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Construction output is expected to grow by just 1.7 per cent in 2026 amid ongoing geopolitical uncertainty, a trade body has warned. The forecast is a major downgrade on previously predicted growth of 2.8 per cent, made last autumn, the Construction Products Association (CPA) said. In a new report, published…

Bovis has reached the summit in the last monthly league table of 2025, thanks to a £176.6m job to revamp a Gloucestershire barracks. It needed just one job at the Duke of Gloucester Barracks to take the gold medal in December, according to construction data provider Glenigan. The design-and-build contract…

Mace Group executive chairman Mark Reynolds has been made CBE in the New Year Honours list. Reynolds (pictured) was honoured for services to business and the construction industry. He was chief executive of Mace from January 2013 to December 2024 but retained his group chair role, which he has held…

Morgan Sindall strode to top spot in the November league tables, largely thanks to a £130m fit-out job in the City of London. The contractor’s fit-out arm Overbury scooped the £130m project on 2 Aldermanbury Square for international law firm Clifford Chance. Along with a £100m science scheme in Manchester…

US drugmaker Merck has scrapped plans to occupy a 10-storey life sciences building in King’s Cross that is currently being built by Mace.  Merck’s subsidiary MSD UK was set to be headquartered in the £150m Belgrove House building, which topped out earlier this summer after Mace started construction in January…

Strabag soared to the top spot in the August league tables thanks to a mammoth aqueduct job in the North West. The contractor scooped the £2.9bn job from United Utilities last month, which will see it upgrade six tunnel sections of the Haweswater Aqueduct. The aqueduct is a crucial artery…

Mace has scooped a major project to revamp London’s former City Hall. The planned revamp to the Greater London Authority’s (GLA) former headquarters will result in new office space, plus retail and restaurant space on the ground floor and new public realm space surrounding the site. Construction News understands Mace…

A worker died at a Mace data centre construction site in north-west London on Saturday (23 August). Emergency services were called to the site, on the North Circular Road in Neasden, at 9.23am, where Mace is working on a facility for Pure Data Centres. A London Ambulance Service spokesperson said:…

Mace has been appointed by Hertshten Properties as construction partner for a 30-storey mixed-use tower at 85 Gracechurch Street in the City of London. The scheme, designed by Woods Bagot, will replace a 1930s office block with around 21,830 square metres of office space, alongside retail and cultural uses. A…

Mace has been appointed as construction manager on the £1.1bn life-science-led redevelopment of the British Library’s St Pancras site in central London. The developer for the scheme is SMBL, a special purpose vehicle wholly owned by Mitsui Fudosan UK and established in partnership with the British Library. Mace joins the…