Project Reports

Build on time or not at all

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In North Yorkshire contractor William Birch has less than a year to grow a new £3 million learning centre and library for the Royal Horticulture Society. Paul Thompson reports.

Nailing the problem

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Engineers in Nottinghamshire are working directly alongside thundering traffic to complete a motorway widening project. Paul Thompson reports.

An education in building

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Lessons in environmental construction, from an extensive college development in south London

Apprentices doing it for themselves

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Construction News first reported on restoration work for Derby’s iconic Roundhouse last July. This week we look at how local construction students have benefited from the chance to take on one of the UK’s best heritage-led development projects

First, remove the walls…

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Contractors have raised the roof on the redevelopment of an historic Victorian building at Nottingham Trent University

Massive colliery clean-up

Castlemore administrators PricewaterhouseCoopers are looking to offload a 1,300 acre site near Talywain in South Wales, dubbed “The British”.

A former industrial site in central Scotland is proving to be one of the UK’s most challenging regeneration projects.