Transport for London (TfL) is about to kickstart its search for a builder to redevelop Elephant & Castle Station in south London. The transport body has started the next stage of the station upgrade by appointing Arcadis and architect Hawkins\Brown to undertake a design study of stage two of the…
Contractor Kier has been ordered to undertake safety inspections of one of Argent’s schemes in King’s Cross, London, after part of the building’s cladding fell off. The developer declined to say how long the inspections will take or whether remediation work is needed on the rest of the structure. However,…
The cost of getting private rental housing in England up to tougher EPC guidelines by 2025 is set to be around £19bn, new research by Hamptons on behalf of Bloomberg has revealed. The study, which analysed data from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, found that almost half…
The Department for Transport (DfT) was rebuffed by over 100 prospective candidates for the role of HS2 chair, Construction News can reveal. Last week the government promoted HS2 deputy chairman Jon Thompson to the role, which had been vacant for two years after former chair Allan Cook left HS2 in…
A £420m regeneration scheme backed by Coventry City Council is set to complete up to nine years later than initially planned. The council is amending the terms of its contract with Shearer Property Regen, which it appointed as its development partner for the Coventry City South (CCS) project in 2019.…
Rising inflation added a whopping £23bn to the cost of the sector’s output compared with pre-pandemic price levels, according to analysis of data published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). ONS data covering the last 12 months of 2022 and analysed by construction data company Barbour ABI found that…
London-based housing association London & Quadrant (L&Q) has launched a search for consultants for a £200m structural and civil engineering services framework. The housing association, which owns and manages homes for 250,000 people across 95,000 properties in London and the South East, has pulled together the four-year framework covering civil…
The government has asked the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) to identify how the planning system could be changed to speed up the delivery of major infrastructure projects. The NIC will review the current approach to National Policy Statements – part of the Planning Act – to identify how the system…
Hampshire-based Sovereign Housing Association has launched a search for contractors to build up to £800m-worth of new housing across 16 separate multi-supplier framework agreements. The association owns and manages 60,000 homes across Berkshire, Hampshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Dorset, Devon, Wiltshire, the West of England and the Isle of Wight. The total…
Network Rail and Transport for London (TfL) have announced plans to join forces to develop up to 20,000 new homes over the coming decade. The two transport bodies are set to coordinate use of their separate estates – which often overlap due to the nature of the railways – to…