A construction company has been fined after a man drowned when he fell into an exposed excavation at night on a site described as a ‘death trap’ in Hertfordshire. Mykhalio…

Texas-based data centre developer Corscale has signed McLaren Construction and Phoenix ME onto a pre-construction services agreement for a 140MW data centre at Court Lane in Iver, Buckinghamshire. The 14-acre…

Starting from scratch, TrueNorth Capital is targeting market leadership and an IPO next year. The unsafe cladding crisis revealed by the Grenfell catastrophe will create a multi-billion-pound remediation wave that…

Construction will require more than a million additional workers by 2035 if it is to meet government housing and infrastructure ambitions, according to Skills England’s first Annual Skills Report and…

Nicola Hodkinson, owner of Seddon and recently appointed chair of mental health organisation Mates in Mind, discusses why improving wellbeing in construction starts with understanding the day-to-day reality of working…

Kier has appointed Niki Steel as chief human resources officer and a member of its executive committee, as the contractor continues to strengthen its senior leadership team following a series…

The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) has called for a national campaign promoting construction careers after a major review warned that the number of young people not in education, employment…

This month, CM starts a new series of interviews profiling the construction project leaders delivering the industry’s most challenging jobs. First up, Bart Ciurla from Legendre talks about his work…

This month’s Contract Clinic question comes from a developer with a high-rise residential scheme held up in the Building Safety Regulator approvals system. Syed Muzaffar explains how contract law may…

Three men have been sentenced for helping more than 500 people cheat a construction health and safety exam following a joint investigation by the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) and…