The pace of major office retrofits in London’s Square Mile is ramping up after two more schemes were nodded through by City planners this week. It means that four office schemes were approved in July as investors sought to exploit surging demand for top-class energy-efficient offices with outdoor spaces for staff. Therise in carve and

Manchester developer and builder Renaker Build delivered record revenue last year ahead nearly a third at £229m. But inflationary cost pressure hit its high-rise residential projects causing pre-tax profit to slip to £5m from £6m in the prior year. The firm, which was set up in 2006 by former Laing O’Rourke employee Daren Whitaker, boosted

Blackpool Council has appointed Morgan Sindall Construction’s North West business as main contractor on a pre-contract services agreement to build a new £65m education campus in the town centre. The Multiversity mixed-use educational development will bring up to 3,000 students and staff into Blackpool town centre and allow Blackpool and the Fylde College to relocate

Unsecured creditors left holding unpaid bills following the collapse of modular specialist  ilke Homes last June will receive just £829,000 for the £63m they are owed. The bad news was contained in an update filed at Companies House yesterday by administrators to ilke Homes Holdings and ilke Homes Land. Ilke collapsed nearly a year ago