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Volvo closes Rokbak business

The Construction Index — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 11:56:00 +0000

Volvo Construction Equipment is shutting its Motherwell-based articulated haul truck business.

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Skills card data suggests construction’s age profile is finally improving

The Construction Index — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 07:01:00 +0000

For years we have been warned of a demographic time bomb in the construction industry. Perhaps we need worry no longer.

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Plant sector rails against West Midlands Police

The Construction Index — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:09:00 +0000

The Construction Plant-hire Association is warning that West Midlands Police are jeopardising major construction projects with their approach to abnormal load movements.

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ILIOS selected for £200m fusion prototype

The Construction Index — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:38:00 +0000

ILIOS has been selected as construction partner for work on a prototype nuclear fusion plant at West Burton in Nottinghamshire.

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Barking Riverside revisions approved

The Construction Index — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 08:05:00 +0000

Barking Riverside Limited (BRL) has secured revised outline planning permission for up to 20,000 homes in east London.

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Caddick lands £25m Durham PBSA scheme

The Construction Index — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 07:48:00 +0000

Caddick Construction has been awarded a £25m design and build contract to built purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) in Durham.

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Teenager crushed in Burnley skip yard

The Construction Index — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 07:42:00 +0000

A Lancashire waste company has been fined nearly 30,000, including costs, after a teenage worker was crushed against a wall by a reversing telehandler.

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Tobin Plant becomes Hyundai compact dealer

The Construction Index — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 07:33:00 +0000

Hyundai Construction Equipment has appointed Tobin Plant its compact equipment dealer for Suffolk, Norfolk, Essex, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and Lincolnshire.

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Planning granted for phase 2 of Edgbaston student halls

The Construction Index — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 07:18:00 +0000

Mercia Real Estate has secured planning permission for a further 129 units at its new student living development, Haüs, at Edgbaston’s 12 Calthorpe Road.

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New role for former Sizewell C MD

The Construction Index — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 07:13:00 +0000

Julia Pyke, former joint managing director of Sizewell C, has been appointed executive chair of consultancy firm Agilia Infrastructure Partners.

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Innes England appoints director

The Construction Index — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:47:00 +0000

The Birmingham office of surveying firm Innes England has appointed a new director, Andy Johnson.

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Guinness Partnership signs maintenance agreements

The Construction Index — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:39:00 +0000

Housing association The Guinness Partnership has announced long term maintenance and investment agreements worth more than £1bn over the next 15 years.

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FP McCann fined following death of subcontractor

The Construction Index — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:55:00 +0000

FP McCann has been fined £110,000 for a health and safety offence that led to the death of a subcontractor.

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Blow-up tents speed work at the Royal Bolton

The Construction Index — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 08:29:00 +0000

Robertson Construction has installed an innovative inflatable roofing tent system as part of a £38m redevelopment of the Royal Bolton Hospital to make the works safer and faster.

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Slight growth for Marshalls but profit takes a hit

The Construction Index — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 08:15:00 +0000

Building products manufacturer Marshalls saw some slight revenue growth last year for the first times since its 2022 acquisition of Marley.

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HMRC raised £15bn in six months, construction in firing line

The Construction Index — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 08:00:00 +0000

The taxman is targeting construction firms over the employment status of CIS subbies and consultants.

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Westminster rewrites its construction rules

The Construction Index — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 07:35:00 +0000

Westminster City Council has published a revised and updated Code of Construction Practice planning document.

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RG starts Bristol towers

The Construction Index — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 07:33:00 +0000

RG Group is starting construction for Olympian Homes of what will be the tallest tower block in Bristol.

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Peri AI bridges design and formwork

The Construction Index — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 09:45:00 +0000

Peri UK has launched an AI tool to automate the fabrication of complex bespoken formwork, making it available to contractors across the UK.

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Pepsi’s new solar generation

The Construction Index — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 09:21:00 +0000

PepsiCo UK is investing £3.6m to install solar generation to provide all of the power needed for a distribution centre in Leicester. Ineco Energy will install panels over 30,000 square metres of roof space.

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Strabag to repair Aldenham Reservoir

The Construction Index — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:19:00 +0000

Strabag UK has been awarded a contract to deliver essential improvement works to a reservoir in Hertfordshire.

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Graham signs PCSA for Hereford bypass

The Construction Index — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:53:00 +0000

Herefordshire Council has signed John Graham Construction to undertake initial works on the £45m Hereford bypass scheme.

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Speller Metcalfe wins £28m leisure centre job

The Construction Index — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 08:18:00 +0000

North Warwickshire Borough Council has appointed Speller Metcalfe as the principal contractor for a new leisure centre.

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Tendring garden village masterplan submitted

The Construction Index — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 07:53:00 +0000

The UK’s largest housing association has submitted plans for a conurbation of nearly 8,000 new homes in Essex.

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Repair & maintenance upswing bolsters construction output stats

The Construction Index — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 07:41:00 +0000

New data from the Office for National Statistics today show construction output in Great Britain increasing but new work falling in January 2026.

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Modular footbridge promises improved temporary access

The Construction Index — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 07:17:00 +0000

Altrad RMD Kwikform has developed a modular footbridge for temporary works.

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VolkerFitzpatrick to build Didcot Science Bridge

The Construction Index — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 07:14:00 +0000

VolkerFitzpatrick joins John Graham Construction on Oxfordshire County Council’s £350m Didcot and surrounding areas infrastructure project.

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Gateway 2 approval for Stratford PBSA development

The Construction Index — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 07:12:00 +0000

McAleer & Rushe can now start construction on a high-rise student housing project in east London.

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Heidelberg renews Wirral maintenance contract

The Construction Index — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:30:00 +0000

Heidelberg Materials UK has re-secured a highway maintenance contract with Wirral Borough Council, in a three year deal worth around £9m.

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NHBC celebrates first skills hub graduations

The Construction Index — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:01:00 +0000

The National House Building Council has launched its first multi-skills training hub in Lichfield, Staffordshire, celebrating the graduation of its first apprentices.

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