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Major industry clients including the Department for Transport, Network Rail and Heathrow Airport will set out their pipelines and requirements at next week’s Construction News Summit.

Lipton Rogers co-founder sets out his vision for London, what contractors need to do differently and why the Walkie Talkie is ‘nuts’.

German hotel chain Motel One has outlined plans to build more than 1,400 hotel rooms in the UK over the next two years.

From the regeneration of the iconic Battersea Power Station to the provision of tens of thousands of new homes, the US Embassy and the Northern Line extension, there is work for years to come in the Vauxhall and Nine Elms area of London. Construction News maps out the opportunities and…

Relationships can be as important as price for office developers

Earlier this year, Nick Herbert, the former shadow environment secretary for the Conservative Party and now policing minister, backed the UK-wide introduction of a grid enabling water companies to trade treated water and avoid capital intensive projects where necessary.

The increasingly unpredictable UK weather conditions with torrential rain one month, drought the next leaves water companies with a constant challenge to safeguard domestic supplies, according to United Utilities’ Jon Higham.

Fossil fuels can play a role in the UK’s future energy production provided an effective carbon capture and storage system can be developed, says the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Chris Huhne

The chief executive of Drax, Dorothy Thompson, says the Government’s latest biomass subsidy rules make it very hard for her to make the case to investors to fund the company’s £2 billion biomass plans.

The company behind plans for a £2 billion coal-fired power plant in Scotland has received support from the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) despite a rising tide of opposition from groups worried about pollution, wildlife and tourism.