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Former Hanson brick business to floatIbstock buoyant thanks to strong brick demandBrick shortage officially overBricks thrown back at purchasers’ instituteMichelmersh launches bimbricks The Brick Development Association has appointed Andrew Eagles as its new chief executive. He...

Scientists have crowned the termite as the natural world’s greatest engineer, thanks to its supreme mound building abilities, as detailed in a new study. Researchers have previously explored how termites build their mounds in a unique...

Steve Rawlings and fellow shareholder Slater Investments, who together own 21.56% of the issued share capital, have launched a bid to overthrow the current board. An extraordinary general meeting is set to vote on the matter on 19th April...

Aecom has won the contract to design and build a test track for the world’s first Hyperloop high-speed transport system. Hyperloop is a new form of high-speed transport proposed by SpaceX and Tesla Motors CEO Elon...

Legal & General Capital (LGC) has teamed up with Dutch pension fund manager PGGM to develop private rental property in UK cities. Their Build to Rent partnership will initially invest £600m into building 3,000 homes for...

Balfour Beatty has been fined £1m after a worker was killed by a crane while repairing a central reservation barrier. A team from Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering set out on 1st October 2012 to install temporary...

Contractor Osborne has started work on the construction of a new £24m library at the University of Roehampton in southwest London. The library will be four storeys tall, like most buildings on the university’s campus, and...