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Arada's £2.5bn plan for Thameside

The Construction Index — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 07:48:00 +0100

Sharing its plans for Thameside West, and a new DLR station, Arada has announced the appointment of Arup, Gensler and Planit to work on the project.

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Ground engineering trio for Sizewell C

The Construction Index — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:07:00 +0100

Balfour Beatty Ground Engineering, VSL Systems (UK) Ltd , and Bachy Soletanche will team up to deliver geotechnical works for Sizewell C, including piling, soil mixing, diaphragm walls, and plastic cut-off walls.

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Sparrow lands Allison Homes IT role

The Construction Index — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 08:47:00 +0100

Allison Homes has appointed Andrew Sparrow as head of enterprise architecture, as the company strengthens its leadership team.

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Balfour Beatty to deliver £120m Leeds inner ring road renewal

The Construction Index — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 08:39:00 +0100

Balfour Beatty has been appointed by Leeds City Council as sole contractor for the seven year maintenance, renewal and structural improvement strategy for the city's inner ring road.

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Premier Forest to reopen Croespenmaen site

The Construction Index — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 08:31:00 +0100

Premier Forest Products is to restart operations at its Croespenmaen site, after SDL Sawmills closed. A number of SDL employees will join the company.

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Heidelberg gets Somerset OK for quarry reopening

The Construction Index — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 08:22:00 +0100

Seeking to secure limestone supplies, Heidelberg Materials UK has agreed planning conditions with Somerset Council to reopen the 160m tonne Westdown quarry, near Frome.

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Thames Water seeks tenders for £227m sewer cleaning

The Construction Index — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 08:15:00 +0100

Thames Water Utilities is seeking to establish a framework for sewer rehabilitation and cleaning.

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TfL to help care leavers build careers

The Construction Index — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 08:05:00 +0100

TfL property arm Places for London, with Heathrow, Lower Thames Crossing, and Gallagher Group, have partnered with Fatima Whitbread's charity to help care leavers join the construction industry. At the launch, Whitbread was joined by two young people who have recently completed courses with The Skills Centre and started apprenticeships with Marlborough Highways.

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Tilbury Douglas tops out £100m Dorset emergency department

The Construction Index — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:44:00 +0100

Tilbury Douglas has celebrated the installation, by Bayards, of the rooftop helipad at Dorset County Hospital's new emergency department and critical unit, topping out the structure.

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Rodgers to lead Expanded's geotechnical business

The Construction Index — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:37:00 +0100

Laing O'Rourke has appointed Clare Rodgers to lead the geotechnical business of its Expanded subsidiary. Rodgers moves to the role from Select, where she was lifting solutions leader.

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£200m Holborn Circus office ready for redevelopment

The Construction Index — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 07:55:00 +0100

Evans Randall Investors has received all needed consents for the £200m WilkinsonEyre-designed redevelopment of Thavies Inn House at Holborn Circus, London, ready for demolition contractor Erith and lead contractor McLaughlin & Harvey to start work.

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Severn Trent to launch £25bn framework pre-engagement

The Construction Index — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 07:46:00 +0100

Severn Trent Water is preparing to initiate early engagement with the supply chain for a new generation of capital delivery frameworks, representing up to £25bn of investment over the next 8–15 years across the Midlands.

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Bristol and Bath wins for Red Group

The Construction Index — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 07:35:00 +0100

Red South West, part of Red Group, will deliver the Buckley Gray Yeoman-designed Portwall Place, Bristol, for BlackRock and LS Estates, worth more than £34m, as well as Buro Happold's £8m new headquarters at Pinesgate West, in Bath, for WPV Developments, designed by AWW Architects.

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Consent for Smithfield offices

The Construction Index — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 07:16:00 +0100

Railpen, the Railways Pension Scheme, has secured planning consent for 12 Smithfield, part of the Museum of London-anchored transformation of the City's former meat market.

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Citizen renovates acclaimed maisonettes

The Construction Index — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 08:45:00 +0100

Citizen has invested £2.1m in a project to renovate post-war Coventry maisonettes. The work was led by Equans and supported by funding from the Matrix Housing Partnership and the West Midlands Combined Authority.

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Clarion, Taylor Wimpey, mark Poplar homes progress

The Construction Index — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 08:35:00 +0100

Clarion Housing Group and construction partner Taylor Wimpey, with project partners Equals Consulting, have marked the topping out of 116 new homes built for Tower Hamlets Council in Poplar, London.

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Perkins&Will to transform Oxford shops into labs

The Construction Index — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 08:28:00 +0100

Perkins&Will has secured planning permission from Oxford City Council to redevelop Ozone Leisure Park as a mixed-use campus for research, leisure, and community, while preserving a 12th Century farmhouse.

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Amey aims for consulting growth with advisor appointment

The Construction Index — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 08:21:00 +0100

Amey has appointed Jonathan Goring as executive advisor, charging the HS2 and Neom programme leader with strengthening its consulting pipeline.

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Morgan Sindall tops out Aylesbury school

The Construction Index — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 08:12:00 +0100

Morgan Sindall Construction’s Northern Home Counties has topped out a £13m extension to The Kingsbrook School, built for Buckinghamshire Council through the Southern Construction Framework (SCF).

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Hyperion raises funds for robotic microfactories

The Construction Index — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 08:03:00 +0100

Hyperion Robotics, a Finnish company developing AI-powered robotic microfactories, located close to project sites, which will produce infrastructure components faster and with less CO2 emissions, has secured funding for a new facility in Flixborough.

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Laing O'Rourke builds manufacturing capacity

The Construction Index — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 07:48:00 +0100

Laing O'Rourke is investing in building capacity at its Crown House Technologies Manufacturing (CHtM) and Explore Manufacturing facilities, as it seeks to modernise its industrialised construction processes.

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Heidelberg takes the heat off power sector

The Construction Index — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 07:39:00 +0100

Heidelberg has launched a range of products designed to support the energy sector, with high thermal conductivity and low resistivity, to allow heat to dissipate from high and ultra high voltage underground cables.

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Barratt Redrow promises £400m share buyback

The Construction Index — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:45:00 +0100

Barratt Redrow, in a trading update announcing the completion of 17,667 homes in its 2026 financial year and profits before tax 'in line with expectations', has proposed to return £400m to shareholders.

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Helical proposes share buyback

The Construction Index — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:30:00 +0100

Helical, sharing a trading update for the period from 1 April to 15 July 2026, has proposed to extend a share buyback programme, supported by recent sales and leasing agreements.

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Solomons announces partners for collaboration collective

The Construction Index — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:14:00 +0100

Quantity surveyors Solomons Europe and NEC expert Dr Jon Broome have announced that AVRS and Meldrums will be partnering in a recently launched initiative, the Clause 10 Collective, focused on industry collaboration.

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Jacobs wins National Highways contracts

The Construction Index — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:51:00 +0100

Jacobs will deliver works on the M32 and M5 for National Highways, and has been awarded a role on the agency's Project Management Services Framework.

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Oxford Skip Hire chooses Kubota

The Construction Index — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:44:00 +0100

Oxford Skip Hire has chosen an 8.5t Kubota KX085-5 compact excavator, supplied by Boss Plant Sales, for waste sorting at its Abingdon waste transfer station.

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TfL adds Arcadis to framework

The Construction Index — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 08:47:00 +0100

Arcadis has been appointed to Transport for London's Professional Services Framework 3.

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Approval for Middlesborough homes

The Construction Index — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 08:39:00 +0100

Cameron Hall Homes has received planning permission for 135 additional new homes at its Stoney Wood development, near Middlesborough. The developer will partner with Banks Homes on the project.

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Final roof section on HS2 tunnel

The Construction Index — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 08:29:00 +0100

The final roof section has been placed on the HS2 Burton Green tunnel, marking its structural completion. The tunnel was designed by Mott MacDonald/SYSTRA and constructed by Balfour Beatty Vinci.

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