Police have uncovered nearly £2m of stolen construction equipment after they tracked tools stolen from Balfour Beatty subcontractors building access roads to the Lower Thames Crossing. The Metropolitan Police announced yesterday (28 January) that officers had raided a property in Ilford and discovered the huge stash – the equivalent of…
Monthly construction insolvencies fell below the 300 mark in November 2025 – down on the previous month and on a year-by-year basis. Office for National Statistics (ONS) data, released today (20th January), shows that 297 firms in the construction sector went under during the penultimate month of last year. The…
A regulatory shake-up announced today is set to reshape the water industry’s capital delivery, offering contractors greater visibility over future workloads and smoothing the transition between investment cycles. The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs today (20 January) released its water white paper, which it described as “once-in-a-generation reforms”…
The Building Safety Regulator will turn its focus to driving down the number of live cases relating to remediating unsafe buildings in 2026, the body’s chief executive has told Construction News. Despite the strides made on clearing new-build applications, the volume of live cladding remediation cases has remained stubbornly at…
Charlie Pugsley on clearing backlogs, improving transparency – and why his emergency service background matters
The Scottish Government has published a draft 10-year infrastructure strategy and pipeline, outlining its intention to harness new models to leverage private finance. A consultation document covering infrastructure planning, investment and delivery between 2027 and 2037 was announced alongside yesterday’s Scottish Budget for 2026/27. The strategy, aimed at three key…
Balfour Beatty is ripping out the vintage equipment in seven Piccadilly line substations and replacing it with 21st century tech in preparation for a new fleet of trains
The government is considering introducing mandatory registration and licensing for additional roles across the construction sector as part of its overhaul of professional oversight in the built environment. Wednesday’s (17 December) prospectus for the new single construction regulator announced that ministers are proposing to go further than the recommendations of…
The government closed its consultation on payment times and retentions reform in October, as the latest attempt to solve a problem that has been the subject of debate in the construction sector for many years. But any attempt to overhaul it is not risk-free. Recent history is littered with examples…
M Group's chief finance officer explains how a fresh £500m acquisition spree could take the firm above £4bn in turnover.
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