Buildings
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Short Construction is expanding across residential, commercial, and healthcare projects. Adrian Short, founder and MD at Short Construction, discusses client priorities, regional market conditions, team growth, and the stability contractors need next.
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Scotland’s Monklands hospital rebuild has been sent back for redesign. Ministers rejected the £2.1bn business case, leaving the healthcare project facing a major delivery reset.
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Universal’s Bedford resort has moved into contractor mobilisation in earnest. The scheme brings major building, civils, logistics, and transport works into one of the UK’s largest privately backed construction programmes.
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Tungsten has appointed Magrock for a Bristol industrial estate scheme. The five-unit Filton development targets BREEAM Excellent and EPC A.
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Robertson has started construction on the UK’s next national supercomputer. The Edinburgh facility will combine research infrastructure with heat recovery.
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GLA Land and Property is seeking a London markets partner. The £220m Albert Island scheme will relocate Billingsgate and Smithfield.
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CField has secured two major student housing contracts for Fusion. The schemes add 1,269 beds across London and Glasgow.
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Arcadis says UK construction recovery remains under renewed cost pressure. Inflation, energy volatility, and regulation continue to shape tender risk.
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Portakabin will deliver Workdry’s new modular headquarters scheme in Hampshire. The building will use 66 bespoke modules.
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Watkin Jones will build Oxford’s new George Street aparthotel scheme. The project brings hospitality-led regeneration into a constrained city centre.