Construction

07 Jan 2025 By Contributor Digital Edition: UK construction activity November 2024: Housing   Project starts and detailed planning approvals fell compared with the previous quarter and last year. More positively, there was an increase in main contract awards on the preceding three months and a year ago. Housing overview Totalling £9.495bn, residential work starting on-site

07 Jan 2025 By Contributor Digital Edition: UK construction activity November 2024: Industrial   Main contract awards declined compared to both the previous quarter and the previous year. More positively, project starts increased compared to the preceding three months and 2023 levels, bolstering the development pipeline. Industrial overview During the three months to November, industrial project-starts

Project starts and detailed planning approvals decreased compared to both the previous quarter and the previous year. More positively, main contract awards grew on a year ago. Offices overview Office work starting on site totalled £1.23bn during the three months to November, a 39 per cent decline compared with the preceding quarter, to stand 35

07 Jan 2025 By Contributor Digital Edition: UK construction activity November 2024: Retail    Project starts and main contract awards declined compared to the previous quarter and last year. More positively, detailed planning approvals grew compared with the preceding three months. Retail overview Totalling £408m, retail work starting on site during the three months to November

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An electric vehicle plant that BYD plans to build in Turkey will start operations as scheduled by the end of 2026, said Kaan Masatci, a project manager at Turkey’s presidential investment office, denying rumors that BYD is halting its major investment in the country. The manufacturing project has received all the necessary permissions and is

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves used her first budget to change inheritance tax rules In an open letter, led by Family Business UK, the trade associations warn that changes to business property relief (BPR) and agricultural property relief (APR) will starve their members and the economy of investment, lead to forced, premature business sales

HS2 plans to renegotiate its contracts with the joint ventures delivering the London-Birmingham rail scheme as part of a “fundamental reset” of the delivery programme. HS2 chief executive Mark Wild, who started in his role earlier this month, told a meeting of parliament’s Public Accounts Committee yesterday there would be no re-procurement of already agreed