Buildings
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One Pilgrim Place has reached structural shell completion in Newcastle. The DWP office remains scheduled for April 2027 delivery within the wider Pilgrim Street regeneration programme.
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Enfield councillors have backed 306 affordable homes beside North Middlesex. The brownfield development combines social rent, intermediate tenure, key-worker accommodation, community facilities, and new public space.
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Financial close advances Manchester’s £530m Fallowfield accommodation redevelopment towards construction. The 3,300-room programme combines Passivhaus certification, modern methods of construction, and a 50-year delivery and operating partnership.
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Dhekelia received the first 46 homes under the APOLLO programme. The £48m Cyprus contract combines seismic resilience, comfort cooling, solar power, heat pumps, and electric vehicle charging.
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Taylor Wimpey completed fewer homes as first-half profitability weakened further. The housebuilder expects 10,600 to 10,800 UK completions in 2026 while build cost inflation runs at 3% to 4%.
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Twenty two teams will develop sites for renewed energetics capacity. The feasibility programme is intended to lead into design and construction of at least six factories.
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Greenheys adds specialist laboratory capacity to Manchester’s expanding science district. The fully electric building will house UK Biobank’s headquarters, laboratories, offices, and extensive biological sample collection.
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Watkin Jones has secured six contracts across retrofit and hospitality. Five awards cover student accommodation remediation and improvement, while a sixth advances an Oxford city centre aparthotel.
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Eleven hospital partnerships move England’s standardised construction programme into delivery. The agreements pair NHS trusts with major contractors through a repeatable model intended to improve design consistency, procurement certainty, and productivity across the New Hospital Programme.
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Etex has appointed Si Gibson to lead construction product testing. The new technical director will oversee Siniat and Promat as evidence, competency, interfaces, and design responsibility face closer scrutiny.