly three quarters of construction firms want to scrap the training levy and the CITB according to a major new survey. The research was conducted by Survation and commissioned by payroll giant Hudson Contract who are embroiled in an on-going legal dispute with the CITB over levy payments. A total of 1,042 companies responded to

Staff at BAM Construction are facing a round of job cuts after the Dutch parent group revealed this morning that Manchester’s delayed Co-op arena job plunged the UK construction business  £19.5m into the red in the first six months of the year. Royal BAM Group said it had suffered a ‘substantial loss’ on the project

A company that pioneered a way of building tunnels entirely with robots has gone into administration. HyperTunnel developed the automated construction method at its research facility in the North Hampshire Downs where it unveiled the world’s first entirely robot-constructed underground structure in 2022. It claimed to build tunnels more than 10 times faster and at

Wates Group has agreed a partnership deal with Guildford Borough Council to develop a site in the heart of the Surrey town The £86m Guildford Park Road development will transform a car park site into an urban neighbourhood of 248 homes with 40% affordable housing. The council is committing up to £40m from the Housing