Day: January 26, 2023

CGI of Festival Square, as proposed for Birmingham city centreThe city centre Smithfield 17ha site, which played a central role in the 2022 Commonwealth Games, is set to become a new home for Birmingham’s Bull Ring markets. The plans include a new market square, housing,...

Main contractor GCC has hired the cranes under a leasing agreement with Liebherr’s French subsidiaryThe Arboretum project, on the banks of the River Seine at Nanterre, near Paris, will provide 125,000 square metres of office and service space and is almost entirely timber-framed. The client...

The essential components comprise the cast-steel crown-gear and the forged pinionThere are many familiar everyday products that got it right first time and have remained essentially unchanged for generations: the teapot, for example, or the bicycle. But as American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson is supposed...

The plant can be installed so just the payment terminal and conveyor head are accessible from outside the yardAlthough we’re unlikely to see the ubiquitous Belle concrete mixer disappear from small building sites any time soon, there’s a new alternative about to land in the...

Two major rail infrastructure projects have adopted project management systems that use artificial intelligence to streamline planning and reduce risk.Read Full Article: The Construction Index Source link

Artist's impression of the planned new leisure centre to be built by Morgan Sindall in Houghton RegisConstruction is expected to start in February 2023, with the new facility opening in autumn 2024. The project is underpinned by a £20m government Levelling Up Fund grant from...

In a trading update today, TClarke said that it expects to file turnover for 2022 (year to 31st December) of £425m (2021: £327m) and profit before tax of £10.3m (2021: £7.8m). The order book stands at £555m at year-end (2021: £534m). The growth strategy is...

The office block planned for Plot 9a on First StreetPension Insurance Corporation (PIC) has invested £105m to forward fund the 130,900 sq ft office block. Plot 9a on the First Street estate is being brought forward by lead developer Ask and its joint venture partner,...

Artist's impressionAvant Homes is set to start building a further 173 homes in Waverley, as a £49m second phase of development on the wider regeneration scheme. The 12.5-acre site, just off Sheffield Parkway next to Avant Homes’ first phase of homes at its Sorby Park...

An aerial view showing the bridge and route of the old railway to its northeast (© The HRE Group)King’s Lynn & West Norfolk Borough Council has told National Highways to apply for retrospective planning permission for a controversial bridge infilling scheme in the borough. National...

The latest Builders Merchant Building Index (BMBI) report reveals that the value of builders’ merchants’ sales was up by 1.4% in November 2022 compared to the same month in 2021, but only because inflation had pushed up priced by 17.3% over the previous 12 months....

The change of name follows a strategic review that concluded Dy.Co’s products were core to to Dywidag (formerly Dyckerhoff & Widmann AG) and should be branded as such. Dywidag Concrete Technologies – Dy.Co, as was – sells fixings, anchors, sealants, admixtures and other products useful...

CGI of Ilke houses at Glenvale ParkThe homes –due for completion in 2024 – are being manufactured offsite at Ilke Homes’ factory in North Yorkshire. Glenvale Park is a development of 3,000 homes on the northern edge of Wellingborough by Man GPM, the private markets...

Paul Thornton, Guy Evans and Andrew Sanderson Andrew Sanderson has been appointed build director for Crest Nicholson Yorkshire and Paul Thornton has joined as head of land & planning. Previously regional director, Guy Evans is now managing director of Crest Nicholson Yorkshire. Andrew Sanderson re-joins...