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An industry association has warned of “increasing fragility” in the delivery of major infrastructure programmes, after the UK civil engineering sector recorded its first fall in workloads since the Covid pandemic. Overall workloads declined by 1 per cent on balance in the third quarter (Q3) of 2025 compared to the…

Remediation of brownfield land needs boosting to vamp up near-stagnant materials sales, a leading trade body has said. Sales of building materials inched up 0.8 per cent in the year to September 2025, according to the latest Builders Merchant Building Index (BMBI), compiled by the Builders Merchants Federation (BMF). The…

Tender price forecasts for the construction sector have barely shifted following the chancellor’s Autumn Statement, according to new analysis from consultancy Rider Levett Bucknall (RLB). The firm’s latest quarterly Construction Market Intelligence report showed only marginal changes to inflation projections: the 2025 forecast tender price uplift was revised to 3.2…

Project starts in construction have shown signs of recovery after increasing by 3 per cent in the three months to November, according to the latest data from Glenigan. However, the data intelligence provider also found that residential construction remain a drag on the sector. And the weak performance in terms…

Northern Ireland’s construction sector has been forecast to return to growth in 2026 following a sharp contraction this year, according to analysis from data intelligence firm Construction Information Services (CIS). In its latest market forecast, CIS said project starts are expected to decline by 17 per cent in 2025 amid…

There were 50,000 non-fatal workplace injuries in construction in the three years to March 2025 – equivalent to one in 40 workers – according to new figures from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). The HSE data, compiled from the Office for National Statistics’ Labour Force Survey, showed construction had…

45.5 Construction’s activity rating for August in the latest monthly Purchasing Managers’ Index from S&P Global – any reading below 50 indicates a contraction. Huda As’ad, Accenture’s infrastructure and capital projects lead in the UK and Ireland, said: “The construction sector has been hit by persistent cost pressures and ongoing…

Construction output has made a marginal rise of 0.2 per cent in September aided by an increase in new work. In the latest data published by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) on Thursday (13 November), September’s rise on August’s figure was driven by a 0.7 per cent rise in…

Sector leaders have warned that a 20 per cent drop in the number of self-employed contractors over the past six years will have an impact on the industry’s flexibility. It comes as data published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on Tuesday (11 November) showed there were 756,000 self-employed…

Construction activity in the UK has continued to weaken, according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) market survey, with forward-looking indicators also pointing to a more subdued outlook. The headline workloads indicator fell to a net balance of -8 per cent in the third quarter of 2025,…