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Solar panels power Oxfordshire business park

1-Jul-2011
A business park in Oxfordshire has begun generating solar energy after its solar panels, the biggest array in the country, were connected into the National Grid.
Jellyfish shut down Scottish nuclear power station

30-Jun-2011
Both reactors at a nuclear power station have been shut down after “high volumes” of jellyfish were found on seawater filter screens.
Radiation monitored at US fire site

30-Jun-2011
The US government sent a plane equipped with radiation monitors over the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory as a 177km2 wildfire burned at its doorstep, putting thousands of scientific experiments on hold for days.
Earthquake strikes central Japan

30-Jun-2011
A magnitude-5.4 earthquake has rattled central Japan and at least seven people are hurt.
UN peacekeepers blamed for cholera

30-Jun-2011
Scientists are presenting the strongest evidence yet that UN peacekeepers imported the cholera strain that has killed more than 5,500 people in Haiti.
£11bn meter budget 'will be blown'

30-Jun-2011
The £11.3bn budget for the national roll-out of smart meters could be blown, with extra costs passed on to consumers, the Government has warned.
1970s' homes 'more energy efficient'

30-Jun-2011
Houses built 30 years ago in an innovative scheme to cut energy use and costs are more efficient than homes built to the latest standards, a report has said.
Wildfire threat to US nuclear lab worsens

29-Jun-2011
A wildfire burning near the desert birthplace of the atomic bomb advanced on the Los Alamos laboratory and thousands of outdoor drums of plutonium-contaminated waste as authorities stepped up efforts to protect the site from flames and monitor the air for radiation.
Welsh anaerobic plant wins approval

29-Jun-2011
Environmental officials say they have set the highest possible standards for a proposed mini-power plant fuelled by animal and food waste in Anglesey.
Tepco sorry for Fukushima meltdown

28-Jun-2011
Executives at the Japanese utility behind a nuclear power plant sent into meltdown by the March quake apologised today to investors.
Able UK Humber plans supported

28-Jun-2011
Able UK has been given the go-ahead to build a £400M marine energy park in Humberside.
£20M funding to develop wave power

28-Jun-2011
The UK Government is to pump £20M into developing the potential of wave power.
Concern over renewable energy firms

27-Jun-2011
Some renewable energy firms are failing to give consumers the right advice, it has been claimed.
Green firms win investment cash

27-Jun-2011
Green energy firms E.quinox and VPhase have won a share of £125M investment as part of GE’s “ecomagination challenge”.
Wildfire threat shuts nuclear lab

27-Jun-2011
The US government’s Los Alamos National Laboratory declared an emergency today after a fast-moving wildfire forced officials to close the nuclear site in New Mexico.
Residents missing as storm floods Manila

27-Jun-2011
Fifteen people are missing after a tropical storm in the northern Philippines flooded a wide swathe of metropolitan Manila, officials said.
Pacific quake sparks tsunami alert

24-Jun-2011
A major earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.2 hit the Pacific Ocean off Alaska’s remote Aleutian Islands today, prompting a tsunami alert and sending people fleeing to high ground.
Council rejects RES wind farm plans

23-Jun-2011
RES UK and Ireland has had a wind farm planning application rejected.
Tsunami scare as quake rocks Japan

23-Jun-2011
A magnitude 6.7 earthquake that rattled north east Japan triggered a tsunami warning.
Cash offer to leave quake-hit homes

23-Jun-2011
New Zealand’s government has offered to pay thousands of homeowners to leave areas of the country’s second-largest city hardest hit by recent earthquakes.
Wave energy firm global investment

22-Jun-2011
A wave energy company is to more than double its workforce following a multi-million pound investment by a global energy firm.
Chelsea Barracks plan approved

21-Jun-2011
A multi-million pound redevelopment of Chelsea Barracks has been given the green light two years after the Prince of Wales intervened over plans for the site.
JCB announces £20M investment

21-Jun-2011
JCB has said it will invest £20M in its UK factories this year to keep pace with a boom in demand from the so-called emerging markets.
'All islands' energy plan agreed

21-Jun-2011
Politicians from all corners of the British Isles have agreed to press ahead with energy cooperation in the hope of maximising the benefit from the islands’ rich potential for wind and wave power.
Commons to review £32bn HS2 plans

21-Jun-2011
A Commons Select Committee inquiring into the government’s High Speed 2 rail project has commissioned an independent review into the £32bn scheme rather than just rely on written and verbal evidence, it has been announced.
University reveals eco improvements

20-Jun-2011
Middlesex University has revealed a range of energy-saving measures after a poor showing in this year’s People and Planet’s Green League.
IAEA convenes nuclear safety talks

20-Jun-2011
Government ministers and other high-level delegates are convening for a conference on nuclear safety in the wake of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Clugston secures £2M canal contract

17-Jun-2011
Clugston Construction has secured a £2M contract to upgrade a section of the Huddersfield Narrow Canal in what managing director Steve Radcliffe described as an “exciting development”.
GMI Construction to build stadium

17-Jun-2011
The chairman of Rotherham United has insisted that the funding is in place for GMI Construction to finish building the club’s new £17.3M stadium.
Siemens announced as Thameslink stock preferred bidder

17-Jun-2011
Siemens with Cross London Trains has been announced as preferred bidder to provide mega rail project Thameslink’s rolling stock, beating off competition from Bombardier Transportation/Velocity.
Borders rail link options 'being looked at'

17-Jun-2011
The Scottish Government has said it is considering its options over a project to create a rail link to the Borders after a consortium said it intended to withdraw from bidding for the contract to build it.
Massive carbon dioxide pipeline planned

17-Jun-2011
Plans have been put forward to create a massive pipeline to carry 2M.t of carbon dioxide across the country as part of a carbon capture and storage scheme.
Thousands flee Chinese flooding

17-Jun-2011
China’s flood control agency says a river in eastern China is at its highest level in more than 50 years as continuing rains cause landslides and flooding.
Venezuela to ration electricity

16-Jun-2011
Venezuela will soon begin rationing electricity in several regions because of recurring power outages, the country’s energy minister said.
UK must better anticipate disasters

16-Jun-2011
Britain must be better prepared for dealing with humanitarian disasters in the third world, international development secretary Andrew Mitchell has said.
Bad infrastructure risks economy, says ICE Scotland

16-Jun-2011
The economy is at risk because Scotland’s infrastructure is in need of repair and modernisation, engineers have said.
NSG UK bought by French firm Altrad

16-Jun-2011
NSG UK has been bought by French building products company Altrad in a deal that will keep managing director Mike Carr in charge of the Deeside-based group.
Liverpool undecided on stadium plan

16-Jun-2011
Liverpool FC has still yet to decide whether to build a new stadium or redevelop its current ground, according to the Liverpool Echo.
Scottish renewables plan 'on track'

15-Jun-2011
First minister Alex Salmond has said that Scotland is on-track to meet its decade-long renewable energy target.
ArcelorMittal can buy 5,000 Olympic tickets

15-Jun-2011
The company behind the giant spiralling tower being built in the Olympic Park can buy up to 5,000 tickets as one of the sponsors of the London 2012 Games.
M74 extension 'done under budget'

15-Jun-2011
The new M74 motorway extension has been completed under budget by millions of pounds, according to infrastructure secretary Alex Neil.
Spencer reveals green energy plans

15-Jun-2011
Spencer has outlined plans for a £150M state-of-the-art renewable energy centre in Hull.
Costain wins £150M A-road contract

14-Jun-2011
Welsh transport minister Carl Sargeant has confirmed that Costain has been awarded the £150M contract to upgrade a major Welsh A-road.
Johnson opens bidding for £50M pot for outer London projects

14-Jun-2011
Projects that aim to revamp high streets in outer London could take advantage of a £50M fund set up by mayor Boris Johnson.
One killed in Christchurch aftershocks

14-Jun-2011
Power has been mostly restored to New Zealand’s quake-rattled city of Christchurch, following strong aftershocks that brought down new buildings and caused the death of one nursing home resident.
Christchurch hit by earthquakes

13-Jun-2011
A series of strong earthquakes shook the quake-weary New Zealand city of Christchurch today, briefly trapping two people inside a church.
Edinburgh tram firm to cut jobs

13-Jun-2011
The company responsible for the capital’s troubled tram project has announced that some of its workers could lose their jobs.
Early capital borrowing plans announced

10-Jun-2011
The Scottish Government will be given early access to capital borrowing powers to help fund projects such as the new Forth crossing, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has announced.
Solar power incentives slashed

10-Jun-2011
Incentives for new larger scale solar power projects are being slashed, the Government confirmed today.
Siemens creates engineering jobs

9-Jun-2011
Technology giant Siemens has confirmed it is to create 340 jobs in renewable energy, with most to be based at a new engineering centre.
Network Rail profits rise by £29M

9-Jun-2011
Network Rail has announced increased profits and revealed it remains on target to deliver “challenging” efficiency savings.
Two die in Mexico bridge collapse

8-Jun-2011
Two people have been killed and a third seriously injured after a pedestrian bridge collapsed in a suburb of Mexico City.
Residents ordered out as US fire rages

8-Jun-2011
About 2,000 residents of the eastern Arizona town of Eagar were ordered to evacuate their homes as flames from a raging forest fire appeared on ridges surrounding the town and neighbouring Springerville.
Flooding leaves 23 dead in Haiti

8-Jun-2011
Heavy rain has hammered southern Haiti for a seventh straight day, triggering floods and mudslides and causing houses and shanties in the capital to collapse.
New A5 plan 'backed by experts'

8-Jun-2011
Government engineers have said the proposed A5 dual carriageway in Northern Ireland is better value, will be safer and will affect fewer landowners than alternative proposals, according to the minister responsible for roads.
Chinese floods 'kill 14 people'

7-Jun-2011
Floods in south-western China have killed 14 people, left 35 others missing and washed away roads, bridges and thousands of homes.
Swindon plant proposals submitted

7-Jun-2011
A new renewable energy power plant capable of providing electricity to 125 homes could potentially be built near Cricklade, Swindon.
Clyde wind farm starts production

7-Jun-2011
The Clyde onshore wind farm has begun producing electricity for the national grid.
Aftershock rocks Christchurch

6-Jun-2011
An aftershock has rattled buildings in the earthquake-ravaged city of Christchurch, New Zealand. No serious damage or injuries have been reported.
Radioactive water storage tanks heading for Japan

6-Jun-2011
Tanks for storing radioactive water are on their way to the crippled nuclear power plant in north eastern Japan where reactor cores melted after the massive 11 March earthquake and tsunami.
Towns evacuated after Chile eruption

6-Jun-2011
The Puyehue volcano in southern Chile erupted, sending a huge plume of smoke and ash into the sky and prompting officials to evacuate about 600 people living nearby. There were no reports of injuries.
Cibitas granted planning extension

6-Jun-2011
Developer Cibitas has been granted an extension to carry out a £1bn waterfront regeneration scheme in east Manchester.
Four killed in oil refinery blast

3-Jun-2011
An oil refinery blast in which four people were killed appears to have been a “tragic industrial accident”, police said.
Newcastle pioneers geothermal energy

3-Jun-2011
Scientists have started the next stage of a major project to transform the former Newcastle Brown Ale brewery into a pioneering centre of hot water power.
Green deal quality control plans

2-Jun-2011
The Government has unveiled plans to help ensure homeowners taking advantage of the “green deal” are not ripped off.
Hota invests £1M in facilities

2-Jun-2011
A training facility in Hull is investing more than £1M in its facilities to help boost the region’s growing reputation in the offshore wind industry.
Missouri flood threat warning issued

2-Jun-2011
Residents in three US cities have been urged to evacuate their homes amid fears of a prolonged period of flooding along the Missouri River.
Gas project halted after earthquake

1-Jun-2011
A company is working with the British Geological Survey to see if there is a link between a “shale” gas drilling project and a small earthquake in Lancashire.
Japan criticised over nuclear tsunami preparations

1-Jun-2011
An International Atomic Energy Agency team said Japan’s nuclear authorities underestimated the possibility of a massive tsunami hitting the Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant but praised the overall response.
Report doubts Haitian earthquake death toll

31-May-2011
Far fewer people died or were left homeless by last year’s devastating earthquake than claimed by Haitian leaders, a report commissioned by the US government has concluded - challenging a central premise behind a multibillion-dollar aid and reconstruction effort.
Deadly storms trigger landslides in Sri Lanka

31-May-2011
Floods, mudslides and lightning have killed eight people throughout Sri Lanka.
Germany announces shutdown of nuclear facilities by 2022

31-May-2011
Germany’s coalition government has agreed to shut down all the country’s nuclear power plants by 2022, the environment minister said, making it the first major industrialised power to go nuclear-free since the Japanese disaster.
Cala loses planning court appeal

31-May-2011
Decision makers can take the Government’s intention to revoke Regional Strategies into consideration when examining planning applications and appeals, the Court of Appeal has said.
Eurotunnel plans electricity link

27-May-2011
Eurotunnel has unveiled plans to run an electricity link through the Channel Tunnel as part of efforts to bolster UK power supplies.
Construction bonuses show decrease

27-May-2011
Payments appear to have bounced back following the recession - except in construction, according to a report.
SSE acquires consented wind farm

27-May-2011
A wind farm in North Lincolnshire has been acquired from Renewable Energy Systems (RES) by Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE).
Severn Trent misses leakage target

27-May-2011
Severn Trent has said it failed to meet its annual leakage target after the coldest December in 100 years caused a surge in the number of broken pipes.
Accurate wind data 'cuts pollution'

27-May-2011
A new, more accurate system of forecasting wind power and the energy from wind farms will help cut carbon pollution and save money, the National Grid has said.
United Utilities beats weather to hit target

26-May-2011
United Utilities has praised the “extraordinary efforts” of staff who battled extreme weather to ensure the company met its annual leakage target.
More deadly storms hit Midwest

25-May-2011
A line of violent thunderstorms roared across middle America, killing six people in two states, with several tornadoes touching down in Oklahoma and high winds pounding rural Kansas.
Thousands without power after storms

25-May-2011
Thousands of people were still without electricity last night after storms lashed Scotland.
Race on to find tornado survivors

24-May-2011
Rescue crews dug through piles of splintered houses and crushed cars in a search for victims of a half-mile-wide tornado that killed at least 116 people as it blasted a Missouri town off the map and tore through its hospital.
Helius in eco-energy plant plan

24-May-2011
Helius Energy has teamed up with Rabo Project Equity and the Combination of Rothes Distillers for a joint venture that will see the groups run a combined heat and power plant using distillery by-products.
Clegg confirms plans for green bank

24-May-2011
Offshore wind farms will be among the first projects to get help from a new green investment bank to be launched next year, the deputy prime minister has said.
China to overhaul Three Gorges finances

23-May-2011
The operator of China’s giant Three Gorges Dam plans to overhaul its finances after the government made a surprising admission last week that the world’s largest hydroelectric project has urgent environmental, geologic and economic problems.
Millions at risk of earthquakes

23-May-2011
Millions of people in Europe, the Middle East and Asia are at risk from deadly tremors which can strike out of the blue in unmapped earthquake zones, scientists have warned.
Landslides kill Malaysian orphans

23-May-2011
Two landslides that hit a Malaysian orphanage killed 15 boys and one adult but nine people survived, police said as a 15-hour rescue mission ended.
Mississippi crest reaches 4.3m

20-May-2011
The Mississippi River crested at more than 4.3m above flood stage in Vicksburg on Thursday, a slightly lower than expected level that eased worries about water potentially spilling over a nearby levee and inundating thousands more acres of farmland.
Renewable energy sector to grow

20-May-2011
More solar power and wind power installations are likely to be built over the coming years as investment levels in the renewable energy sector increases over the next decade, a United Nations report has said.
Energy firm reveals massive growth

20-May-2011
Rototec Geothermal Energy Systems has announced 68% growth in the first quarter of 2011 compared with the previous year.
Kier signs £54M Kent academy deal

20-May-2011
Kier Group has signed a deal to build a £54M academy on the Isle of Sheppey.
Cargo chaos on swollen Mississippi

19-May-2011
Boats carrying cargo are being allowed to move along the Mississippi River after traffic was halted for a day over the risk that the swollen waterway would break its banks and flood huge areas of farmland in the lower delta.
Steelworks looks to India venture

18-May-2011
Severfield-Rowen is looking to strengthen operations in India after raising concerns that recovery in the UK markets is “distant”.
Terminal build to see 35,000 jobs

18-May-2011
Building a new Terminal 2 at Heathrow is creating 35,000 jobs over the life of the project, the airport’s operator BAA has said.
Planning pilot trial areas announced

18-May-2011
Planning minister Greg Clark has announced the first eight businesses which will work directly with their local communities in a trial for proposed new neighbourhood planning powers.
Three CCS demo sites proposed in Scotland

18-May-2011
Scottish Enterprise has proposed the construction of three Scottish carbon capture and storage (CCS) demonstration projects at Longannet, Peterhead and Hunterston.
Evacuees make for Katrina escape site

17-May-2011
A farming community built for evacuees of Hurricane Katrina has become a haven for families driven from their homes by river flooding that has hit states from Arkansas to Louisiana.
Revised plans for Fukushima plant

17-May-2011
The Japanese government is to unveil revised plans on how it aims to make its stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant stable.
West Brom plans stadium expansion

17-May-2011
West Bromwich Albion and owner Jeremy Peace are planning to install an additional 3,500 seats to the Hawthorns stadium over the next three seasons.
Heat and power system to cut bills

17-May-2011
A combined heat and power project involving ENER-G, GSH Group and Telereal Trillium is expected to cut energy use by 20% at a Government building in Leeds.
RTPI briefing on Localism Bill

17-May-2011
The Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) has held a briefing with MPs on areas of the Localism Bill that it feels can be improved ahead of the report stage in Parliament.
Thousands walk through new tunnel

16-May-2011
Almost 7,000 people have walked through a multimillion pound tunnel, regarded as a feat of engineering, before it opens to motorists this summer.
Floodgates opened in bid to save New Orleans

16-May-2011
Deputies were warning people on Sunday to evacuate their homes as Mississippi River water gushing from a floodgate for the first time in four decades crept ever closer to communities in Louisiana Cajun country, slowly filling a river basin like a giant bathtub.
Dover port upgrade announced

16-May-2011
A multimillion-pound investment plan to revamp one of Britain’s key gateways to Europe has been announced.
Be clear on nuclear subsidies, MPs

16-May-2011
The Government should be “upfront” about the subsidies it is planning to give new nuclear power, MPs have warned.
Bank issues warning over growth

13-May-2011
The Bank of England has prepared the country for weaker growth amid rocketing energy bills and tough Government cuts that are squeezing household spending.
Private sector takes a step closer to funding 2012 Stadium wrap

13-May-2011
Talks are under way to restore plans for a 900m fabric wrap around the Olympic Stadium.
2012 building work 83% complete

13-May-2011
Building work at the Olympic Park is now 83 per cent complete, Olympics minister Hugh Robertson has said.
Thousands flee Spanish quake city

13-May-2011
Thousands have fled the small agricultural city of Lorca, fearing destruction by major aftershocks after the country’s deadliest earthquakes in 55 years killed nine people and caused extensive damage.
Cotswold Geotechnical loses manslaughter appeal

13-May-2011
A geotechnical contractor appealing against its conviction for corporate manslaughter has lost its legal challenge.
Vestas plans new turbine factory

12-May-2011
Wind turbine giant Vestas is planning to build a new factory in the UK, the company has said.
Marshalls paves way for success

12-May-2011
Paving supplier Marshalls has profited from a £10M increase in revenue in the first four months of the year.
Cold homes damage the environment

12-May-2011
A medical editorial which claims cold homes can be fatal as well as damage the environment has appeared, to coincide with a study on the subject commissioned by Friends of the Earth (FoE).
Double earthquakes kill 10 in Spain

12-May-2011
Two earthquakes struck south-east Spain in quick succession, killing at least 10 people - the country’s highest quake-related death toll in more than 50 years - injuring dozens and causing major damage.
Flood swamps poverty-hit delta

12-May-2011
Floodwaters from the bloated Mississippi River and its tributaries spilled across farm fields, cut off churches, washed over roads and forced people from their homes in the poverty-stricken Delta region.
Huhne launches new European grid link

12-May-2011
Energy secretary Chris Huhne is launching the first new grid connection to Europe for 25 years today, with the pledge that it marks the first step towards a North Sea “supergrid”.
12-month planning decision pledge

12-May-2011
The government has pledged that planning decisions will be made within 12 months, in a move designed to encourage development and cut red tape.
Business key to planning proposals

12-May-2011
Firms are to be given a greater role in neighbourhood plans under proposed changes to planning laws, the government has said.
Delta braced for historic flood

11-May-2011
The Mississippi River crested in Memphis at a height just inches short of the area’s all-time record but it is still soaking low-lying areas with enough water to require a massive cleanup.
High speed rail plans revealed in US

11-May-2011
Transport chiefs in the US have announced more than 20 new rail projects following the cancellation of a $2bn (£1.22bn) Florida line.
Spurs granted 2012 stadium review

11-May-2011
Tottenham has been granted permission for a judicial review into the decision to allow West Ham to move into the Olympic Stadium following next year’s Games.
Energy Bill clears first hurdle

11-May-2011
A number of measures to help millions of homes and businesses save energy have cleared their first Commons hurdle.
Budget offers £50M nuclear boost

10-May-2011
Nuclear energy companies will make £50M a year extra for the next two decades thanks to chancellor George Osborne’s Budget, the government has said.
Japan closes Hamaoka nuclear reactor

10-May-2011
The operator of the vulnerable Hamaoka nuclear power plant in central Japan says it has agreed to the government’s request to shut it, amid safety fears.
Mississippi rises to 1930s levels

10-May-2011
The Mississippi River has risen to levels in Memphis not seen since the 1930s, swamping homes in low-lying neighbourhoods and driving hundreds of people from their homes.
£52M heritage fund for Victorian pier and glasshouse

10-May-2011
Hastings pier and a Royal Botanic Gardens glasshouse in Kew are among five sites which could be in line for a share of £52M from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF).
Call to slow offshore wind development

9-May-2011
The Government should slow down plans to roll out thousands of offshore wind turbines in the UK’s seas by 2020, its climate advisors have indicated.
Fukushima fails to shake nuclear confidence

9-May-2011
The disaster at the tsunami-hit Fukushima reactors in Japan does not appear to have had much impact on public opinion on nuclear power in the UK, research suggests.
Green energy park to create jobs

9-May-2011
Hundreds of construction jobs could be created under plans to build a green energy park at the former site of a power station in Kent.
Farm's solar installation goes live

6-May-2011
A Herefordshire chicken farmer has flicked the switch on the UK’s largest privately-owned solar photovoltaics installation, which boasts 1,600 solar panels.
Workers in Fukushima reactor room for first time

5-May-2011
Workers have entered the reactor building of Unit 1 at Japan’s damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant for the first time since just after the earthquake and tsunami which devastated the site.
Obama declares state of emergency over flooding

5-May-2011
US President Barack Obama has declared an emergency for parts of Tennessee, Mississippi and Kentucky due to widespread flooding.
Firm takes plunge for £18M contract

5-May-2011
Graham Construction has landed a contract to build an £18M leisure centre in Glenrothes for Fife District Council.
McAlpine upbeat despite profits dip

4-May-2011
Sir Robert McAlpine has announced an industry-beating 4.6 per cent contracting operating margin for 2010, despite a dip in turnover and profits.
BP fined millions over 2006 oil spill

4-May-2011
BP’s subsidiary in Alaska has agreed to pay a $25M (£16M) civic penalty over a 2006 oil spill, it has been revealed.
Miners killed in Mexico explosion

4-May-2011
Three miners have been killed and 11 have been left trapped underground after a gas explosion hit a coal mine in northern Mexico.
Balfour Beatty to restart build with new backer

3-May-2011
Balfour Beatty looks set to restart work on a stalled development in Birmingham after the financial backer was confirmed.
Peel cleared over renewable power plant ad

3-May-2011
Peel Holdings subsidiary has fought off complaints about its manner of promoting a planned power plant in North Yorkshire.
Building collapses in southern Turkey

3-May-2011
Turkish media say a seven-storey building has collapsed in the south of the country.
US army explodes Mississippi levee

3-May-2011
The US Army Corps of Engineers exploded a large section of a Mississippi River levee on Monday in a desperate attempt to protect an Illinois town from rising floodwaters.
Device raises tidal power hopes

3-May-2011
A team of engineers has developed a turbine which they claim will produce the world’s first domestically affordable electricity from tidal energy within a year.
Adviser quits over Fukushima crisis

3-May-2011
Criticism of the Japanese government’s handling of the radiation crisis at a nuclear power plant has increased after an adviser quit in protest over what he claimed were unsafe, slipshod measures.
Five teenagers held in M1 blaze probe

28-Apr-2011
Five teenagers have been arrested in connection with a blaze which closed the M1 motorway in north London in both directions, Scotland Yard has said.
Poor value PFI deals 'must be axed'

28-Apr-2011
A spending watchdog has told the Government it must cancel or renegotiate PFI contracts if they are not good value.
Five killed as tree fall derails train

28-Apr-2011
A popular tourist train overturned in Taiwan’s southern mountains, killing five Chinese visitors.
Obama declares state of emergency over storms

28-Apr-2011
US president Barack Obama has declared an emergency after a wave of tornado-spawning storms tore through the South, splintering buildings and killing more than 70 people in four states.
Turkey to build Bosphorus bypass

28-Apr-2011
Turkey is to build a “crazy and magnificent” canal to bypass the tanker-clogged Bosphorus in a massive feat of engineering.
US storm death toll rises to 11

27-Apr-2011
A second straight night of storms has ripped through northern Arkansas, taking the death toll to 11.
Tata invests £53M to cut plant's energy bill

27-Apr-2011
Tata Steel has announced plans to reduce the power required by its Port Talbot steelworks in a bid to progress its aim of becoming self-sufficient in energy.
Recycling plant win for Clugston

27-Apr-2011
Clugston Construction has secured an £8m contract to build a waste treatment and recycling facility in North Lincolnshire.
Council backs Sheffield Steelworks build

27-Apr-2011
Stocksbridge Regeneration has had its plans for new Tata Steel facilities on the edge of Sheffield backed by the city council.
Flooding risk changes stadium plans

26-Apr-2011
Plans have been recommended to raise Rotherham United’s new football stadium by more than 2m to protect it from flooding.
Speedy Hire sells loss-making arm

26-Apr-2011
A provider of temporary accommodation at high-profile sites such as the London Olympics and Crossrail has been sold in a deal worth £35M.
Indonesia suffers magnitude 5.4 earthquake

26-Apr-2011
An earthquake has hit waters off Indonesia’s main island of Java.
Unibeton Ready Mix reveals low carbon concrete

21-Apr-2011
Unibeton Ready Mix has revealed plans for a concrete product that will slash CO2 emissions by up to 93%.
City unveils £120M green schools

21-Apr-2011
Schoolchildren in Aberdeen are benefiting from the latest HVAC technology following the completion of a £120M project.
Japan declares Fukushima no-go zone

21-Apr-2011
Japan has declared a 19km area evacuated around its radiation-spewing nuclear power plant a no-go zone, urging residents to abide by the order for their own safety or possibly face fines or detention.
Ban Ki-moon calls for nuclear accident planning

21-Apr-2011
The world must prepare for more nuclear accidents on the scale of Chernobyl and Japan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, the UN chief warned, saying that grim reality will demand sharp improvements in international co-operation.
Road repairs 'cost taxpayers £70M'

20-Apr-2011
Councils are being left to foot the bill as contractors fail to carry out road repairs properly, it has been claimed.
Alaska gold mine plans 'too risky'

20-Apr-2011
Plans by a London-based mining company for a massive gold and copper mine in Alaska are “too risky” for the environment, local communities have warned.
Caution areas considered around Fukushima

20-Apr-2011
Authorities were considering restricting access to the evacuation zone around Japan’s crippled nuclear plant to limit radiation exposure to residents who may want to return to their homes.
Radioactive water pumped out of Fukushima basement

19-Apr-2011
The operator of Japan’s crippled nuclear plant has begun pumping highly radioactive water from the basement of one reactor’s turbine building to a makeshift storage area - a key step in stabilising the complex.
ICE Scotland infrastructure warning

19-Apr-2011
Scotland must prioritise maintaining and improving its infrastructure in order to come out of recession, civil engineers have warned.
CBI warns of investment barriers

19-Apr-2011
The UK’s reputation as a good place to invest is under threat unless the government tackles “stumbling blocks” such as regulation and planning issues, business leaders have warned.
Government orders transport risk audit

19-Apr-2011
The government has ordered an audit of road and railways that could be at risk of industrial accident after a scrapyard fire brought gridlock to thousands of commuters on the M1.
Boris appoints deputy mayor for planning

19-Apr-2011
The Conservative leader of Wandsworth Council has been appointed as the Mayor of London’s chief of staff and also the deputy mayor for planning.
Mace wins £50.5M Thames cable car contract

18-Apr-2011
Construction of a cable car across the River Thames is to begin this summer, Transport for London (TfL) has announced.
Engineers battle to reopen M1

18-Apr-2011
Engineers worked through the night to attempt to make southbound lanes on a fire-damaged section of the M1 motorway safe to reopen to traffic by Monday morning.
Nuclear plants told to improve power links

18-Apr-2011
Japan’s nuclear safety agency told plant operators to check and improve outside power links to avoid earthquake-related breakdowns similar to those causing the country’s current nuclear crisis.
Fukushima disaster plan criticised

18-Apr-2011
A blueprint for ending radiation leaks and stabilising reactors at Japan’s crippled nuclear plant drew a lacklustre response today as polls showed diminishing public support for the government’s handling of the country’s recent disasters.
Tepco to compensate displaced citizens

15-Apr-2011
Japan’s government said today it had ordered the operator of the tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant embroiled in the country’s worst-ever atomic crisis to pay about £7,300 to each household forced to evacuate because of radiation leaks.
Heygate demolition set to begin

15-Apr-2011
Demolition teams are set to move in on one of Britain’s most well-known housing estates.
Government confirms PFI funding for street lighting schemes

14-Apr-2011
The government yesterday confirmed more than £430M for street lighting funding including £100M for Cambridgeshire.
Improved infrastructure could boost economy by £10bn a year, says repor

14-Apr-2011
Improvements to transport, energy and IT communications could boost the economy by £10 billion a year, a report by business leaders have said.
Tepco attempts to remove Fukushima fuel rods

14-Apr-2011
The operator of Japan’s tsunami-flooded nuclear power complex is seeking ways to pull damaged spent fuel rods out of a storage pool at one of its reactors, citing surging radiation and elevated temperatures as worrisome signs.
Tottenham Hotspur seeks stadium judicial review

14-Apr-2011
Tottenham Hotspur has taken the first step in the club’s legal battle to challenge the decision to hand the Olympic Stadium to West Ham United.
Runway extension 'still needed'

14-Apr-2011
A runway extension at Belfast City Airport is still necessary despite the launch of a range of European routes using the current one, the chief executive has insisted.
£100M earmarked to improve river quality

13-Apr-2011
More than £100M is being provided to help improve England’s rivers for wildlife such as otters and trout, environment secretary Caroline Spelman has said.
Japan's PM appeals for public calm

13-Apr-2011
Japan’s prime minister has made a public appeal for calm after the nuclear plant crisis was raised to the highest alert level - on par with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
Row brews over Olympic velopark legacy

12-Apr-2011
British Cycling and Sport England have lodged joint objections to new plans for the velopark after the London 2012 Games.
Speedy Hire expects "marginal loss"

12-Apr-2011
Speedy Hire anticipates that it will make a slight loss when its full-year figures are published next month.
Road satisfaction rate plummets

12-Apr-2011
Only a third of people are satisfied with the quality of the UK’s roads, according to a survey from the ICE.
Fukushima crisis at Chernobyl severity level

12-Apr-2011
Japan’s nuclear safety agency raised the severity rating of the crisis at its nuclear plant to the highest level today, on a par with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
Japan battles to resume power supplies

11-Apr-2011
Electrical power was slowly being restored in tsunami-ravaged northern Japan following a strong aftershock, though more than a quarter of a million homes remained in the dark.
Japanese schools still housing refugees

11-Apr-2011
Aid organisations have warned that thousands of children in Japan are still unable to return to school a month after the tsunami - as many of their classrooms are still full of people left homeless following the disaster.
Japan marks one month since tsunami

11-Apr-2011
Sirens wailed and people bowed their heads and wept along Japan’s devastated north-east coast today as they marked a month since the devastating tsunami which killed up to 25,000 people and unleashed a nuclear crisis.
Eden Project to get greener still

11-Apr-2011
A series of upgrades will help the Eden Project cut its CO2 emissions by 25 per cent over the next two years.
2012 Marble Arch Russian ice rink unveiled

8-Apr-2011
Sochi 2014 winter Olympics organisers have announced plans to construct an ice rink in the heart of London during the 2012 Games.
Road reopened after Californian landslide

7-Apr-2011
Residents of a northern California town who were trapped for three days by a landslide have had access in and out of town restored.
Nitrogen injected into Fukushima reactor

7-Apr-2011
After notching a rare victory by stopping highly radioactive water from flowing into the Pacific, workers at Japan’s flooded nuclear power complex turned to their next task: injecting nitrogen to prevent more hydrogen explosions.
Balfour Beatty buys energy firm

7-Apr-2011
Energy procurement and carbon strategy consultancy Power Efficiency has been bought by Balfour Beatty for £18M.
Fukushima workers halt radioactive water leak

6-Apr-2011
Workers at Japan’s tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant have finally halted a leak that was sending a tide of radioactive water into the Pacific and exacerbating concerns over the safety of seafood, the operator said.
Seven killed in US spring storms

6-Apr-2011
At least seven people died in southern states of the US as fast-moving spring storms packing high winds, hail and lightning blew through the region.
Radioactive water pumped into Pacific

5-Apr-2011
Workers are pumping more than 13.6M litres of contaminated water from Japan’s tsunami-ravaged nuclear power complex into the Pacific Ocean, freeing storage space for even more highly radioactive water that has hampered efforts to stabilise the plant’s reactors.
Firm fined £6,000 over safety rules

5-Apr-2011
Coventry Construction has been fined £6,000 for repeatedly breaking health and safety regulations.
Road maintenance changes "could save 6,000 lives"

4-Apr-2011
As many as 6,000 lives could be saved on Britain’s roads over the next 10 years if just a fraction of the money being spent on road maintenance was used more effectively, a report has said.
Oil tax "could cost industry £50bn"

4-Apr-2011
A new windfall tax on oil from the North Sea could put billions of pounds of investment at risk over the next decade, industry leaders have warned.
Welsh hydro-electric plant approved

4-Apr-2011
A hydro-electric mini power plant off the coast of west Wales has been given the go-ahead by the Government.
Dye used to track radioactive water in Japan

4-Apr-2011
Workers used a milky white dye today as they frantically tried to trace the path of highly radioactive water which is gushing from a tsunami-damaged Japanese nuclear plant and leaking into the ocean.
BP to resume deepwater drilling in Gulf of Mexico

4-Apr-2011
BP plans to restart deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico this summer just a year after the Deepwater Horizon explosion that sparked the worst oil spill in history.
More trains with High Speed Two, says Hammond

1-Apr-2011
Train frequencies could almost double at some towns if the Government’s HS2 high-speed rail project goes ahead, Transport Secretary Philip Hammond has said.
Radiation leaks into groundwater

1-Apr-2011
Radiation exceeding government safety limits has seeped into groundwater under a tsunami-crippled Japanese nuclear plant, according to the operator, but has not affected drinking supplies.
Network Rail debt guarantee criticised

1-Apr-2011
The Government guarantee for Network Rail’s debt “blunts the incentives” for the company’s management to operate efficiently, a Whitehall spending watchdog said.
'£10bn needed' to fix road potholes

31-Mar-2011
A report has indicated that it will cost local authorities more than £10bn to repair roads damaged by last year’s extreme winter weather.
Radiation levels rise outside plant

31-Mar-2011
New readings show radiation levels continue to rise in the ocean outside a leaking nuclear plant in Japan’s north east, officials said today, as they debated whether to broaden the evacuation zone around the tsunami-damaged facility.
Network Rail pleads guilty over Potters Bar

31-Mar-2011
Rail infrastructure company Network Rail (NR) pleaded guilty yesterday to breaching safety regulations over the 2002 Potters Bar train crash which claimed seven lives.
Spurs challenge stadium decision in court

31-Mar-2011
Tottenham Hotspur is to take court action over the decision to hand the Olympic Stadium to West Ham after the 2012 Games, the BBC has said.
Smart meters 'will slash bills'

31-Mar-2011
Rolling out “smart” meters to all homes and businesses in Britain will save the average consumer £23 a year on their energy bills by 2020, the government has said.
High Speed Two 'could mean worse trains'

30-Mar-2011
Many train passengers will face slower and less-frequent services if the Government’s HS2 high-speed rail scheme goes ahead, a report from the TaxPayers’ Alliance has claimed.
Statoil halts North Sea project over tax rise

30-Mar-2011
Energy giant Statoil has halted work on a North Sea development following Chancellor George Osborne’s decision to increase tax on the industry.
Biggest radiation spike recorded at Fukushima

30-Mar-2011
Seawater outside the crippled nuclear power plant in north-eastern Japan was found to contain 3,335 times the usual amount of radioactive iodine - the highest rate yet and a sign that more contaminated water was making its way into the ocean, officials said today.
UK green investment "down 70%"

30-Mar-2011
The UK has plummeted down G20 rankings for investment in clean energy amid uncertainty about the coalition’s commitment to renewables, a report has said.
Balfour Beatty faces Tube criticism

29-Mar-2011
London Underground is to meet with Balfour Beatty to probe why Tube passengers faced travel delays on Monday morning.
Olympic Stadium build completed

29-Mar-2011
International inspectors will lay the last piece of turf in the Olympic Stadium today as they begin a check-up of preparations for the London 2012 Games.
Civil engineer named Business Woman of the Year

29-Mar-2011
A woman who helped her parents build a house when she was 11 years old and later became a successful civil engineer today won a prestigious business award.
Plutonium leaks from stricken reactor

29-Mar-2011
Highly toxic plutonium is seeping from the damaged nuclear power plant in Japan’s tsunami disaster zone into the soil outside, officials said.
Seven missing after Swiss avalanche

28-Mar-2011
Seven people are missing after an avalanche swept away eleven people near Switzerland’s southern border with Italy, police said.
China rejects nuclear moratorium

28-Mar-2011
China has said it has faith in the safety of its nuclear power technology and will not scrap plans to expand its domestic industry because of Japan’s crisis.
Green light for Irish gas pipeline

28-Mar-2011
The new Government in Dublin has been accused of only having a different name than its predecessor as it gave Shell Ireland the final green light for the controversial Corrib Gas Pipeline.
Contaminated seawater spreads north from stricken Japanese plant

28-Mar-2011
Highly radioactive iodine seeping from Japan’s damaged nuclear complex may be making its way into seawater further north of the plant than previously thought, officials said today, adding to radiation concerns as the crisis stretches into a third week.
Huhne outlines UK's nuclear plan

25-Mar-2011
The Government has refused to authorise the use in the UK of the same type of reactor that engineers in Japan are struggling to fix at the nuclear power plant in Fukushima, energy secretary Chris Huhne has revealed.
Reactor core damage feared at Fukushima

25-Mar-2011
Japanese nuclear safety officials say they suspect that the reactor core at one unit of the troubled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant may have breached.
Scores killed in Burma earthquake

25-Mar-2011
A strong earthquake that toppled homes in north eastern Burma has killed more than 40 people, and there were fears today the toll would mount as conditions in more remote areas became known.
Property damaged by freak waves

25-Mar-2011
The Honduran government said unusually high waves almost 2.4m tall have destroyed more than a dozen food stalls and homes and a lot of palm trees on the country’s Pacific Coast.
Water radiation fears reach Tokyo

24-Mar-2011
Workers have doled out bottled water to Tokyo families after warnings that radiation from Japan’s tsunami-damaged nuclear plant had seeped into the city’s water supply.
New designs sought for Aberdeen City Square

24-Mar-2011
New designs are being sought to replace a planned scheme by architect Brisac Gonzalez in the centre of Aberdeen.
Radiation fears over Tokyo tap water

23-Mar-2011
Tokyo Water Bureau officials said levels of radioactive iodine in some city tap water is two times the recommended limit for infants.
Smoke prompts Fukushima plant evacuation

23-Mar-2011
Black smoke has been seen emerging from Unit 3 of the crippled nuclear plant in north-eastern Japan, prompting a new evacuation of the complex, according to officials.
Two wind farm projects approved

23-Mar-2011
The Scottish Government has agreed to allow two wind farm projects to go ahead, despite opposition from aviation radar operators.
Repairs continue at stricken plant

22-Mar-2011
Officials are racing to restore electricity to Japan’s leaking nuclear plant, but getting the power flowing will hardly be the end of their battle: with its mangled machinery and partly melted reactor cores, bringing the complex under control is a monstrous job.
Japan braced for second earthquake

22-Mar-2011
Geologists have warned that an earthquake could strike near Tokyo after the recent disaster which hit north-eastern Japan altered the Earth’s surface, putting stress on a segment of the fault line near the city.
UK nuclear plant delay 'minimal'

21-Mar-2011
Energy firm EDF Energy has said Japan’s crisis is unlikely to significantly delay the UK’s £50bn nuclear power plant building programme, it has been reported.
Two nuclear units cooled in Japan

21-Mar-2011
Two separate units at Japan’s embattled Fukushima nuclear plant have been safely cooled down, despite an unexpected increase in pressure in a third unit’s reactor.
Parliament to probe High Speed Two scheme

21-Mar-2011
The Government’s controversial High Speed Two (HS2) high-speed rail scheme, which will initially run from London to Birmingham, is to be the subject of a Parliamentary committee inquiry, it has been announced.
Jarvis Potters Bar charge dropped

18-Mar-2011
A health and safety charge against rail maintenance company Jarvis over the 2002 Potters Bar train crash has been dropped.
Japan seeks US help to cool reactors

18-Mar-2011
Japan has reached out to the US for help in reining in the crisis at its dangerously overheated nuclear complex, while the UN atomic energy chief called the disaster a race against the clock that demands global cooperation.
Japan begins water drop on reactor

17-Mar-2011
Military helicopters have dumped loads of seawater onto Japan’s stricken nuclear complex, turning to combat-style tactics while trying to cool overheated uranium fuel that may be on the verge of spewing out more radiation.
Christchurch abandons RWC host hopes

17-Mar-2011
The seven Rugby World Cup matches due to be played in earthquake-hit Christchurch will be moved to other venues in New Zealand, tournament organisers have announced.
We still need nuclear, Cameron

17-Mar-2011
David Cameron has said lessons should be learned in the UK following explosions at a Japanese nuclear plant but insisted atomic power was necessary for Britain’s energy needs.
Shepherd and 5plus get Trafford job

16-Mar-2011
Shepherd Developments and 5plus Architects have been told they can redevelop Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council’s Grade II-listed town hall.
Japanese nuclear radiation levels rise

16-Mar-2011
Workers battling to see off meltdown at Japan’s damaged nuclear plant have been forced to suspend operations following a rise in radiation levels.
Battersea power station may have park

16-Mar-2011
Treasury Holdings has submitted plans for a new riverside park at the site of Battersea Power Station.
Eco-town proposals 'fell short'

16-Mar-2011
Terry Farrell and Partners’ plans for an eco-town in Oxfordshire “fell short of the mark”, a Government watchdog review has found.
Cost of tsunami damage to USA leaps

15-Mar-2011
Lost homes, sunken boats and damaged piers caused tsunami damage estimates to jump into the tens of millions of pounds in Hawaii and California.
Radiation danger upgraded after third explosion

15-Mar-2011
Radiation leaks from a damaged nuclear power plant in tsunami-hit Japan now pose a risk to human health, officials have warned.
Second blast at nuclear plant hits as death toll passes 10,000

14-Mar-2011
A second hydrogen blast in three days rocked Japan’s earthquake-stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant today, sending a massive column of smoke into the air and injuring 11 people.
CCS plan 'could create 13,000 jobs'

14-Mar-2011
At least 13,000 jobs could be created by storing carbon dioxide deep below the sea off the Scottish coast, a report has found.
Bovis profits jump after cost push

14-Mar-2011
Housebuilder Bovis Homes has said underlying profits more than doubled after it sold more properties at higher average prices than last year.
Solar energy project starts at farm

14-Mar-2011
A farm owner has started work on the UK’s largest privately-owned solar PV installation, which will stretch across an area of building rooftops the equivalent of 10 tennis courts.
'Most severe crisis' since Second World War

13-Mar-2011
The death toll in Japan’s earthquake and tsunami is likely to exceed 10,000 in one state alone, an official has said, as millions of survivors were left without drinking water, electricity and proper food along the pulverized north-eastern coast.
Mass evacuation amid growing nuclear fears

13-Mar-2011
Japan’s nuclear crisis has intensified as authorities raced to combat the threat of multiple reactor meltdowns and evacuated more than 170,000 people after the devastating earthquake and tsunami.
Pacific tsunami warning as huge quake rocks Japan

11-Mar-2011
An earthquake measuring 8.9 on the Richter scale rocked Japan’s north-eastern coast today, unleashing a 4m tsunami which swept boats, cars, buildings and tonnes of debris miles inland.
Capita Symonds wins forces deal

10-Mar-2011
Capita Symonds has been selected to design a new £22M rehabilitation centre in Plymouth for injured servicemen and women.
Firms offered 'build now, pay later'

10-Mar-2011
Publicly owned land is to be handed over to construction companies who will be allowed pay nothing until they sell every home built on it, the Financial Times has reported.
Glasgow subway plan 'to be subsidised'

10-Mar-2011
A project to upgrade Glasgow’s underground train network, costing £290M, will receive a “substantial” subsidy from the Scottish Government, an MSP has said.
'Eco-Trailblazer' town to be built

10-Mar-2011
Planning permission has been granted for a road to access a new community in Devon, which is set to be built in the coming months.
Weir in upbeat mood as profits surge

9-Mar-2011
Pump and valves maker Weir said its five-year plan to double profits remained on track after a year in which it stormed into the FTSE 100 Index.
Japan hit by major offshore earthquake

9-Mar-2011
A magnitude 7.3 earthquake has struck off Japan’s north-eastern coast, shaking buildings hundreds of miles away in Tokyo and triggering a small tsunami.
Costain considering new takeover targets

9-Mar-2011
Costain is looking at several new acquistions as it attempts to transform its business after efforts to buy Mouchel came to nothing.
Interserve posts pretax profit fall

9-Mar-2011
Interserve has revealed a fall in full-year pretax profits, but the company expects to see stable trading conditions this year.
Drill to test flood agencies' flood response

7-Mar-2011
A school will be evacuated, helicopters scrambled and people rescued from rooftops this week as part of a £1.8 million exercise to test how prepared England and Wales are for devastating floods.
Parts of Christchurch to be abandoned

7-Mar-2011
New Zealand’s prime minister has said around 10,000 houses in Christchurch would have to be demolished because of earthquake damage and some parts of the city abandoned altogether.
Mersey Gateway project kicks off

4-Mar-2011
An event aimed at potential bidders for the £431M Mersey Gateway project has been attended by around 130 industry representatives.
Winter freeze costs Northern Ireland Water £7.5M

4-Mar-2011
A new report has revealed that the winter freeze cost Northern Ireland Water £7.5M, but added that there was no immediate need for a change in investment levels.
Historic canal bridges to be restored

4-Mar-2011
Two bridges that span a historic canal are being returned to their former glory.
Judge overturns Amazon dam suspension

4-Mar-2011
A Brazilian judge has overturned a lower court ruling which suspended work on a massive hydroelectric dam in the Amazon jungle state of Para.
Christchurch stadium damage threatens Rugby World Cup

3-Mar-2011
Earthquake damage to hotels and a stadium could lead to the cancellation of seven planned Rugby World Cup matches in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Purchasers survey claims construction activity back on the rise

3-Mar-2011
Construction industry activity has reached an eight-month peak, according to the latest Markit/CIPS Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) survey.
PPL buys Eon's UK power networks

3-Mar-2011
US energy company PPL has announced it is buying E.On’s UK power networks in a deal worth nearly £4bn.
Manchester Metropolitan University submits campus plans

3-Mar-2011
A planning application has been submitted by Manchester Metropolitan University after it worked with architect Sheppard Robson on designs for its £110M Birley Fields campus in Hulme.
£500M pay-back clause in tram grant

3-Mar-2011
Scotland’s capital could be obliged to pay back up to £500M if it is unable to complete the city’s tram project, a senior official from the national transport agency has said.
Clyde Gateway to get £21.5M funding

2-Mar-2011
The Clyde Gateway project is to receive more than £20M of Scotland’s urban regeneration funding for its regeneration of Glasgow’s east end, it has been announced.
Welsh renewable policy published

2-Mar-2011
Planning authority decisions in Wales must in future be considered under a national framework for renewable energy, according to fresh guidance issued by the Assembly Government.
Silence observed for quake victims

1-Mar-2011
The nation of New Zealand has observed a two-minute silence to mourn as many as 240 people who died in the Christchurch earthquake exactly one week ago.
Norwich bypass plans may face axe

1-Mar-2011
Planning inspectors believe funding problems may mean a proposed bypass to the north-east of Norwich is never built.
Government begins consultation for £17bn high speed rail scheme

28-Feb-2011
An important stage in controversial Government plans for the High Speed Two (HS2) high-speed rail (HSR) line will be reached today when transport secretary Philip Hammond launches a six-month consultation on the £17bn project.
LDA set for massive budget cuts

25-Feb-2011
London Development Agency’s funding may soon be decimated by a massive cuts plan devised by city mayor Boris Johnson.
Council could seek more tram funds

24-Feb-2011
Edinburgh Council has not ruled out asking the Scottish Government for more public money to complete the capital`s embattled tram project.
Christchurch death toll reaches 98

24-Feb-2011
Hopes of finding more survivors in the collapsed towers of New Zealand’s quake-shattered Christchurch have faded, as officials said the death toll rose to 98 with grave fears for more than 200 missing.
Report approves London cable car

24-Feb-2011
The mayor of London has had a scheme for cable cars across the River Thames passed as safe after an independent investigation.
Christchurch rescue teams enter second day

23-Feb-2011
Search and rescue teams sifting through the rubble in quake-stricken Christchurch entered a have second day of toil, as the disaster’s death toll rose to 75.
Villagers flee restive volcano

22-Feb-2011
Hundreds of villagers have fled to safety after a restive volcano belched ash and smoke into the sky after a month-long lull in the Philippines.
Deadly earthquake hits Christchurch

22-Feb-2011
A deadly earthquake has killed more than 65 people on New Zealand’s South Island.
Renewables 'to lead to £8bn market'

21-Feb-2011
Increasing worldwide capacity for renewable energy generation should lead to a market for batteries and electricity storage technology worth around £8.4bn a year by 2020, a management consulting firm has predicted.
High Speed 1 fire inquest begins

21-Feb-2011
An inquest will begin today into the deaths of two railwaymen killed when fire ripped through a section of the Channel Tunnel rail link when it was under construction more than five years ago.
Increased demand boosts steel production

21-Feb-2011
Steel production in the UK bounced back in January from the previous month as UK manufacturing continued to respond to increased demand, according to research.
Network Rail and Jarvis face Potters Bar trial

21-Feb-2011
Rail chiefs are to appear in court accused of health and safety failings at the 2002 Potters Bar train crash.
Tarmac tie-up with Lafarge planned

18-Feb-2011
Tarmac owner Anglo American and France’s Lafarge have unveiled plans to move their cement, aggregates, ready-mixed concrete and asphalt operations into a new UK joint venture.
New planning rules reconsidered

18-Feb-2011
The Government will look again at the Localism Bill in a bid to strengthen rules that would see authorities work together across council boundaries on planning decisions.
HS2 will "boost rail services"

17-Feb-2011
Building the London to Birmingham HS2 high-speed rail line will benefit towns and cities across southern England, according to a report.
Wind industry sets out cash incentives

17-Feb-2011
The wind industry has outlined a pledge to provide cash benefits to communities which host wind farms.
Olympic Stadium architect in plea over sole use

17-Feb-2011
London mayor Boris Johnson has been urged not to approve sole use of the Stratford venue after the 2012 Olympics to West Ham United by the architect who drew up the original masterplan for the Games and the Paralympics.
Scottish road backlog hits £2.25bn

17-Feb-2011
Over a third of Scotland’s roads are in an unacceptable condition while the maintenance backlog for repairs now runs to £2.25bn, according to a new report.
Final 2012 bill unknown, says spending watchdog

16-Feb-2011
Question marks still hang over the size of the final bill the taxpayer will face to cover the cost of the London 2012 Games, the Government’s spending watchdog has said.
Second cyclone hits Australia

16-Feb-2011
A cyclone struck a glancing blow on Australia’s main northern city today, two weeks after a much stronger storm devastated another part of the weather-weary country.
Osborne wins Greenwich contract

16-Feb-2011
Osborne has won the contract to construct the University of Greenwich’s new campus in south London.
Solar farm firms plead for subsidy

15-Feb-2011
Energy companies developing solar “farms” have hit out at a review aimed at removing green subsidies from the commercial ventures, warning they represent better value for money than household solar panels.
China's railway chief investigated

14-Feb-2011
China’s minister of railways is being investigated for “severe violation of discipline” and has been removed from a key political post.
Chile hit by major earthquake

14-Feb-2011
A magnitude-6.8 earthquake struck central Chile, centred in almost exactly the same spot where last year’s magnitude-8.8 quake spawned a tsunami and devastated coastal communities.
West Ham to move into Olympic Stadium

11-Feb-2011
West Ham United are to move into the Olympic Stadium after the London 2012 Games, the Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC) has announced.
RIBA awards 2011 honorary fellows

11-Feb-2011
High-achievers from the world of engineering were among those honoured with Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) honorary fellowships earlier this month.
MP attacks 'rag-tag' HS2 opponents

11-Feb-2011
Tory MP Graham Evans has launched a scathing attack on opponents of the £33bn high-speed rail plan, calling them a “ragtag alliance of luddites and nimbys”.
Boss 'astonished' man went into pit

11-Feb-2011
A businessman employing a geologist who died in a pit when it collapsed in on him said he was “astonished” his employee had gone down into it, a court heard yesterday.
High Court to rule on BSF challenge

11-Feb-2011
The High Court rules today on the legality of the Government’s decision to scrap school building projects in different parts of the country.
Firm fined £10k for demolition asbestos breach

11-Feb-2011
Berry Estates Development Limited has been fined £10,000 and ordered to pay costs of £3,391 for failing to carry out work correctly or properly manage asbestos while demolishing an old church in Snodland, Kent.
Flood tax bill placed before Australian Parliament

10-Feb-2011
Australia’s prime minister has introduced tax legislation to Parliament that would help pay for record storm and flood damage, as debate raged about whether the government should instead cut foreign aid.
China announces drought alleviation funding

10-Feb-2011
China will spend $1bn (£622M) to alleviate the effects of its worst drought in six decades - a long dry spell in the world’s largest wheat-growing region that has raised the commodity’s global price.
Humber Gateway wind farm approved

10-Feb-2011
A new offshore wind farm which will generate enough electricity to power the equivalent of 150,000 homes has been given the go-ahead by the Government.
West Ham 'winning stadium race'

10-Feb-2011
Officials will gather tomorrow to discuss the future of the Olympic Stadium following the 2012 games, amid claims that Premier League football club West Ham have already won the race to take it over.
Tower damaged on 9/11 dismantled

9-Feb-2011
Nearly a decade after it was badly damaged by the falling south tower of the World Trade Center, a 41-storey New York bank tower has finally been dismantled down to street level.
China braced for 'severe, long-lasting' drought

9-Feb-2011
Chinese officials are preparing for “a severe, long-lasting drought” in the worst-hit eastern province of Shandong, with the national weather bureau forecasting little if any rain for the region until 17 February.
Pit death geologist 'knew of risks'

9-Feb-2011
The firm director employing a junior geotechnical engineer who died in a pit when it collapsed in on him told a court yesterday he was “absolutely confident” the dead man knew what he was doing.
Spurs unveils city stadium plans

8-Feb-2011
Tottenham Hotspur FC has unveiled the first image of its design for replacing the Olympic Stadium once the 2012 Games are finished.
Liverpool pulls out of Big Society pilot

7-Feb-2011
The leader of Liverpool City Council has written to the Prime Minister informing him that the authority is pulling out of the Government’s Big Society plans.
IoD calls for planning law overhaul

7-Feb-2011
Planning and employment laws should be overhauled in favour of companies to kickstart the economy, business leaders have told the Government.
Australia hit by after effects of Cyclone Yasi

7-Feb-2011
The tail end of one of Australia’s largest cyclones triggered wild storms and flash flooding at the other end of the country, while residents at the epicentre picked through what was left of their homes.
Australian troops join cyclone relief effort

4-Feb-2011
Australia has marshalled 4,000 troops and sent a supply ship containing tonnes of food to its cyclone-stricken north-east coast, as residents in wrecked towns confronted debris that included boats hurled into gardens.
Council leaders condemn Spurs bid

4-Feb-2011
The Olympic Park Legacy Company has a received letter from twelve London borough council leaders requesting that West Ham be appointed the new owners of the Olympic stadium.
Cyclone makes landfall in Queensland

3-Feb-2011
A powerful cyclone ripped across Australia’s north-east coast, blasting apart houses, laying waste to banana crops and leaving boats lying in the streets of wind and wave-swept towns.
Hope grows over South Wales rail link

3-Feb-2011
Welsh secretary Cheryl Gillan has revealed she is “optimistic” over plans to electrify the main railway line between London and South Wales.
Court hears of trench collapse fear

3-Feb-2011
A colleague of a Cheltenham geologist who died in a pit when it collapsed in on him has told a jury he would have been nervous doing the dead man’s job.
Localism Bill's impact assessed

2-Feb-2011
The Government has predicted that 380 neighbourhood plans will be created annually in the first five years after the implementation of the Localism Bill.
Queensland braced for cyclone landfall

2-Feb-2011
Tens of thousands of Australians have stockpiled food and are waiting in sturdy shelters as a monster cyclone approached the north east coast with furious winds, rain and surging seas on a scale unseen in generations.
Banks announces wind farm proposals

2-Feb-2011
Energy firm Banks Renewables is teaming up with Askham Bryan College to build a new wind farm beside the A64 road south west of York.
Six killed in further Brazilian flooding

2-Feb-2011
Severe floods triggered by torrential downpours have killed at least six people in southern Brazil and driven thousands from their homes.
Eurotunnel trials anti-fire system

2-Feb-2011
A hi-tech heat detection system which uses water mist to contain fire, reducing temperatures from 900°C to 250°C in less than three minutes, has been demonstrated by Channel Tunnel operator Eurotunnel.
Thames cable car plan moves closer

1-Feb-2011
Plans for a cable car stretching 1.1km across the River Thames to link venues for the 2012 Olympics have moved a step closer.
Cyclone heading for Queensland coast

1-Feb-2011
Authorities scrambled to airlift hospital patients from the path of a cyclone roaring towards waterlogged north-eastern Australia today and urged residents to flee potentially deadly flash floods.
Two Forth bridge bids submitted

31-Jan-2011
The two bids in the running to build the new road bridge over the Firth of Forth have submitted their final proposals, it has emerged.
Tata plans to raise steel prices

31-Jan-2011
Tata Steel has revealed plans to raise transaction prices for structural sections in the UK by £95 per tonne from March.
Japanese residents flee as volcano erupts

31-Jan-2011
Officials urged more than 1,000 residents to seek safer ground today and expanded a no-access zone around a volcano that has exploded back to life in southern Japan.
Australian region braced for cyclone

31-Jan-2011
Australia’s flood-ravaged north east is bracing itself for a further crisis as a cyclone races towards the region which has already suffered billions of dollars worth of damage.
Groundbreaking corporate manslaughter trial opens

28-Jan-2011
A jury will hear details today of how a geologist died in the first prosecution of a business for corporate manslaughter under new legislation.
Australia introduces flood tax to pay for £3.5bn reconstruction

28-Jan-2011
The Australian government has proposed a tax to partially recoup the more than AUS$5bn (£3.1bn) it expects to spend on rebuilding after major flooding.
A90 improvements given go-ahead

28-Jan-2011
A stretch of the A90 Aberdeen to Ellon road is to be upgraded to a dual carriageway.
Northern Ireland loses out on £25M for creaky water system

27-Jan-2011
Northern Ireland’s dilapidated water system was starved of a much-needed £25M, which was given to the UK Government instead.
21 miners killed in Columbian blast

27-Jan-2011
An explosion at a Columbian coal mine has killed 21 workers.
Government committed to extending high speed rail

27-Jan-2011
Scottish secretary Michael Moore said the Government is committed to extending the planned high-speed rail network as far north as Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Workers died from asphyxiation

26-Jan-2011
Four workers who were killed in an accident while erecting a steel structure at an industrial site were “asphyxiated”, police said today.
76,000 construction workers to lose job

26-Jan-2011
As many as 76,000 workers are likely to lose their job in the industry this year, according to a report.
New renewables plans to spark 'dash for gas'

26-Jan-2011
MPs have warned that new Government rules to speed up the planning procedures for wind farms and power plants could spark a “dash for gas”.
Khan backs Oxfam Pakistan appeal

25-Jan-2011
Boxer Amir Khan is backing an Oxfam appeal to help people caught up in the aftermath of the Pakistan floods.
30 dead in Moscow airport blast

24-Jan-2011
A suicide bomber has killed more than 30 people and injured scores more at Moscow’s busiest airport.
Australian flooding to threaten towns for days

24-Jan-2011
A vast lake created by floodwaters will spread across southeastern Australia and threaten rural towns in its path for up to 10 more days, an official said Saturday as the nation’s flood crisis continued to create havoc and destruction.
Brazilian floods 'worst in over a century'

24-Jan-2011
Brazilian officials say the floods and mudslides that hit Rio de Janeiro state last week were this country’s deadliest natural disaster since 1900.
Former Haitian dictator returns 'to aid reconstruction'

24-Jan-2011
Former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier told Haitians he had returned after 25 years in exile to participate in the post-earthquake reconstruction of his homeland and was ready to face “persecution” for alleged crimes during his administration.
Fayed to challenge Surrey quarry ruling

21-Jan-2011
Mohamed al Fayed has vowed to take Surrey County Council to court if plans to extend a sand quarry on greenbelt land are successful.
Costain steps up Mouchel interest

21-Jan-2011
Contractor Costain has upped the ante in its battle for consultant Mouchel as it revealed a third takeover proposal worth more than £170M.
Hull selected for wind turbine plan

21-Jan-2011
A major offshore wind turbine manufacturing plant looks set to be built in a port city, bringing thousands of potential jobs to the region.
New bill 'may weaken conservation'

20-Jan-2011
The protection of England’s listed buildings and conservation areas could be jeopardised by government plans to hand over more power to local planning officials, conservationists have warned.
Mersey bridge plan could be "risky"

20-Jan-2011
Plans for the £600M Mersey Gateway Bridge represent a “serious financial risk”, according to a sustainable transport charity.
City funds construction and engineering training

19-Jan-2011
Liverpool City Council will fund an apprenticeship scheme focused on construction and civil engineering.
Prison build opens tender bidding

19-Jan-2011
The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) has invited pre-qualifying tenders to propose designs and build the HMP Grampian.
Last year saw '14% drop in insolvencies'

19-Jan-2011
The number of construction firms going bust is on the decline, but the industry could still be in danger, research by PwC has revealed.
Afan Lido building design unveiled

19-Jan-2011
Holder Mathias Architects has unveiled designs to rebuild one of Wales’ first purpose-built leisure centres, a year after it was damaged by fire.
No injuries reported after powerful Pakistan earthquake

19-Jan-2011
Pakistani authorities have dispatched teams to villages close to the epicentre of a powerful earthquake to check for damage and casualties.
Rising river threatens another Australian town

19-Jan-2011
Authorities told people in Australia’s south east to flee homes on Wednesday as a surging river threatened another community in the flooding crisis that has devastated the country’s mining industry.
Brisbane counts cost of flooding

18-Jan-2011
A huge clean-up is under way as deadly floodwaters recede in Brisbane, following one of Australia’s worst natural disasters.
Contractors snub Haitian firms

18-Jan-2011
Only a small proportion of Haitian-owned firms have benefited from the US contracts aimed at rebuilding the country following last year’s earthquake and the number of native workers hired was also smaller than expected, it has been revealed.
Boris renews support for new London airport

18-Jan-2011
London mayor Boris Johnson has backed a report calling for a brand new south-east England airport.
Nepal utility cuts power supply

18-Jan-2011
Power supply generated by Nepal’s state-owned utility has been reduced to just 12 hours a day as low rainfall hampers the country’s hydroelectric plants.
China breaks longest bridge record

18-Jan-2011
The Qingdao Haiwan Bridge in China has become the longest bridge over water in the world, surpassing the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in Louisiana by nearly three miles.
Shale gas repercussions "need exploring"

18-Jan-2011
Campaigners are calling for a ban on the extraction of “shale gas” in the UK until potential environmental and human health risks have been properly assessed.
Development fund bids revealed

17-Jan-2011
The first bids for cash from the Government’s flagship £1.4bn Regional Development Fund have been revealed.
V&A museum gets government millions

17-Jan-2011
The Victoria & Albert museum project in Dundee has been awarded almost £5M by the Scottish Government.
Bill "will add to council burdens"

17-Jan-2011
The Localism Bill has been described as a sham by Labour despite communities secretary Eric Pickles listing organisations backing the legislation.
Primus buys £80M Rok contracts for less than £1M

14-Jan-2011
London-based builder Primus has bought around £80M of contracts from collapsed firm Rok for less than £1M.
South Wales wind farm plans boosted

14-Jan-2011
Neath Port Talbot councillors have boosted plans for an onshore wind farm in South Wales by voting not to object.
President pledges flood relief cash

14-Jan-2011
The President of Brazil has pledged US$461 million (£295M) to repair the infrastructure in Rio and Sao Paulo which has been damaged by the recent rains.
Brisbane counts cost of flooding

14-Jan-2011
A huge clean-up is under way as deadly floodwaters recede in Brisbane, following one of Australia’s worst natural disasters.
Heron to build 43-storey skyscraper

13-Jan-2011
London planning chiefs have given the green light to a new 150m skyscraper by Heron International that will complement one of the city’s existing high-rise landmarks.
Call for Haiti rebuilding efforts

13-Jan-2011
Aid workers have called for long-term rebuilding efforts to be stepped up in Haiti a year after the devastating earthquake.
MVV set for waste plant contract

12-Jan-2011
Council chiefs have selected German energy firm MVV as their preferred bidder for a contract to build and operate a new waste disposal plant in Devon.
British Land pens development deal

12-Jan-2011
British Land will has agreed an £18M deal to buy a site near London’s Hyde Park to redevelop for offices, shops and luxury apartments.
Tallest Paris tower gets go ahead

12-Jan-2011
Planning permission has been granted for the Phare Tower, expected to be the tallest skyscraper in Paris.
Steel to turn tower into top venue

11-Jan-2011
Former Liberal leader Lord Steel is set to turn the 16th-century tower he owns into a “boutique” hotel and events venue.
Queensland floods predicted to worsen

11-Jan-2011
Deadly floods have left the Australian state of Queensland facing a massive rebuilding task as cars were tossed around like toys and entire towns were swamped with water.
Science Parks revamp plan announced

10-Jan-2011
Manchester Science Parks is to be revamped by architects John McAslan + Partners, creating 23,225sq.m of new floorspace for technology, creative and biotech firms.
Construction "worst sector for corporate failures"

10-Jan-2011
The construction industry was the UK’s worst affected sector for corporate failures in 2010, business recovery firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has said.
Petition over Donald Trump resort

10-Jan-2011
Residents who face losing their homes thanks to Donald Trump’s controversial golf resort are urging the Scottish Government to change planning regulations.
Laing O'Rourke suffers in Ireland

10-Jan-2011
The Irish arm of Laing O’Rourke went into the red in 2010 as revenues dropped and its workforce was slashed by more than half.
Israeli demolition "provocative"

10-Jan-2011
Britain has criticised Israel for resuming illegal settlement building in East Jerusalem – which it described as “provocative”.
China "to reprocess nuclear fuel"

10-Jan-2011
Scientists in China claim to have developed technology to reprocess nuclear fuel which could effectively end concerns about dwindling uranium supplies.
Olympic tower bid contest begins

7-Jan-2011
The Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC) has begun its search for candidates to run the £22.3M looping steel tower at the Olympic Park.
Australian floods start to ease

7-Jan-2011
Australian flood victims have been able to start returning to their homes after the crisis began to show signs of easing.
Bovis appointed to build Scotland arena

6-Jan-2011
Bovis Lend Lease will build the £125M Scottish National Arena in Glasgow, with construction beginning in February.
Funding approved for new bridge

6-Jan-2011
The Department for Transport (DfT) and Surrey County Council have agreed a deal to fund a new £32.3M road bridge between Walton and Shepperton in Surrey.
Ministers launch probe into water crisis as NI water boss resigns

6-Jan-2011
Northern Ireland government ministers will meet today to draw up plans for an inquiry into the water crisis that hit the region.
Car charging point rules relaxed

5-Jan-2011
The government has announced that landowners will not need planning permission to install charging points for electric cars.
Welsh energy plant plans considered

5-Jan-2011
The Infrastructure Planning Commission will consider a planning application for an energy-from-waste facility near Merthyr Tydfil in south Wales.
Hundreds of businesses face flooded premises

5-Jan-2011
Hundreds of business owners have returned to work to find their buildings and offices flooded.
Floodwaters peak in Australia

5-Jan-2011
Floodwaters in an inundated city on Australia’s north-eastern coast held steady below their predicted peak today as exhausted residents were warned they would face a long wait before the churning, muddy mess dries up.
Water firm chief urged to resign

4-Jan-2011
Tens of thousands of people in Northern Ireland are still without water in their homes and the head of the company behind the crisis has been urged to resign, according to reports.
Military drops supplies in flood-hit Australia

4-Jan-2011
Military aircraft have dropped supplies to towns cut off by floods in north-east Australia to the 200,000 people affected by waters covering an area larger than France and Germany combined.
UK burst water pipes wreak havoc

4-Jan-2011
Water companies across the UK have been flooded with calls from customers as the big thaw leaves Britain’s pipes burst and leaking.
Plastics and glass in construction could save time

4-Jan-2011
Using plastics and glass in the construction industry could be the answer to building bridges in half the time, engineers have claimed.
Costain wins £59M highways contract

4-Jan-2011
Costain has won a £59M highways contract to build a section of dual carriageway in Wales.
Quarter of Scottish power from renewable sources

24-Dec-2010
More than a quarter of Scotland’s electricity now comes from renewable energy sources, according to official statistics.
9/11 landmark gets capital go-ahead

24-Dec-2010
A towering sculpture made from steel salvaged from the World Trade Centre will be erected in a London park next year after planning permission was granted for the artwork.
Tarmac axes 550 jobs

24-Dec-2010
Tarmac is planning to axe 550 jobs and close one of its divisions, blaming “tough” market conditions.
Wolves to redevelop Stan Cullis Stand

23-Dec-2010
Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club has been given planning permission for the redevelopment of Molineux.
£2M cathedral scheme at planners

23-Dec-2010
Work to develop the area around Chester Cathedral could start next spring if a planning application for the scheme is approved early in the new year.
NI braced for big winter road bill

23-Dec-2010
Northern Ireland’s road maintenance bill is expected to exceed £10M this winter.
Battersea power station plans approved

23-Dec-2010
The go ahead for the restoration of one of the UK’s most striking buildings has been given by London Mayor Boris Johnson.
Macclesfield football stadium plan gets go-ahead

22-Dec-2010
Planners have given Wilson Bowden the green light to build a new football stadium in Macclesfield.
Wildcats' stadium hopes dented

22-Dec-2010
Wakefield Trinity Wildcats’ planning application for a new stadium on the Newmarket site has been referred to the local government secretary Eric Pickles.
Levy 'will fund renewable schemes'

22-Dec-2010
The government has announced that funds for renewable energy generation schemes in local areas can be taken from the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL).
New research hub for Southampton

22-Dec-2010
The University of Southampton will build a new maritime research institute in collaboration with engineering and technical staff from Lloyd’s Register.
BP spill 'left sea floor undamaged'

20-Dec-2010
Extensive sampling of the Gulf of Mexico seafloor has found oil in quantities too small to collect and in concentrations below harmful levels, except in the area surrounding the BP well, federal scientists say.
Offshore energy conference in held in Scotland

20-Dec-2010
Offshore energy industry leaders have met in Scotland to discuss how to make the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy.
Dozens killed in oil pipeline blast

20-Dec-2010
A massive oil pipeline explosion has laid waste to parts of a central Mexican city, incinerating people, cars, houses and trees as gushing crude oil turned streets into flaming rivers.
Viridor wins approval for energy from waste plant

17-Dec-2010
Viridor has been granted permission to build a £200M energy-from-waste incinerator with combined heat and power technology at Oxwellmains, near Dunbar in Scotland.
Bills to rise to fund power station programme

17-Dec-2010
Energy bills could rise by hundreds of pounds under plans for the construction of a new generation of power plants unveiled by the government.
Call for action over fire risk building

17-Dec-2010
The Government is facing calls to take urgent action to tackle a “crisis of confidence” about fire risks on timber-framed construction sites and improve safety for people living in tall buildings.
Southampton terminal plans unveiled

16-Dec-2010
Plans for a new cruise ship terminal in Britain have been unveiled.
£2.3bn Forth Crossing Bill passed

16-Dec-2010
Plans to build a new £2.3bn road bridge over the Firth of Forth have been approved overwhelmingly by the Scottish Parliament.
Olympians call for 2012 track to remain

16-Dec-2010
Three legends of British athletics have signed an open letter calling for the athletics track to remain at the Olympic Stadium after the 2012 Games are over.
First 2012 Olympics venue is completed

16 December 2010
The Lee Valley White Water Centre, which will host Canoe Slalom events during the London 2012 Games, was completed last week.
Regeneration policies "must change"

15-Dec-2010
Calls have been made for the government to change its policies on regenerating former industrial cities across England following a report that claims the blueprints are not working.
Forth bridge plans set for approval

15-Dec-2010
Plans to build a new £2.3 bn bridge over the Firth of Forth are expected to get final approval from Holyrood today.
Waste infrastructure grants awarded

15-Dec-2010
An investment of £2.9M will be made into the waste infrastructure of London, it has been announced.
China considers emergency traffic measures

15-Dec-2010
China is considering an emergency plan to tackle a traffic jam crisis enveloping the capital Beijing.
Largest Scottish hospital approved

15-Dec-2010
Scotland’s largest-ever hospital project has been approved by the Scottish Government.
£3bn transport fund announced

14-Dec-2010
Transport minister Norman Baker has announced the money each local authority in England would be getting for transport schemes and for road maintenance.
Work begins on Lee Valley Olympic transformation

14-Dec-2010
Diggers have now moved on to the Three Mills Green in east London for the £635,000 project.
Afghanistan gold mine approved

14-Dec-2010
Afghan government officials have approved a multimillion-dollar contract to mine the wealth of gold under the mountains of northern Afghanistan.
GRID Architects' Lewisham plans approved

13-Dec-2010
Plans by GRID Architects have been awarded planning permission for a ‘residential and business quarter’ in Deptford, Lewisham.
Dubai World leadership shaken up

13-Dec-2010
Dubai’s ruler replaced the long-time head of Dubai World with his close aide and uncle today, as the struggling conglomerate battles its multi-billion debt burden.
Biomass plant plan for Manchester canal area

10-Dec-2010
A proposed £70M biomass-fuelled power plant near the Manchester Ship Canal has had its planning application submitted by Peel.
Shard is 'more than a skyscraper'

10-Dec-2010
The developer of Britain’s tallest skyscraper has declared that the structure will be remembered for more than its height.
Tall buildings restricted in Dublin

9-Dec-2010
The construction of tall buildings in Dublin city will be restricted after councillors voted on the final draft of the City Development Plan 2011-2017 that bans new office buildings of more than seven storeys, and residential buildings of more than six storeys.
Panama Canal closed by flooding

9-Dec-2010
Flooding has forced the Panama Canal to be closed for the first time in 21 years, with at least two people being killed by heavy rain in the region.
Scotland helps Maldives 'green' bid

9-Dec-2010
Scotland is helping the Maldives in its bid to become carbon neutral by 2020.
Carillion expects 2010 revenue fall

8-Dec-2010
Carillion has indicated that its total revenue for 2010 is expected to be lower than last year’s figure.
British Gas buys insulation firm

8-Dec-2010
British Gas has agreed a £4M deal to expand its insulation business by acquiring ECL Contracts, a specialist external-wall insulation company.
Dozens killed in Colombian floods

8-Dec-2010
Dozens of people have been killed and thousands have abandoned their homes as floods and mudslides ravage Colombia and Venezuela.
Survey shows lack of BIM awareness

8-Dec-2010
There is a pressing demand for improved awareness and understanding of building information modelling (BIM) across the built environment industry, according to an industry-wide survey.
Venezuelan flood victims seek temporary shelter

7-Dec-2010
Venezuelan soldiers moved into privately-owned hotels to help accommodate some of the thousands of people forced from their homes by flooding and mudslides following weeks of torrential rains.
Galliford Try wins schools contract

7-Dec-2010
Galliford Try has been appointed to the team charged with delivering the £50M Halton Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme.
Scores feared dead in Colombian landslides

7-Dec-2010
More than 100 people are feared dead following a landslide that buried a poor area during Colombia’s heaviest rains in decades.
Colombian landslide buries homes and kills two

6-Dec-2010
A landslide following weeks of drenching rains has buried more than 50 homes in northwestern Colombia, killing at least two people and likely leaving dozens trapped beneath mud and rubble, officials said Sunday.
More staff quit Edinburgh tram project

6-Dec-2010
Transport Initiatives Edinburgh (TIE), the under-pressure group tasked with installing an 18.5km tram line in Edinburgh, has had three more senior personnel quit their job.
Shanghai Tower suggests skyscraper records are moving east

6-Dec-2010
The 121-story Shanghai Tower is more than China’s next record-setting building: It is an economic lifeline for the elite club of skyscraper builders.
Pickles announces planning reform

3-Dec-2010
Communities secretary Eric Pickles has announced plans to grant London Boroughs greater control over major local planning decisions in the future.
Energy minister: UK energy infrastructure "needs rebuilding"

3-Dec-2010
Britain’s electricity infrastructure “essentially” needs rebuilding, Energy minister Charles Hendry has said.
State of emergency in Bosnia after floods

3-Dec-2010
A state of emergency has been declared and residents evacuated after heavy rainfall caused floods in several areas of Bosnia.
Scottish firms form wave energy joint venture

3-Dec-2010
Two Scottish companies have joined forces over a major deal to develop “next generation” wave energy technology.
Crossrail unveils £1bn private finance rolling stock and depot tender

2-Dec-2010
Crossrail yesterday began the procurement process for rolling stock and depot facilities, putting the capital cost at around £1bn.
Tate Britain set for £28.5M makeover

2-Dec-2010
Tate Britain has defied the recession to raise £28.5M for a makeover. The central London gallery, on the site of what was once Europe’s biggest prison, has announced plans to change the way visitors see the gallery and its art.
Ministers hail road's investment boost

2-Dec-2010
The opening of the first dual carriageway running into the heart of County Tyrone is helping overturn decades of under-investment in border areas, it has been claimed.
MPs call for power plant standard

2-Dec-2010
New standards to limit emissions from power stations are needed to ensure the UK cuts carbon from energy production, a committee of MPs has said.
Councils given bigger planning role

1-Dec-2010
Local councils in Northern Ireland are to take on responsibility for planning decisions in their areas under proposals.
UK Coal evacuates mine over gas leak fears

1-Dec-2010
UK Coal evacuated one of the nation’s last remaining deep collieries in north Yorkshire after methane gas seeped into the area and ignited.
Contractors urged to pay back PFI cash

1-Dec-2010
Companies, including Balfour Beatty and Serco, that benefit from Government contracts worth hundreds of billions of pounds under the private finance initiative (PFI), have been to pay some of it back to help protect public services.
High Speed 2 'not thought through properly'

30-Nov-2010
The proposed high-speed train route between Birmingham and London, High Speed 2 (HS2) was not assessed properly and will not benefit the environment or businesses, MPs have been told.
Fourth blast at New Zealand mine

29-Nov-2010
There has been another explosion at the Pike River Coal mine in New Zealand, further delaying efforts to recover the bodies of 29 trapped miners.
Palestinians criticise Israeli rail plans

29-Nov-2010
Palestinians have criticised plans for a new train line linking central Israel to settlements in the West Bank.
Costain warning over AE&E payments

29-Nov-2010
Costain investors are braced for potential losses on the company’s £120M subcontract on the Belvedere energy-from-waste facility in London.
Building industry to fall by 4.5%

29-Nov-2010
The government’s capital budget cuts will ensure construction industry output will fall by 4.5 per cent, according to a report.
Welsh Assembly beats housing target

26-Nov-2010
The Welsh Assembly Government has delivered 6,500 new affordable homes a year ahead of schedule, official statistics have revealed.
Third blast inside Pike River mine

26-Nov-2010
A third blast has erupted inside the New Zealand mine where 29 workers were killed in an earlier explosion.
Plans for post-Games site revealed

26-Nov-2010
The Government has earmarked half a billion pounds for a major post-Games transformation of the London 2012 Olympic Park, it has been revealed.
West Ham relegation 'no barrier to stadium move'

25-Nov-2010
West Ham could still afford to move to the Olympic Stadium if they were relegated from the Premier League, according to their vice chairman Karren Brady.
Pike River recovery 'may take months'

25-Nov-2010
Experts has said it could take weeks or months before the bodies of the victims of New Zealand’s mining disaster were recovered.
Shard becomes Britain's tallest building

24-Nov-2010
One Canada Square has lost its record as the tallest building in Britain to the Shard, currently under construction near London Bridge in Southwark, south east London.
West Ham 'ahead in stadium race'

24-Nov-2010
Sir Keith Mills, the deputy chairman of London 2012 and Tottenham director, has admitted West Ham are in pole position to take over the Olympic Stadium – but only if their bid “stacks up economically”.
Miners presumed dead after second explosion

24-Nov-2010
All 29 miners trapped in a New Zealand mine after an explosion are presumed dead after a second blast occurred, rescuers said.
Protest threatens Irish power line construction

24-Nov-2010
Work on one of Ireland’s most vital energy projects is under threat as protesters plan a picket that could spark massive disruption.
Hammond to face transport committee

24-Nov-2010
Transport secretary Philip Hammond will face a tough grilling from MPs today when he appears before the House of Commons transport committee.
Flood claims increase threefold in a decade

24-Nov-2010
Insurers have seen flood claims triple during the past decade following a rise in severe weather, a trade body has said.
Hope fades for New Zealand miners

23-Nov-2010
New Zealand’s prime minister has admitted it is becoming less and less likely that two Britons and 27 other coal miners missing for four days underground after an explosion will be rescued.
London construction in 20-year low

23-Nov-2010
A survey has revealed that construction in central London is at a 20-year low, with just 250,000m² under development.
MITIE reports 12% jump in profits

22-Nov-2010
Outsourcing specialist MITIE has announced a 12% jump in profits as it steps up efforts to secure more contracts from public sector clients.
Warning on town development designs

22-Nov-2010
Designers may have to go back to the drawing board after Government advisers on architecture warned that many new developments are not suitable for town centres.
Pike River blast sends shockwaves through industry

22-Nov-2010
The Pike River explosion has sent shockwaves through the mining industry as New Zealand boasts stringent safety mechanisms to prevent such a blast.
New Zealand miners 'may not have survived blast'

22-Nov-2010
Police and mine rescue crews in New Zealand have acknowledged for the first time that the 29 miners trapped underground since an explosion on Friday may not have survived.
Ofgem launches wind farm tendering

19-Nov-2010
A £1.9bn competitive tendering process has been launched by Ofgem for the high-powered transmission links needed to plug off-shore windmills in to the nation’s energy supply.
Cameron quizzed on flood defences

19-Nov-2010
David Cameron has been asked to substantiate his claim that the Government has “protected” the flood defence budget.
30 miners missing after New Zealand explosion

19-Nov-2010
Around 30 workers remain unaccounted for after an explosion ripped through a coal mine in New Zealand, police and media reports said.
Highways Agency criticised over M25

19-Nov-2010
A watchdog has revealed that the Highways Agency’s slow response to the widening of the M25 has led to costs soaring by 24%, or £660M.
Cumbrian floods 'cost £276M'

19-Nov-2010
Wrecked homes and businesses caused by the Cumbrian floods left a £276M bill, it was revealed today on the first anniversary of the disaster.
Welsh business calls for road network investment

19-Nov-2010
Wales’s “creaking” road network needs attention, business leaders said in the wake of the draft budget.
Wind farm links tender launched

18-Nov-2010
Companies will be able to compete for the right to own and operate the links to 2.8 GW of offshore wind farms for the next 20 years, Ofgem has announced.
Letters: More robust kerbing could have prevented Oxshott rail crash

18 November 2010
More robust kerbing could have prevented Oxshott rail crash
British Land announces £1.5bn development plans

17-Nov-2010
A £1.5bn London development programme has been announced by British Land.
Swamp gas theory after hotel blast

17-Nov-2010
Investigators in Mexico are attempting to establish if a build-up of gas from a nearby swamp was to blame for a hotel blast that killed seven people.
Work to begin on Washington levee

17-Nov-2010
A new barrier is to be constructed to protect downtown Washington DC and the National Mall from floods in the event of a storm, US Army officials have said.
South-west storms spark heavy flooding

17-Nov-2010
People have been rescued from their homes after heavy rain and gale-force winds led to heavy flooding in Cornwall.
Cutting back on road safety spending criticised

16-Nov-2010
Cutting back on road safety spending is a “false economy”, a report from the IAM (Institute of Advanced Motorists) has said.
Hunt for survivors as 51 die in building collapse

16-Nov-2010
Indian police and emergency workers are racing to rescue survivors after a four-storey apartment building collapsed in a congested neighbourhood of New Delhi, killing at least 51 people and injuring 76 others.
Cholera protesters barricade Haiti's second city

16-Nov-2010
Protesters who hold UN soldiers from Nepal responsible for a deadly outbreak of cholera which has killed nearly 1,000 people have barricaded Haiti’s second-largest city, burned cars and stoned a peacekeeping base.
Toxic clear up of Olympic site cost £12.7M

15-Nov-2010
The government has spent £12.7M cleaning up toxic and radioactive waste on part of the Olympic site, the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) has confirmed.
MSPs warned over renewable energy

15-Nov-2010
A Glasgow energy company boss has warned that unless more power stations are built in Scotland the country will be in danger of seeing “the lights go out”.
Belgian army called in to help with floods

15-Nov-2010
Belgian authorities have called in the army to assist with emergency evacuations after severe flooding killed two people in the south-western Hainot province.
Waterways public open days launched

12-Nov-2010
Work surrounding a multimillion-pound revamp of many of the UK’s locks, bridges and aqueducts will be put on public show, offering a behind-the-scenes look at the country’s canal network, British Waterways has announced.
Bord Gais takes stake in wave firm

11-Nov-2010
Irish energy provider Bord Gais is looking to take advantage of the waves resources off the west coast of Ireland.
BP rushed rig work – presidential inquiry

10-Nov-2010
Oil giant BP too often operated in a rush during the closing days of work on its doomed Gulf of Mexico well, a US presidential inquiry has said.
Wind farm agreed despite objection

10-Nov-2010
Wind farm developer North British Wind Power has been granted approval to commence work at a site in the Scottish Borders, despite a long campaign of opposition and two public inquiries.
Olympic budget may fall by £29M

10-Nov-2010
Buildings and infrastructure costs for the London 2012 Games may go down by £29M to £7.2bn, according to official figures.
Report: No evidence BP sacrificed safety for cost

9-Nov-2010
The presidential commission investigating the BP Gulf oil spill today challenged claims made in Congress that the oil company and others sacrificed safety to cuts cost.
Volcano Merapi death toll passes 150

9-Nov-2010
The death toll from two weeks of eruptions from Indonesia’s most volatile volcano passed 150 on Tuesday.
Polish town erects huge Jesus statue

9-Nov-2010
A 33-metre statue of Jesus has been erected in a small town in Poland and the local mayor claims it now stands taller than the famous one overlooking Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.
Surrey bridge passed safe after Selby disaster

8-Nov-2010
The bridge from which a lorry fell in the Surrey train accident was assessed as safe in the nationwide checks made after the Selby rail disaster nearly 10 years ago.
New deals signed by Benoy in China

8-Nov-2010
Benoy has secured three major contracts in China with a combined worth of around £4M.
Concrete lorry crashes through railway bridge onto train

5-Nov-2010
At least five people have been injured after a concrete mixer lorry fell from a bridge on to a passenger train in Surrey, a Network Rail spokesman has said.
EDF and Waitrose plan biomass store

5-Nov-2010
EDF Energy and Waitrose have announced plans to create the first supermarket in the UK fully powered by biomass fuel.
Thames cable car plans submitted

5-Nov-2010
Planning applications to construct a £25M cable car network over the River Thames for the London 2012 Games have been submitted by Transport for London.
Rail upgrade 'will boost Wales-England relations'

4-Nov-2010
The UK Government’s decision on whether to upgrade South Wales’s railway line to London will be a test of its relationship with Wales, the First Minister has said.
Volcano watched over eruption fear

4-Nov-2010
A volcano in Iceland is being monitored over fears it may erupt, it has emerged.
Dropping stadium fabric wrap sensible, says Lord Coe

3-Nov-2010
Getting rid of the fabric wrap for London’s 80,000-seat Olympic Stadium is a “sensible” cost-cutting measure that will not hurt the athletes, Lord Coe has said.
Scottish firm wins £12M wind farm contract

3-Nov-2010
A Scottish firm was awarded a £12M contract for work on one of the world’s largest wind farms.
Energy sector summit to take place in Aberdeen

3-Nov-2010
A new summit aimed at boosting links between Scotland`s oil and gas industry and the new renewable energy sector is to take place next month, first minister Alex Salmond has announced.
Rosneft starts tests on oil pipeline to China

3-Nov-2010
Russia’s largest oil company, Rosneft, says it has begun trial shipments of crude oil to northeast China via a pipeline that will eventually run 4,000km from East Siberia to the Pacific.
Zaha Hadid to transform Serpentine munitions depot

2-Nov-2010
A former munitions depot is to be transformed into London’s newest contemporary art space by the Serpentine Gallery by Zaha Hadid, it has been announced.
Row over Prince's Foundation move

2-Nov-2010
The Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment has hit out at suggestions that it is ‘inappropriately placed’ to take on the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment’s (CABE) design review duties.
Work begins on fire-ravaged pier

2-Nov-2010
Demolition workers today moved on to a beach before dismantling unsafe sections of a fire-ravaged pier following a suspected arson attack last month.
US judge orders probe into Halliburton cement

1-Nov-2010
A US judge has ordered urgent tests on the cement contractor Halliburton used to seal the BP oil well that blew out catastrophically in the Gulf of Mexico.
BG wins approval for Australian gas plant

1-Nov-2010
Energy firm BG Group has announced it had received final approval to develop a new £9.3bn liquefied natural gas plant in Australia.
Two marine planning areas chosen

29-Oct-2010
Offshore wind farms, fishing and other uses of two areas off the east coast of England will be managed under new comprehensive plans.
Call over port funding distribution

29-Oct-2010
Scottish and Welsh ports should be able to bid for Government funds to upgrade harbours to encourage the rollout of offshore wind farms, ministers have been urged.
Halliburton admits skipping BP cement well test

29-Oct-2010
Contractor Halliburton has admitted that it skipped a crucial test on the final formulation of cement used to seal the BP oil well that blew out in the Gulf of Mexico.
Major Scottish tidal project unveiled

28-Oct-2010
A huge tidal project is set to be developed off the northern coast of Scotland after rights to the site were awarded to a consortium by the Crown Estate.
Green industry warns MPs over funding plan

28-Oct-2010
The £1bn pledged by the government for a new green investment bank will on its own be “too low” to have an impact on efforts to boost the low carbon economy, MPs have been told.
Rescuers battle disaster aftermath

27-Oct-2010
A volcanic eruption and a tsunami has killed scores of people hundreds of miles apart in Indonesia.
Earthquake sparks tsunami warning

26-Oct-2010
A powerful earthquake off western Indonesia triggered a tsunami warning that sent thousands of residents fleeing to high ground.
Warning over flood defence cuts

26-Oct-2010
Cutting flood defence budgets now could cost the country much more in the long-term, the Government has been warned.
Drilling should continue – BP chief

26-Oct-2010
Future oil exploration and production should continue if lessons were learnt from the Gulf of Mexico disaster, the chief executive of BP has said.
REC plans £300M green power plant

25-Oct-2010
RES has unveiled plans to invest £300M to build a new biomass power plant at a Bootle dock in Liverpool.
First commercial spaceport opens

25-Oct-2010
The dream of whisking tourists to space for a few minutes of weightlessness edged closer to reality when the runway at the world’s first commercial spaceport officially opened.
Gas storage projects under threat

25-Oct-2010
Plans to build two gas storage facilities in the North Sea at a cost of £1.5bn could be scrapped, according to reports.
Cracked Tube rail causes more delays

22-Oct-2010
London Underground travellers have suffered fresh delays and disruption because of a cracked rail, continuing a week of “chaos” on the Tube.
Ecuador unveils 'clean' Amazon oil field

22-Oct-2010
A new oil field that has been built in the Amazon jungle will maintain strict environmental standards, Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa has confirmed.
Fourth body found in Ecuador mine

22-Oct-2010
The body of the fourth miner trapped after a cave-in at a gold mine in Ecuador has been recovered.
Flood defence budget slashed by £170M

21-Oct-2010
The government has delivered a widely anticipated blow to the construction industry by cutting more than £170M from budgets for flood defences.
Eon drops out of carbon capture and storage race

20-Oct-2010
Energy giant Eon has announced it is pulling out of the competition to build the UK’s first power station fitted with technology to capture and permanently store carbon emissions.
Call to leave cap until after Belfast runway decision

20-Oct-2010
A decision on scrapping a cap on passenger numbers at Belfast City Airport should wait until a public inquiry on its controversial runway extension is completed, a Stormont committee urged the Environment Minister today.
Post viaduct collapse bridge repair bill revealed

20-Oct-2010
The collapse of a viaduct in the Republic of Ireland led to a repair bill of more than 100,000 for railway bridges in Northern Ireland, it has emerged.
Rebuilding work at Blackfriars to start

20-Oct-2010
A two-month rebuilding project is to begin in November at London’s Blackfriars rail station.
Public calls for road spending to be priority

19-Oct-2010
Roads should be the top priority for government investment in infrastructure, according to a public poll.
Second earthquake hits Christchurch

19-Oct-2010
A magnitude-five earthquake has struck the city of Christchurch in the south of New Zealand, just weeks after a major quake caused considerable damage in the area.
Whole-life method 'can save £12bn'

19-Oct-2010
Around £12bn could be “saved” in the public sector every year without scrapping capital projects, a group of consultants has claimed.
Workman dies in collapsed trench

19-Oct-2010
A post mortem examination is to be carried out on a contractor who died trapped in a trench despite the efforts of emergency services to rescue him.
Philippines hit by super typhoon

18-Oct-2010
Super Typhoon Megi has slammed ashore along the Philippines’ north-eastern coast with ferocious winds of 225kph – the strongest cyclone to hit the country in years.
Government drops Severn tidal barrage plan

18-Oct-2010
The Government has dropped plans to build a 16km barrage across the Severn estuary to generate “green” electricity from tides.
'No more Holyrood money' for Edinburgh tram scheme

18-Oct-2010
There will be no more government cash for the troubled Edinburgh trams project, Scottish finance secretary John Swinney has said.
Hoover Dam bypass bridge completed

15-Oct-2010
A bridge that allows drivers to bypass Hoover Dam’s many security checkpoints and tourists will open after nearly eight years and £151M worth of work.
Swiss tunnel breaks new ground

15-Oct-2010
The Gotthard Base rail tunnel has taken a further step towards completion as the last few inches of rock are dug from under the Swiss Alps.
Tropical Storm Paula rocks Cuba

15-Oct-2010
Havana was left without electricity or cooking gas on Thursday night after Tropical Storm Paula hit the city, turning the streets of Cuba’s capital into shallow rivers.
Last miner brought to Chile surface

14-Oct-2010
Rescuers have pulled the final worker from a mine in Chile to safety after he and 32 others were stuck underground for 69 days.
First men rescued from Chilean mine

13-Oct-2010
Rescuers have begun pulling 33 men out of the collapsed Chilean mine one by one, ending their 69 days trapped 600 metres underground.
Chilean miners to be lifted out today

12-Oct-2010
The ordeal for 33 Chilean miners who have spent two months trapped underground was nearing its end today.
Setback for Edinburgh tram scheme

11-Oct-2010
Plans for Edinburgh’s tram scheme were plunged into uncertainty yet again as its organisers admitted they didn’t know how much it would cost and that the tram route would be shorter than originally planned.
Devasting floods continue in Vietnam

11-Oct-2010
Central Vietnam has continued to be plagued by devastating floods, with the death toll rising to 62.
Cracks 'stable' at burst Hungary reservoir

11-Oct-2010
Officials say that cracks in a burst reservoir in western Hungary, which contains caustic red sludge, are no wider following the recent flooding of local towns.
Chile's trapped miners' rescue imminent

11-Oct-2010
The extraction of Chile’s 33 trapped miners is expected to begin on 13 October after a drilling breakthrough.
Union settles Network Rail dispute

11-Oct-2010
Union leaders have withdrawn the threat of industrial action and agreed to end a long-running dispute involving thousands of Network Rail workers after reaching a deal on jobs and pay.
Danube 'absorbing toxic sludge'

11-Oct-2010
The River Danube was apparently absorbing Hungary’s toxic red sludge spill with little immediate harm, officials have reported.
Violence on increase in Haiti camps

8-Oct-2010
Sexual, domestic and gang violence is rife in more than 70% of Haiti’s refugee camps, campaigners have said.
Royal Haskoning appoints new chairman

8-Oct-2010
Royal Haskoning has appointed Erik Oostwegel as its new chairman.
Brewery to produce renewable gas

8-Oct-2010
Renewable gas from brewery waste will be piped into the National Grid for use in family homes as part of efforts to cut carbon emissions.
Irish construction employers warn of further job losses

7-Oct-2010
The construction industry in Northern Ireland could face job losses of more than 30,000 if cuts to the Assembly’s capital budget were to be approved, the Construction Employers Federation (CEF) has warned.
Toxic sludge reaches the Danube

7-Oct-2010
Toxic sludge released from a Hungarian metals factory reservoir earlier this week reached the Danube today.
Vietnam floods claim more lives

7-Oct-2010
The death toll from flooding in central Vietnam nearly doubled to 48 today as rain continued to punish swathes of Asia.
Pipe plan in Chile miners rescue

7-Oct-2010
Officials battling to rescue the 33 miners trapped underground in Chile for the past two months are planning to insert steel piping that can withstand tons of pressure into the shaft to prevent collapses during the operation.
HCA confirms Ritchie appointment

6-Oct-2010
The Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) has a new chief executive after Pat Ritchie was appointed to the post, chairman Robert Napier has announced.
Aecom reveals Hackney masterplan

6-Oct-2010
Architecture and building engineering company Aecom has revealed its masterplan to transform Hackney Wick over the next 15 years.
Navy joins Indonesian flood rescue efforts

6-Oct-2010
A navy warship has arrived in a remote corner of eastern Indonesia carrying tents and medical supplies after flash floods and mudslides tore through mountainside villages, killing at least 68 people and leaving thousands homeless.
Four dead amid Hungary chemical leak

6-Oct-2010
The Hungarian government has declared a state of emergency in three regions after several towns were engulfed by a flood of toxic sludge from a chemical plant.
Contracts up for grabs at Stansted

6-Oct-2010
Building contractors have been given the opportunity to bid for three-year, multimillion-pound contracts at Stansted Airport.
BSF axe prompts council action

5-Oct-2010
Two councils have launched legal action to fight Education Secretary Michael Gove’s decision to axe Labour’s £55bn school building programme.
Cable to visit London Gateway site

5-Oct-2010
Business Secretary Vince Cable is to visit a deep sea port in Essex that will have the capacity to handle the world’s largest cargo ships, up to 400m long.
Chilean miners 'close to rescue'

5-Oct-2010
The 33 miners trapped under 700,000t of rock in Chile have been told by their country’s president they are “very close” to being rescued.
Boris urges transport investment

5-Oct-2010
London mayor Boris Johnson has warned the Treasury that cuts to the capital’s public transport systems would hurt the UK economy.
Ofgem calls for £32bn energy network revamp

4-Oct-2010
Around £32bn needs to be spent on “rewiring” Britain’s gas and electricity network in the next 10 years, the energy watchdog has said.
Hammond to announce two high-speed branch lines

4-Oct-2010
The Government intends to build two branches to the planned new £33bn high-speed rail network north of Birmingham, transport secretary Philip Hammond will announce today.
BIM 'key to building procurement'

4-Oct-2010
Building Information Modelling (BIM) will become a key part in the procurement of public buildings, according to the chief construction adviser to the Government.
Listed buildings saved from neglect

1-Oct-2010
Buildings designed by some of the world’s top architects have been preserved thanks to a ‘radical’ idea nearly 20 years ago, a heritage body has said.
West Ham submits Olympic ground bid

1-Oct-2010
Premier League footballers have delivered a proposal to 10 Downing Street to put the case for West Ham to make a new home at the Olympic Stadium after the 2012 London Games.
Home-building plans 'discriminate against cities'

1-Oct-2010
A Government plan to encourage councils in England to build new homes will be paid for by slashing funding given to large towns and cities, shadow housing minister John Healey has said.
Master Concrete fined over accident

30-Sep-2010
Hounslow-based Master Concrete has been fined £10,000 after being found guilty of breaching health and safety legislation in relation to a fall which left a worker seriously injured.
Edinburgh docks funding plan backed

30-Sep-2010
Edinburgh City Council’s suggestion that “tax incremental funding” should be used for construction work on the city’s waterfront area has been supported by the Scottish Government.
School-building 'must be restored'

30-Sep-2010
Ed Balls, fresh from his unsuccessful campaign to be Labour party leader, has said the Government must “think again” about its decision to scrap the construction of new schools in the UK.
Building coalition launches Plan B

30-Sep-2010
A coalition of construction industry leaders has launched ‘Plan B’ which has been designed to return the sector to economic growth.
Birmingham growth plan unveiled

30-Sep-2010
Up to 50,000 new jobs could be created as part of a blueprint by Birmingham City Council for the development of the city centre over the next 20 years.
Groups unite to call for green bank expansion

30-Sep-2010
Businesses and environmental groups have united to call for initial funding of up to 6 billion for the promised green investment bank, to boost the economy and create jobs.
Mexican landslide rescue efforts resume

30-Sep-2010
Rescue efforts have resumed for 11 people missing after a huge hillside collapsed on a town in Mexico as a landslide in a neighbouring state killed 16 people.
National flooding emergency exercise planned

30-Sep-2010
The Environment Department has confirmed that one of the biggest emergency exercises ever will take place in England and Wales next year to test responses to severe flooding from rivers, the sea, reservoirs and flash floods.
Russians insist Winter Olympics on schedule

30 September 2010
Under fire organisers of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games in Russia have insisted that preparations are on track.
Site for Wycombe Wanderers stadium

29-Sep-2010
A preferred location has been announced for the construction of a new 20,000-capacity stadium for Wycombe Wanderers FC and rugby team London Wasps.
Tesco wins appeal over new store

29-Sep-2010
Tesco has won an appeal over a proposed new store in Padiham, Lancashire.
Regeneration project given go ahead

29-Sep-2010
Regeneration construction experts St Modwen have had plans for the first phase of their £270M Firepool project in Taunton approved by the council.
No-one dead in Mexico mudslide

29-Sep-2010
Mexican government officials have revealed that 11 people are missing but there are no confirmed deaths after a huge landslide at a rural mountain town.
Ancient archway demolished by van

29-Sep-2010
Architects were assessing the damage to an ancient palace archway today after it was accidentally demolished by a van.
Offshore wind industry 'needs help'

28-Sep-2010
Government cash is needed to help the UK’s “home-grown” offshore wind industry to help reduce costs, according to a research report.
Galliford Try clinches heating deal

28-Sep-2010
Construction firm Galliford Try has been awarded a contract to design, build and maintain the heating provision of the UK’s first large-scale zero-carbon housing scheme.
Cathco in hands of administrators

28-Sep-2010
Cathco Property Group has gone into administration, delaying the construction of a multi-million pound shopping complex in north Wales and putting hundreds of jobs at risk.
Morgan Sindall seals school deal

28-Sep-2010
Morgan Sindall has won a £6.1M contract to build a 3,000 sq m primary school in Merseyside, it has emerged.
CITB ConstructionSkills not warned about privatisation

27-Sep-2010
Training body CITB ConstructionSkills was given no warning that it would be privatised, and the details of its position are still unclear.
Rescue cage sent to pull miners to safety

27-Sep-2010
A special steel cage designed and made by the Chilean Navy to help rescue 33 men trapped for a record seven weeks underground arrived on Saturday at the San Jose mine.
China extends Tibet railway network

27-Sep-2010
Work has started on an extension of the railway network connecting Tibet with the rest of the nation, Chinese state media said.
£15bn needed for safe schools

24-Sep-2010
Around £15bn is needed over the next four years to guarantee every child a school place in a safe environment, research suggests.
Conlon wins £1.7M museum redevelopment

24-Sep-2010
North West firm Conlon Construction has won a £1.7M contract for the redevelopment of the Museum of Lancashire.
BP well leak hit 4.4M barrels

24-Sep-2010
BP’s stricken well in the Gulf of Mexico spilled an estimated 4.4M barrels of oil into the ocean before it was capped, the first objective scientific study of the disaster has concluded.
World's largest wind farm opens

24-Sep-2010
The UK is determined to get out of the “dunce corner” on renewables, energy secretary Chris Huhne has said as he officially opened the world’s largest offshore wind farm off the UK coast.
Mutuals move 'could generate £30bn'

23-Sep-2010
Think-tank Policy Exchange believes housing associations could raise £30bn to build more homes if they were run as mutuals.
Homes-to-rent project 'on track'

23-Sep-2010
A scheme which is expected to generate £130M in investment and will see 1,000 new homes built for rent is nearer fruition, a Government minister is expected to say.
Investment call as world's largest wind farm opens

23-Sep-2010
Environmental campaigners have urged the Government to invest more in renewables, as the world’s largest offshore wind farm was officially opened off the UK coast.
100 rail viaducts checked since bridge collapse

23-Sep-2010
More than 100 railway viaducts have been put through new safety checks since the near catastrophic Malahide bridge collapse last year, transport chiefs have revealed.
Ten councils served schools asbestos notices

22-Sep-2010
Ten councils in England have been served with notices to improve asbestos safety in schools.
NPF calls for efficiency boost

22-Sep-2010
Closer working ties between Planning and Building Control departments would improve effectiveness and efficiency in both services, a trade body has said.
Games chief in Delhi as ceiling collapses

22-Sep-2010
The head of the Commonwealth Games has rushed to New Delhi for emergency talks as a ceiling collapsed in one of the venues.
Redhall buys Mount Engineering for £16.4M

22-Sep-2010
Redhall Group has announced a £16.4M takeover of York-based Mount Engineering.
VT's Chubb joins Grontmij as MD

21-Sep-2010
Grontmij has appointed John Chubb from one time Mouchel suitor VT Group as its new managing director for the UK and Ireland.
£1.5bn Aylesbury development starts

21-Sep-2010
Work was getting under way today to demolish one of Britain’s most well-known council estates.
Builder fined £20,000 over death

21-Sep-2010
A Bury-based building materials manufacturer and its director have been fined a total of £20,000 after a worker was killed by an industrial mixing machine blade.
New borrowing powers for councils

21-Sep-2010
Local councils in England are to be handed powers to borrow millions of pounds to pay for major infrastructure projects, deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has announced in his speech to the Liberal Democrat conference.
Flood of insolvencies predicted in Scottish construction

20-Sep-2010
A building expert has warned of a “dam of insolvencies fit to burst” in the Scottish construction sector.
Leaking BP well finally sealed

20-Sep-2010
A leaking well which spewed millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico has finally been sealed, US officials said.
Borehole drilling raises hopes for Chilean miners

20-Sep-2010
Rescuers drilling into a cavern where 33 Chilean miners are trapped completed a borehole ahead of schedule raising hopes the men could be out earlier than expected.
Mayor hails London retrofitting

20-Sep-2010
London Mayor Boris Johnson is championing large-scale retrofitting schemes in the public and private sector as a key method of boosting the low-carbon economy and providing green jobs.
Thousands flee typhoon in Taiwan

20-Sep-2010
Thousands of residents were evacuated as a powerful typhoon struck Taiwan, flooding the southern part of the island, crippling transport and shutting off power.
£225M Chester Zoo project given go ahead

20-Sep-2010
One of the country’s biggest zoos will be redeveloped after politicians gave the scheme the green light.
£92M Bristol stadium plans hit snag

20-Sep-2010
Plans to build a £92M stadium in Bristol for England’s World Cup bid have been put in doubt after campaigners won a significant victory in their bid to protect the site from development.
Protect infrastructure plans – CBI

20-Sep-2010
Chancellor George Osborne is being urged by industry to ensure vital infrastructure projects were protected in the forthcoming Government spending review.
Gas storage plant gets go-ahead

17-Sep-2010
The Government has given a Lincolnshire coast gas storage plant the go-ahead after a public inquiry.
Balfour wins Irish road contract

17-Sep-2010
Construction firm Balfour Beatty has been chosen as the preferred bidder for a major road scheme in the Republic of Ireland, it has announced.
Hurricane Karl set to make landfall in Mexico

17-Sep-2010
Hurricane Karl strengthened and was expected to gain more power before hitting Mexico’s coast near a port and an oil hub today.
Major UK quake 'long overdue'

17-Sep-2010
A killer earthquake could hit London at any time, claiming untold numbers of lives and causing billions of pounds worth of damage, an expert has warned.
Relief well intersects blown-out BP well

17-Sep-2010
A relief well drilled nearly 2.5 miles under the floor of the Gulf of Mexico has intersected BP’s blown-out well, a prelude to plugging it once and for all, the US government said.
London 2012 stadium pledge 'flawed'

17-Sep-2010
Pledges to transform the London 2012 Olympic Stadium into a 25,000 seater are “flawed” and efforts to secure the venue’s long-term use have been hampered, it is claimed.
Met wants protected land as Games police base

17-Sep-2010
The Government wants to change a 132-year-old law to allow the construction of a temporary police headquarters on protected land near the Olympic Games site in London.
Virtual planning guide dropped

16-Sep-2010
A £14,000 virtual guide to planning rules has been scrapped after a lack of interest from the public, it emerged today.
Rise in NI building planning fees

16-Sep-2010
Northern Ireland’s Planning Service has revealed planning fees will increase by nearly three per cent next month.
BP well 'to be sealed by Sunday'

16-Sep-2010
The US government’s incident commander for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill has said that BP’s blown-out well is expected to be permanently sealed and declared dead by Sunday, nearly five months after a rig explosion set off the disaster.
'Serious risk' of more severe weather

16-Sep-2010
The UK faces the “serious risk” of an increase in severe weather conditions in the future, the government has warned.
Design 'can affect brain functions'

16-Sep-2010
New research into how the environment affects brain functions could have major implications for the design of public spaces and buildings.
Kier reports 11% rise in profits

16-Sep-2010
Construction giant Kier has said it is looking forward to a healthy future after ending its latest financial year will an increase in pre-tax profits of 11%.
Salmond hails £3bn renewable deal

14-Sep-2010
First Minister Alex Salmond has hailed a £3bn investment package in the economy by energy giant Iberdrola as “immensely important”.
Locals "should have say over London sewer"

14-Sep-2010
Local authorities in London say residents of the city should have a say in decisions made about a new “super sewer” system in the capital, as they will be the ones paying for it.
Huge clear up remains months after Haiti quake

13-Sep-2010
Rubble is everywhere in the capital: cracked slabs, broken-up cinder blocks, half-destroyed buildings that still spill bricks and pulverised concrete on the sidewalks.
Broken drill bit hampers Chile mine rescue

13-Sep-2010
Chile’s mining minister has acknowledged that a problem has stalled the most advanced of three tunnels being drilled to 33 miners trapped underground and said officials might have to restart the bore hole in another location.
100 firefighters fight construction site blaze

13-Sep-2010
More than 100 firefighters battled a blaze which broke out at a construction site on Friday.
Ocon wins Liverpool student housing contract

10-Sep-2010
Ocon Construction has won a £5M contract to build a five storey student accommodation block in Liverpool.
Solar panels could offer savings for community buildings

10-Sep-2010
Installing solar panels on community buildings during or after the construction process could provide a £100M a year boost, according to a new report.
Carillion unveils The Square plans

10-Sep-2010
Developer Carillion has unveiled plans for third phase of a major mixed-use scheme in Sheffield.
Morgan Sindall deal saves 2,500 Connaught jobs

10-Sep-2010
Around 2,500 jobs at collapsed firm Connaught have been rescued after administrators struck a deal to sell the bulk of its social housing division.
Wingas get go-ahead for gas storage

9-Sep-2010
The Government has given the go-ahead for an underground gas storage facility in Lincolnshire which will increase the UK’s overall storage capacity by 15%.
Birmingham council plans generating policy

9-Sep-2010
Birmingham City Council has announced a plan to investigate ways of generating electricity to sell to residents as well as to the National Grid, signalling a possible expansion of infrastructure which could benefit the construction industry.
Government backs Thames Water's sewage tunnel

8-Sep-2010
The proposed Thames Tunnel to reduce the amount of raw sewage being pumped into the River Thames in London has been backed by the Government.
West Wales road receives funding

8-Sep-2010
A significant transport route in Neath Port Talbot has moved a step closer to completion after ministers approved a multi-million pound investment to finish the second phase of the project.
Two killed in Spanish rail crash

7-Sep-2010
A Spanish passenger train collided with a dump truck working on a future bullet train link to Portugal yesterday, killing two people and leaving 13 injured.
Gulf coast and Texas storm shelters 'need to be used'

7-Sep-2010
People living around the western Gulf coast in Mexico and the US state of Texas have been urged to move to storm shelters as another major hurricane approaches.
Obama launches £33bn transport stimulus package

7-Sep-2010
US President Obama has proposed a new transport plan that would see $50bn (£33bn) spent rebuilding roads, railways and airport runways.
Volcano shoots ash three miles high

7-Sep-2010
An Indonesian volcano has shown no sign of returning to sleep after erupting once again, shooting black ash 3km high.
North Korea in plea for flood relief aid

7-Sep-2010
North Korea has requested a shipment of rice, cement and heavy equipment days after South Korea offered relief aid to its communist neighbour to help it recover from recent flooding, the Unification Ministry said.
Construction firm fined £13,000 over electric blast

6-Sep-2010
Building firm Graeme W Cheyne has been hit with a bill for £13,000 over an explosion set a joiner’s boiler suit on fire.
Construction orders fell 14% between April and June

6-Sep-2010
Britain’s construction industry orders suffered a dramatic 14% fall between April and June, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has said.
Severn barrage plan 'to be dropped'

6-Sep-2010
The Government is about to reject a plan for a huge tidal energy construction project in the Severn Estuary, according to The Observer newspaper.
Deepwater Horizon well 'no longer a threat'

6-Sep-2010
The ruptured well which pumped almost 5M barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico has been secured and no longer constitutes a threat, it has been confirmed.
New Zealand quake 'opened up new fault line'

6-Sep-2010
New Zealand’s powerful earthquake that smashed buildings, cracked roads and twisted railway lines around Christchurch ripped a new 3.4m wide fault line in the earth’s surface, a geologist has said.
Torrential rain causes fatal Guatemalan mudslides

6-Sep-2010
Torrential rains from a tropical depression have caused mudslides that have killed at least 38 people in Guatemala - most of them in separate disasters along the same road.
No spill after oil platform blast

3-Sep-2010
Residents living near to the coast of the Gulf of Mexico got a gut-wrenching feeling of deja vu when news broke of an explosion at an oil platform.
Xstrata signs £2.7bn Peru copper mine deal

3-Sep-2010
Peru’s government and Anglo-Swiss miner Xstrata signed a deal Thursday under which the company will spend £2.7bn to develop the Las Bambas copper mine, in what President Alan Garcia called the “contract of the century.”
Russia to build new space centre

3-Sep-2010
Russia is looking to the Far East to realise its space programme ambitions, with manned missions planned to launch from a new centre in 2018, according to the prime minister.
Mine rescue effort hit by delays

3-Sep-2010
The rescue effort to save the 33 trapped miners in Chile was delayed on Thursday when drilling had to be halted for several hours because of geological faults.
JCB donates equipment to Pakistan

2-Sep-2010
Construction firm JCB has announced it is to donate equipment to help in reconstruction projects following the devastating floods that have caused havoc across much of Pakistan.
Dozens missing after Chinese landslide

2-Sep-2010
Rescuers are searching for 44 missing people after a landslide hit a village in southern China and killed at least four.
Chilean president predicts Christmas return for trapped miners

2-Sep-2010
Chilean President Sebastian Pinera said Wednesday he hopes 33 miners trapped nearly a half-mile underground will be home by Christmas.
WYG announces EU contract extension

1-Sep-2010
Construction consultancy firm WYG has signed a £12 million agreement to oversee public utility works across the Balkans.
US Grand Prix £142M track plans unveiled

1-Sep-2010
The promoter for the revived US Grand Prix promised a fast track with sight lines that will let spectators watch most of the race from their seats.
Balls calls for £6bn building plan

1-Sep-2010
Labour leadership contender Ed Balls has called for an extra £6bn to be invested to build an additional 100,000 affordable homes in a major new programme of house-building.
Mine rescue dig an "unprecedented challenge"

1-Sep-2010
The drilling now underway to save 33 men trapped deep in a Chilean mine is an unprecedented challenge, according to experts.
Waves disrupt oil spill recovery work

1-Sep-2010
Work to remove the 300-ton piece of equipment that failed to stop the massive BP oil spill could be delayed until the weekend or longer because of rough seas.
Pakistani reconstruction 'must begin immediately'

31-Aug-2010
Relief efforts to help millions of people caught up in Pakistan’s flood crisis are being stepped up amid calls for immediate reconstruction work to begin.
Improvised clay levees hold Pakistan flood water back

31-Aug-2010
Thousands of people have streamed back to the historic southern city of Thatta where new levees hastily built from clay and stone held back floodwaters that have inundated much of Pakistan.
Drilling begins on escape route for miners

31-Aug-2010
A huge drill began digging a planned escape route today as 33 men stuck half 800m underground in Chile became the longest-trapped miners in recent history.
Plea to rethink Serengeti highway

27-Aug-2010
The Tanzanian government has been urged to rethink plans to build a road through the Serengeti that could potentially disrupt one of the world’s great animal migrations.
Engineers drain Mont Blanc lake

27-Aug-2010
Engineers are draining an immense lake that has built up under a glacier on Mont Blanc hoping to prevent a repeat of a flood that killed 175 people more than 100 years ago.
BP VP grilled over safety strategy

27-Aug-2010
Frustrated Gulf oil spill investigators in the US lashed out at BP over its refusal to explain who was in charge of safety at the DeepwaterHorizon rig.
Egypt's first nuclear power station announced

26-Aug-2010
Egypt’s first nuclear power plant is to be built on the Mediterranean coast, ending a year of controversy over its possible location.
Boom in solar panel installation

26-Aug-2010
Latest figures have shown that more solar panels have been installed this month than ever before as record numbers of homeowners in the UK take advantage of the Government’s renewable energy scheme.
Mersey Gateway bridge backers make spending review submission

26-Aug-2010
Halton Borough Council has laid out proposals to fund its new bridge over the River Mersey to link Runcorn and Widnes in a bid to win Government backing.
More Pakistani towns threatened as embankment is breached

26-Aug-2010
Pakistani officials have urged anyone left in three southern towns to evacuate immediately as water broke through an embankment, endangering areas previously untouched by the country’s flooding disaster.
Chilean miners approach subterranean record

26-Aug-2010
In less than a week the 33 miners trapped under Chile’s Atacama Desert will have been stuck underground longer than any others in memory.
Empire State owner loses bid to stop new skyscraper neighbour

26-Aug-2010
The Empire State Building’s owner lost his bid to stop a new skyscraper from rising in the neighbourhood when the New York City Council approved zoning and land use changes yesterday that pave the way for the 1,190ft tower.
Three Gorges Dam shipping stopped over flood fears

25-Aug-2010
Authorities have halted shipping through China’s massive Three Gorges Dam on the upper reaches of the Yangtze river because the dam will experience another flood peak Tuesday.
BP 'ignored contractor's cementing concerns'

25-Aug-2010
BP ignored the concerns of its contractor over the cementing of the Deepwater Horizon well shortly before it ruptured, a US hearing has been told.
Timber-built social homes "blaze risk"

25-Aug-2010
Houses built with a central timber frame are a fire disaster waiting to happen, experts have warned.
Chinese road expansion sparks 100km jam

25-Aug-2010
China has just been declared the world’s second biggest economy, and now it has a traffic jam to match.
Wind farm is planned next to Drax power station

24-Aug-2010
A new wind farm development is in the pipeline for Yorkshire, near the site of western Europe’s biggest coal-fired power station.
Empire State Building owner tries to block rival tower

24-Aug-2010
The owner of the Empire State Building said the height of a proposed tower near the skyscraper would damage the skyline of New York City.
Zardari: Pakistan flood damage will take at least three years to repair

24-Aug-2010
Pakistan’s president said it will take at least three years to recover from the floods that are battering the country.
Clegg to meet 2018 World Cup inspection team

23-Aug-2010
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg will emphasise the Government’s commitment to England’s 2018 World Cup bid when he meets with a six-man FIFA inspection team today.
Indian goverment paves way for foreign investment in new nuclear

23-Aug-2010
India’s Cabinet has approved a nuclear liability bill, seen as a crucial step for bringing foreign companies into its potentially vast nuclear energy market.
Manchester airport's Airbus A380 extension approved

23-Aug-2010
International air authorities have approved expansion work at Manchester Airport which will see the world’s biggest airliner become a regular feature over north west England airspace.
Pakistani authorities reinforce river defences

23-Aug-2010
Authorities piled stones and sandbags to strengthen embankments protecting a city from rising waters in Pakistan today as the floods moved slowly south after leaving thousands of square kilometres of destruction in their wake.
Rainfall causes Yalu river to burst its banks

23-Aug-2010
Flooding has killed four people and forced the evacuation of 94,000 in the northern Chinese port city of Dandong after heavy rains caused the Yalu river to breach its banks, state media said.
Green Deal home insulation plan launched

20-Aug-2010
A so-called Green Deal has been announced by the government to lend householders and companies cash to insulate their buildings.
Final plugging of BP well 'next month'

20-Aug-2010
The final plugging of BP’s blown-out Gulf of Mexico oil well will begin next month, the US government has said.
High Speed 2 rail link compensation scheme launched

20-Aug-2010
A compensation scheme for householders affected by the planned High Speed 2 rail link has been launched today.
Call to maintain transport infrastructure spending

20-Aug-2010
The Government should give more priority to maintaining existing transport infrastructure than building new capacity, a survey of transport managers and experts revealed today.
Animal city plan for Southern Sudan

19-Aug-2010
Major towns and cities in Southern Sudan will be reshaped into animals and fruit under ambitious plans announced by the government.
Pakistani floods 'won't recede for two weeks'

19-Aug-2010
The devastating Pakistan floods are unlikely to recede fully for almost a fortnight, the country’s top forecaster has said.
Overhead electricity interconnector investigated

19-Aug-2010
A public inquiry is to be held into controversial plans for an overhead electricity interconnector across the Irish border, it was announced today.
Scottish company deepwater drill off Greenland

18-Aug-2010
Greenland has given permission to a Scottish oil and gas company to drill two exploration wells off the ice-capped island’s west coast.
China landslide kills 67

18-Aug-2010
A landslide swept through a mountain town in southeastern China after days of heavy rains on Wednesday, leaving at least 67 people missing and cutting off access to the area.
Go-ahead for new Cornish power plant

18-Aug-2010
Solar module manufacturer Solon SE is to build a 1.3MWp solar power plant in Cornwall, it has announced.
Plans unveiled for Roosevelt University tower

18-Aug-2010
A 32-storey glass tower is to be built at the Roosevelt University in Chicago.
Suffolk rail crossing crash injures 21

18-Aug-2010
Engineers are trying to repair damaged tracks after a train collided with a sewage tanker on an unmanned rail crossing.
Pakistan flood response pitiful - Clegg

17-Aug-2010
The international response to the Pakistan floods has been “absolutely pitiful”, deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has said.
Energy firm warns of impending skills crisis

16-Aug-2010
A leading energy firm has voiced concern about the number of students planning a career in the industry after new research showed that most youngsters were looking elsewhere for jobs.
£200M waste incinerator planned for Redcar

16-Aug-2010
Sembcorp and Sita UK are seeking permission for the construction of a £200M waste incinerator in the Teesside town of Redcar.
Aberdeen bid for new 21,000 capacity stadium

16-Aug-2010
Aberdeen Football Club (AFC) has lodged a planning application for a new stadium with the city council.
Corus plant revived to supply wind farms

16-Aug-2010
Steel giant Corus, which made 1,600 workers in Redcar redundant in February, has announced it is creating a business at the Teesside site to supply offshore wind farms.
UN chief: Pakistan floods are worst seen

16-Aug-2010
UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon today said the flooding in Pakistan is the worst disaster he has ever seen as he urged foreign donors to speed up assistance to the 20M people affected.
NHS struggles with PFI repayments

13-Aug-2010
Hospitals built through the controversial private finance initiative (PFI) have left the NHS with a staggering £65bn bill, it has been revealed.
Nuclear should be expanded, according to academics

13-Aug-2010
Nuclear power should be allowed a global renaissance, which could come complete with reactors that have replaceable parts as well as portable and ship-borne reactors, according to UK researchers.
Further downpours threaten more Chinese landslides

13-Aug-2010
A relentless downpour is threatening to trigger more landslides and made rescue work nearly impossible in the remote north western China region where hundreds died in massive slides triggered by weekend flooding.
Largest ever tidal turbine unveiled in Scotland

13-Aug-2010
A renewable energy company has unveiled what it says is the largest and most powerful tidal turbine ever built.
China begins biggest relocation to make way for water scheme

12-Aug-2010
China has launched its biggest relocation programme since the Three Gorges Dam, with 330,000 residents set to be moved to new homes to make way for a water project that will serve thirsty Beijing.
Boroughs to control housing budgets

12-Aug-2010
London boroughs will determine how their housing budgets are spent under radical proposals put forward by the city’s mayor Boris Johnson and the London Councils think-tank.
£8M Corus steelworks investment set for Scotland

12-Aug-2010
Former first minister Jack McConnell has welcomed an £8M steelworks investment in an area steeped in “proud history” in the industry.
Football stadium plans scaled down

11-Aug-2010
St Modwen has redrawn its plans for the new stadium for Worcester City Football Club.
STG wins Swansea Station contract

11-Aug-2010
The contract to transform Swansea High Street Station has been awarded to Strategic Team Group (STG).
Jubilee Line 'unlikely to be finished this year'

11-Aug-2010
The much-delayed upgrade of a busy Tube line is unlikely to be completed this year, leading to further service disruption, it has been announced.
Runway plans delayed by noise row

11-Aug-2010
The public inquiry into plans to extend the runway at George Best Belfast City Airport is set to be pushed back due to a row over noise pollution.
BDP to redesign Manchester's Victoria station

10-Aug-2010
Network Rail has appointed BDP as chief architects for the refurbishment of Manchester’s Victoria railway station.
Asian rescue teams battle massive flooding

10-Aug-2010
Rescuers in three countries across Asia struggled to reach survivors from massive flooding that afflicted millions of people, as the death toll climbed in a remote Chinese town where hundreds died and more than 1,100 were missing from landslides.
CABE calls for greater scrutiny of Olympic Orbit tower

9-Aug-2010
Plans to build a 115m tall observation tower near the Olympic Park in Stratford should be subjected to heightened inquiry before the project is given the go-ahead, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) has said.
Canadian homes evacuated over landslide fears

9-Aug-2010
About 2,000 people who were evacuated from their homes in western Canada after a landslide triggered fears of a flood were allowed to return home from Saturday.
BP says cement well seal has hardened

9-Aug-2010
BP has said the cement sealing the wrecked oil well in the Gulf of Mexico had hardened as crews prepared for the final phase of drilling a relief well to end to one of America’s worst oil spills.
Kashmir hit by fatal flash floods

9-Aug-2010
Rescuers are digging through crushed homes and piles of mud as they search for 400 people still missing after flash floods left 132 people dead in Indian-controlled Kashmir.
Polluted shipyard to get housing

6-Aug-2010
San Francisco’s largest section of undeveloped land may become home to thousands of people.
Firms in court over rush hour chaos

6-Aug-2010
It was “a miracle” no-one was killed or seriously injured when a 44T machine crashed on to a busy road during rush hour, a court has been told during the prosecution of two construction firms.
Planning polices to be reviewed

6-Aug-2010
Two separate inquiries will take place in Parliament to look at the impact of the Government’s new-look planning policies, it has been revealed.
Kashmiri flash flooding kills 50

6-Aug-2010
A sudden overnight downpour and flash floods killed at least 50 people and injured 160 in the remote and mountainous Ladakh region of Indian Kashmir, police and the army said today.
Grant awarded to safeguard Grassington Moor mine

5-Aug-2010
A grant of £50,000 has been pledged to help safeguard one of the country’s most important lead mining ruins, English Heritage said today.
Call for Lough Erne water management review

5-Aug-2010
A major review of how water levels are managed in Lough Erne should be undertaken in a bid to prevent a repeat of last year’s flood in Co Fermanagh, a report has found.wa
Drilling mud plugs BP oil leak

5-Aug-2010
A crush of mud finally plugged BP’s blown-out well, three months after the offshore drilling rig explosion that unleashed a gush of oil and a summer of misery along the Gulf Coast.
Shops hub 'needs flood defences'

5-Aug-2010
Flood defences need to be built around a shopping area in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, to protect it from the nearby Lough Erne’s rising waters, according to a Government report.
Council passes Wirral Waters plans

4-Aug-2010
The largest planning application ever submitted in the UK, which could take 30 years to construct, is a step closer to being released after Wirral Council passed the proposal.
Design-review process 'beneficial'

4-Aug-2010
Reviewing the design of a project as part of the planning system brings benefits, especially if its done is early on in the process, according to the findings of a report.
Manchester Metropolitan to go ahead with design centre

4-Aug-2010
Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) has put out a tender document seeking contractors to carry out construction of a £25M art and design studio.
Pakistani floods claim more lives

4-Aug-2010
Floodwaters ravaged hundreds of villages in Pakistan’s heartland today, killing dozens more people and destroying thousands of homes.
BP in new bid to seal leaking well

4-Aug-2010
BP engineers have begun pumping heavy drilling mud into the Deepwater Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico in the latest bid to seal off the leak which has created an environmental disaster along the US coast.
Bids wanted for £25M university contract

3-Aug-2010
A £25M construction and refurbishment contract has been put up for grabs by Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU).
Cholera fear as dam warning issued

3-Aug-2010
Pakistan issued new flood warnings today as more rains fell and rising water levels threatened to overwhelm one of the country’s biggest dams.
UK's worth falls by £94bn

3-Aug-2010
Despite being one of the the country’s most valuable assets, civil engineering works posted a £41bn loss as the worth of the UK fell by 1.4%, figures have revealed.
BP mulls static lines to stem leak

3-Aug-2010
Lines running from a ship to the blown-out well a mile below the surface could be the way to stem the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, BP chiefs have said.
BP to start "static kill" in Gulf

2-Aug-2010
A team of engineers at battered oil giant BP is planning to launch an operation designed to end the Gulf of Mexico oil spill for good.
Flood waters causing chaos in China

2-Aug-2010
A bridge that collapsed in central China as a result of the country’s worst flooding in decades has left 51 people dead, it has been reported.
Morgan Sindall wins £1.1M rail deal

2-Aug-2010
A £1.1M contract from London Underground to carry out works as part of Crossrail’s enabling work at Whitechapel has been won by Midland construction and infrastructure firm Morgan Sindall.
ORR considering criminal Potters Bar charges

2-Aug-2010
Rail regulators said they were considering criminal proceedings after the Potters Bar rail crash jury singled out failures in inspection and/or maintenance of the points.
Aid efforts stepped up after Pakistani floods

2-Aug-2010
Aid efforts to help the hundreds of thousands of people left homeless last week following Pakistan’s worst floods in 40 years have gathered pace as aid agencies warned of an impending catastrophe.
Points failure caused Potters Bar crash

30-Jul-2010
Seven people died in the 2002 Potters Bar rail crash because an unsafe set of points failed, an inquest jury decided last week.
North Sea oil platforms to be inspected

30-Jul-2010
More than 100 oil rigs and platforms in the North Sea will soon be safety-checked, under a new Health and Safety Executive programme.
Dam collapses amid monsoon floods

30-Jul-2010
A newly-constructed dam collapsed during three days of flooding in Pakistan which left more than two hundred people dead, it has emerged.
High Court quashes turbine permission

29-Jul-2010
A decision to grant planning permission to build a wind turbine near a man’s home has been quashed by the High Court.
Call for councils to back infrastructure projects

29-Jul-2010
Local authorities should step in to fill the funding gap in public building projects left by the Government’s austerity drive, a think-tank report said today.
Connecting cable on its way to hub

28-Jul-2010
A renewable energy research project 16km off the south coast of Britain is due an important delivery: a 25km cable which will connect the Wave Hub converter to the National Grid.
Record water levels test Three Gorges Dam

28-Jul-2010
Record-high water levels are putting the capacity of China’s massive Three Gorges Dam to the test after heavy rains raged on across the country, compounding flooding problems that already left more than 1,200 people dead or missing.
Ministers ignored school list errors

28-Jul-2010
Ministers ignored officials’ advice not to publish an error-strewn list of scrapped school building projects before it could be double-checked, a quango boss has suggested.
Construction sector enjoys growth

27-Jul-2010
The construction sector enjoyed its fastest quarterly output rise in 37 years, official figures have revealed.
JCB profits increase despite crash

27-Jul-2010
Building industry supplier JCB, the third largest in the world, still managed to turn a profit last year despite the unprecedented global recession in construction equipment trade.
Bids invited for £2.5bn framework

27-Jul-2010
Firms have been invited to bid for a public sector projects framework covering up to £2.5bn of construction work across the South East.
Demolition begins on Get Carter car park

27-Jul-2010
Demolition work has begun at the Gateshead multi-storey car park which appeared in the iconic film Get Carter.
Ireland launches £32.5bn infrastructure fund

26-Jul-2010
More than €39bn (£32.5bn) is to be spent by the Irish Government on capital works over the next six years, the Taoiseach has announced.
Huhne backs wind energy production

26-Jul-2010
Energy Secretary Chris Huhne has paved the way for a controversial increase in wind turbines to prevent the UK suffering a power crisis.
Local energy firms set to plug turbines into UK energy supply

26-Jul-2010
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar Council in the Western Isles has granted permission to several community-owned firms to connect their wind turbines to the main UK energy supply.
Potters Bar summing up to begin

26-Jul-2010
A judge is expected to start summing up at the inquest of seven people killed in the Potters Bar train crash.
Man cleared over crane collapse

23-Jul-2010
A rigging contractor and his company have been cleared of manslaughter after a crane collapsed in a New York building site, killing seven people.
UK to develop St Helena airport

23-Jul-2010
The government is to spend tens of millions of pounds building an airport on the tiny island of St Helena, it has been revealed.
High-speed route focused on communities, says Hammond

23-Jul-2010
The route of the proposed high-speed rail project will be decided with “maximum sensitivity” to communities along the line, transport secretary Philip Hammond has said.
Tropical storm forces gulf clean up fleet to port

23-Jul-2010
BP engineers said they would leave the leaky cap fixed to its crippled Gulf of Mexico well head closed as key ships stationed over the site were ordered to evacuate today as Tropical Storm Bonnie loomed.
Lafarge to transform quarry site

23-Jul-2010
The UK’s longest zip line and an Olympic standard BMX bike track are set to transform a derelict quarry in Co Antrim into a paradise for adrenaline junkies by developer Lafarge Cement UK .
School planned for former Navy site

22-Jul-2010
North Yorkshire County Council is to build a residential school for young people with special educational needs on a former Royal Navy training site.
City's regeneration body wound up

22-Jul-2010
Construction projects could be at risk as funding cuts force the winding up of the body responsible for regenerating Wolverhampton.
Libeskind to design museum academy

22-Jul-2010
The Jewish Museum in Berlin is to get an extension designed by Daniel Libeskind, the original architect, it has been confirmed.
Typhoon threatens more chaos in China

22-Jul-2010
Typhoon Chanthu sent debris flying through the air in southern China today, bringing rain that could aggravate the country’s worst floods in a decade.
Oil drilling inquiry after BP blast

22-Jul-2010
An inquiry will re-consider the risks of deepwater drilling in the west of Shetland, in the wake of the oil spill on the Gulf of Mexico.
Multiplex pays £63M over Wembley

22-Jul-2010
Building giant Multiplex has agreed to a 110M Australian dollar (£63M) settlement in a class-action lawsuit from investors that claimed the company failed to disclose cost overruns in the rebuilding of London’s Wembley Stadium and other projects.
BP oil leak could be plugged within two weeks

21-Jul-2010
The BP oil leak could be permanently plugged within a fortnight, US experts said today.
Sky submits plan for incinerator

21-Jul-2010
A controversial plan to build a waste incinerator in Monton, Salford, has been submitted by development firm Sky Properties.
1,000 feared dead in Chinese floods

21-Jul-2010
More than 1,000 people have died or disappeared in severe flooding in China so far this year, and the heaviest rains are still to come, a senior official has warned.
Ireland plans new water facility

21-Jul-2010
Greater Dublin’s water supplies could be boosted by a new reservoir and eco-friendly water park on the site of a former cutaway bog, it has emerged.
Rail work on hold during Olympics

21-Jul-2010
Olympic rail and Tube routes will be free from engineering work during the London 2012 Games to allow spectators to attend events without facing closures or disruption.
PM defends Big Society plans

20-Jul-2010
Local communities will find themselves at the heart of public projects under new plans to relinquish state control, prime minister David Cameron has said.
Olympic cuts "won't affect transport"

20-Jul-2010
Any further reduction to the budget for the London Olympics will not affect the planned improvements to the capital’s transport network, the government has vowed.
Oil and gas leaking from BP well

20-Jul-2010
BP’s broken well was leaking oil and gas again today for the first time since the company capped it last week.
Trams chief urges political courage

20-Jul-2010
A lack of “political courage” could prevent large-scale infrastructure projects going ahead in the future in Scotland, a leading project manager has said.
BP ordered to provide cap reopening plan

19-Jul-2010
The US government ordered BP to provide a plan for reopening its capped well in the Gulf of Mexico after engineers found seepage and possible methane gas near the leak site.
St Helens name stadium contractor

19-Jul-2010
Barr Construction has been chosen to build an 18,000-capacity stadium for a Merseyside rugby league club by the end of the Super League’s next season.
London fire chief criticises timber frames

16-Jul-2010
The growing use of timber-frame construction in high rise buildings has been criticised by the chairman of the London Fire Authority.
Toronto airport tunnel to go ahead

16-Jul-2010
Toronto’s port authority has announced plans for a C$45 million (£28M) underwater pedestrian tunnel connecting the city’s island airport to the downtown area.
Crossrail 'offers value for money', says Villiers

16-Jul-2010
Transport minister Theresa Villiers said the £15.9bn Crossrail project will generate “high value for money” after it emerged the scheme has already received almost £800M of public money.
Peel to build £70M energy plant

15-Jul-2010
A £70M renewable energy plant could soon be built next to Barton Bridge in Trafford by Peel Energy, it has been revealed.
Drought shuts Leeds-Liverpool Canal

15-Jul-2010
Drought conditions are forcing British Waterways to shut almost half of the 203km Leeds and Liverpool Canal
BP begins attempt to stop leak

15-Jul-2010
BP allayed last-minute government fears of making the disaster worse and started trying to slowly choke off the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, in the hope of finally stopping the leak.
Boom time for Turkish contractors

14-Jul-2010
Turkish construction groups are enjoying rapid growth as the government has stepped up its efforts to become a regional power broker in the Middle East and former Soviet Union.
Call for local Olympic workers

14-Jul-2010
Labour leadership contender Diane Abbot has called on the Government to do more to ensure young people from London are given the opportunity to work on Olympic building projects.
Queen invites Chelsea Barracks ruler to make state visit

14-Jul-2010
The Middle East ruler who was lobbied by the Prince of Wales to change development plans for the Chelsea Barracks site has been invited by the Queen to make a state visit to Britain.
Cancelled schools plan cost £160M

14-Jul-2010
The cost to councils of the Government cancelling school rebuilding projects has been placed at £160M, it has been disclosed.
BP hit snag in latest well cap bid

14-Jul-2010
A pivotal moment in the Gulf oil crisis hit an unexpected snag when officials announced they needed more time before they could begin choking off the geyser of crude at the bottom of the sea.
Typhoon floods kills nine in Philippines

14-Jul-2010
The first typhoon to lash the Philippines this year has killed at least nine people and left 10 others missing after flooding streets in the capital and toppling power lines.
Race to drain reservoirs after Chinese earthquake

14-Jul-2010
Work crews raced to drain fast-rising reservoirs on opposite sides of China today, following torrential rains that triggered deadly landslides in several mountain hamlets.
Budget to prolong recession for construction industry

13-Jul-2010
Construction firms could feel the fallout of the recession for another three years thanks to the coalition Government’s austerity budget, leading industry figures have said.
BP robots attach larger cap to oil well

13-Jul-2010
BP robots have attached a new, tighter-fitting cap on top of the gushing Gulf of Mexico oil leak, raising hopes that the flow of crude polluting the water can be stopped for the first time in nearly three months.
Eco-towns scheme funding cut

13-Jul-2010
Funding for the eco-towns programme has been cut by 50%, housing minister Grant Shapps has told councils.
Religions 'should use solar power'

12-Jul-2010
Solar panels on religious buildings could raise up to £34M a year in tariffs and savings, British Gas has claimed.
BP happy with latest cap attempt progress

12-Jul-2010
BP has said it was making progress on what could prove its most effective effort yet to contain the Gulf of Mexico oil leak, but warned that the verdict could be several days away.
Gove to face Commons again over schools

12-Jul-2010
Education Secretary Michael Gove will come up against rising anger in the Commons today about his decision to axe Labour’s £55bn school building programme.
Kier buoyed by market upturn

12-Jul-2010
Contractor Kier has flagged a revival in the commercial building market as it reported an increase in annual profits at the top end of market hopes.
Edgbaston to undergo £30M refurb

9-Jul-2010
A £30M transformation of Warwickshire County Cricket Club’s Edgbaston ground will see the construction of a new stand to increase capacity to 25,000.
Key deal puts £438M in Olympics pot

9-Jul-2010
A long-awaited deal brokered by the former government and Boris Johnson has been approved, meaning an extra £438M for the Olympic budget.
SIG stays cautious despite profits

9-Jul-2010
Roofing and insulation firm SIG today warned recovery prospects remained uncertain despite better-than-expected half-year profits.
£70M hospital revamp to go ahead

9-Jul-2010
The Government has announced it will make a “special case” of West Cumberland Hospital near Whitehaven in order to guarantee the site gets the “urgent improvements it needs” through £70M of funding.
Gulf oil leak 'may be stemmed early'

9-Jul-2010
The vital relief well being drilled to halt BP’s giant Gulf of Mexico spill could be finished ahead of schedule, the company has said.
Co-op launches design competition

9-Jul-2010
An ambitious plan by the Co-operative Group to redevelop a 8ha site in the heart of Manchester to house its head office and new cutting-edge public spaces has been opened up to bids from design teams.
House prices fall as market falters

8-Jul-2010
Property prices fell for the third month in a row during June as the housing market recovery showed further signs of faltering.
Building schools programme apology

8-Jul-2010
Education Secretary Michael Gove has apologised to 10 schools affected by mistakes in a Government document which made made them believe they had won a reprieve from the scrapping of the £55bn school building programme.
Potters Bar sabotage theory "preposterous"

8-Jul-2010
A private firm sub-contracted to carry out track maintenance put forward a “preposterous” sabotage theory after seven people died when a train hit faulty points and derailed, a lawyer representing victims’ families has told an inquest.
Tide turbine to built in Orkneys

8-Jul-2010
A new 80T tidal turbine is to be constructed in the Orkneys.
Rail network could replace flights

8-Jul-2010
A north-south high-speed rail (HSR) network would mean that internal flights in the UK would become largely a thing of the past, according to Transport Secretary Philip Hammond.
Deepwater oil seeping into Lake Pontchartrain

7-Jul-2010
Oil from the Gulf of Mexico leak is seeping into the giant Lake Pontchartrain north of New Orleans, threatening another environmental disaster for the huge body of water that was rescued from pollution in the 1990s.
Norman Foster quits Lords over non-dom status

7-Jul-2010
Lord Foster of Thames Bank has given up his seat in the House of Lords in order to hold on to his non-domiciled tax status, it was revealed today.
Housing body has funding slashed

7-Jul-2010
The government has confirmed that housing and regeneration group the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) will have an additional £220M cut from its budget in the current financial year.
Cape wins £12M Abu Dhabi contract

6-Jul-2010
Yorkshire-based industrial services group Cape has been awarded a £12M contract to provide thermal insulation works on the Borouge phase three petrochemical project in Abu Dhabi.
Borneo coal plant plan criticised

6-Jul-2010
A plan to build a coal-fired power plant on the island of Borneo in Malaysia has been criticised.
Review outlines business proposals

6-Jul-2010
The Penfold Review - set up to tackle problems facing businesses - has made a series of recommendations for encouraging development and growth, simplifying the planning and consents environment and cutting the amount of red tape faced by business and government.
"Hard work" needed for 2012 stadium

6-Jul-2010
The three priorities for people building for the London 2012 Olympic Games must be to “work hard, work hard, work hard” said International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge as he visited the Olympic Park.
Transport "can boost UK recovery"

6-Jul-2010
A Government minister has spoken out in defence of transport investment as a way to boost the UK’s economic recovery.
Thames cable car crossing plans released

5-Jul-2010
Plans for a new £25M River Thames crossing using a cable car system have been unveiled by Transport for London (TfL).
Cable fire causes Tube travel chaos

5-Jul-2010
Thousands of Tube passengers will face disruption on Monday following a cable fire and power failure in east London.
RAC: Road pay-by-mile system inevitable

5-Jul-2010
Charging motorists for each mile they travel is “inevitable” if future traffic gridlock is to be avoided, a report from the RAC Foundation has claimed.
Two killed as Hurricane Alex batters Gulf coast

2-Jul-2010
The after effects of Hurricane Alex have drenched much of northern Mexico, killing two and paralysing the major city of Monterrey.
Romanian death toll reaches 24

2-Jul-2010
The death toll in Romania has risen to 24 after torrential rain in recent days caused widespread flooding, forcing around 7,000 people to be evacuated from their homes.
Tipped crane spills fuel in river

1-Jul-2010
A construction crane spilled around 230l of diesel into a river near the Alaskan city of Fairbanks when it tipped over while working on a project to build a bridge.
Application lodged for Dublin Underground work

1-Jul-2010
Rail chiefs in Ireland have sought permission to press ahead with a €2.5bn (£2bn) Dart Underground in Dublin with work expected to begin within two years.
Trump course construction tees off

1-Jul-2010
A local authority has granted full planning permission to US billionaire Donald Trump to build a controversial £1bn luxury golf course.
I35W bridge victims seek punitive damages

30-Jun-2010
Victims of the deadly 2007 Minneapolis bridge collapse took legal steps Monday to seek punitive damages against an engineering firm that evaluated the bridge’s structural integrity before it fell.
Barratt mothballs stadium plan

30-Jun-2010
Barratt Homes has mothballed plans to build a new stadium for Brentford FC due to the “economic conditions”.
"Green ISAs" to fund environmental investment

30-Jun-2010
“Green” ISAs and bonds could be sold to help finance renewable energy projects as part of proposals for a green investment bank.
Osborne wants planning incentives

29-Jun-2010
Chancellor George Osborne has said more should be done to allow local communities to benefit financially for accepting the approval of nearby planning projects.
10 dead in Romanian floods

29-Jun-2010
Authorities say 10 people have died and three are missing after heavy rains and flooding in northeastern Romania.
£55M affordable housing scheme in Aberdeen

29-Jun-2010
More than 200 “low-cost” homes are to be built in a £55M city development in Aberdeen, the Scottish government has announced.
People "to pay for flood defences"

29-Jun-2010
People will have to pay more towards flood defences in their area in the future, according to the Environment Agency.
Ministers to take major infrastructure decisions

29-Jun-2010
Ministers are to take charge of major infrastructure planning applications following the abolition of a quango set up to fast-track decision-making, the government has announced.
Eredene wins £200M contract

29-Jun-2010
London-based infrastructure investment firm Eredene Capital has been awarded a £200M contract to construct and run a vast container terminal in southern India.
Plans approved for Somerset village

29-Jun-2010
Architecture company Adam Architecture has had plans approved for the extension to the village of Norton St Phillip.
French firm fined £224M for bribes

29-Jun-2010
A French engineering company is to pay £224M to settle US accusations it engaged in a decade-long scheme with a subsidiary of oil services giant Halliburton to bribe Nigerian officials to win construction contracts.
Peel to begin on business park

28-Jun-2010
Peel is to start work on Astley Business Park in Wigan next month.
Alexson fined over HSE risk charge

28-Jun-2010
Wolverhampton-based construction firm Alexson Homes has landed a fine of more than £6,000 after three workers were put at risk during a roof demolition in February.
Lord Rogers criticises Prince's intervention

28-Jun-2010
A row between Lord Rogers and the Prince of Wales over a multimillion-pound property development has erupted again.
Rail firms call for funding review

28-Jun-2010
Train companies have called for a “swift and rigorous” review of rail spending ahead of expected cuts.
Government to plug housing funding gap

25-Jun-2010
The government has announced it is to come up with some funding to plug the £610M gap in the Homes and Communities Agency’s finances which has seen all uncontracted publicly-funded housing projects being shelved.
Oxford hospital site housing plan approved

25-Jun-2010
Plans drawn up by Linden Homes and Thomas Homes to turn the derelict site of a Victorian hospital in Oxfordshire into a development of 354 homes have been approved.
Spenhill to regenerate Gateshead

25-Jun-2010
Tesco’s regeneration subsidiary Spenhill and Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council have signed a deal to begin a construction project to regenerate Gateshead’s town centre.
Huhne backs nuclear despite Lib Dem opposition

25-Jun-2010
Liberal Democrat energy secretary Chris Huhne has said new nuclear power would go ahead as part of the UK’s low-carbon energy mix - despite his party’s opposition to the technology.
Welsh government commits £19M to new mental health unit

25-Jun-2010
The Welsh Assembly government will contribute more than £19M towards a new 60-bed mental health unit to be built for older people at the Cefn Coed Hospital in Swansea.
Carillion wins PPP deal in Canada

24-Jun-2010
Carillion has won a £306M contract, similar to the UK public private partnership, to design, build and maintain a Forensic Services and Coroner’s Complex in Canada.
Firm fined after death on site

24-Jun-2010
Hanson Building Products Ltd has been fined £280,000 after a worker was killed when his head was crushed between a metal platform and concrete blocks.
Firm fined after worker loses foot

24-Jun-2010
A construction company has been ordered to pay more than £20,000 after a worker had his foot amputated following an accident on an excavation site in Barry.
Liverpool agrees £15M student-housing plan

24-Jun-2010
Liverpool-based EHA Developments and architects Falconer Chester Hall have been given the go ahead to build a £15M student accommodation project in the city.
UK house building up 68% on 2009

24-Jun-2010
UK house building rose 68% in the three months to May, compared with a year ago, figures from the National House-Building Council (NHBC) show.
Leeds council backs new railway station plans

24-Jun-2010
Proposals from developer Commercial Estates Group (CEG) for a new railway station at Kirkstall Forge have been given the go-ahead by Leeds City Council.
Olympic land battle at High Court

23-Jun-2010
A legal battle over the level of compensation that should be paid for land acquired for the London 2012 Olympic Games has reached the High Court.
Populous wins China stadium bid

23-Jun-2010
Design firm Populous, the company behind Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium and Skilled Park on Australia’s Gold Coast, has won a contract to build a major sports development in China.
Irish planning decisions scrutinised

23-Jun-2010
Planning decisions made by six local authorities in Ireland are to be investigated by a team of independent experts brought in from overseas.
Call to overhaul Welsh infrastructure

22-Jun-2010
Wales’s infrastructure needs urgent attention so it can meet the demands placed on it in the future and allow the economy to grow, engineers warned today.
Blast proof curtain in development

22-Jun-2010
A new type of blast-proof curtain that gets thicker rather than thinner when stretched is being developed to protect potential terrorist targets, a university said today.
Dozens die in Brazilian mudslides

22-Jun-2010
As many as 31 people have died in floods and mudslides in north-eastern Brazil, officials said.
Gatwick airport faces £1bn upgrade

22-Jun-2010
A £1bn plan to modernise Gatwick airport has been revealed by new owner Global Infrastructure Partners.
Relief well crews drilling ever deeper

21-Jun-2010
Drilling crews are grinding ever deeper to build the relief wells that are the best hope of stopping the massive oil leak at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.
China flood death toll rises to 175

21-Jun-2010
Widespread flooding in southern China has caused 175 deaths, with 107 people missing and more storms expected, the government has said.
Storms bring down Willis Tower glass

21-Jun-2010
A swift-moving storm carrying high winds and pelting rain knocked out windows at Chicago’s 110-story Willis Tower.
Prince's Chelsea influence exposed

18-Jun-2010
Internal emails from Qatari Diar, the developer behind the planned £3bn Chelsea barracks redevelopment have exposed the extent of the Prince of Wales’s interference in the project.
Scottish luxury golf course resort rejected

18-Jun-2010
A plan by MJ Developments to build a luxury golf resort among ancient woodlands in Scotland has been thrown out by the local authority.
French flood death toll rises to 25

18-Jun-2010
The death toll in flash floods in the hills above the French Riviera has rise to 25 as new thunderstorms threatened clean-up efforts in the picturesque region, officials said.
Stonehenge centre funding pulled

18-Jun-2010
A planned visitor centre in Stonehenge has become the latest victim of the Government’s public spending cuts.
Plans approved for London 2012 "Fatwalk" link

18-Jun-2010
The London Thames Gateway Development Corporation (LTGDC) has approved plans for a new green link that will connect the Thames with the 2012 Olympic site, it has announced.
Edinburgh Tram rescue plan raises costs by £55M

18-Jun-2010
The troubled Edinburgh Tram project is facing cost overruns of more than £50M, council leaders have said.
Leeds tower named in world's best

18-Jun-2010
The 23-storey Broadcasting Place tower in Leeds has been named as one of the best four towers erected across the world in 2010.
Atkins upbeat despite 6% profits slide

17-Jun-2010
Consultant Atkins has said pre-tax profits slipped nearly 6% after a year in which it cut staff numbers by 10%.
PH Property to convert Crosby Homes

17-Jun-2010
Property developer PH Property Holdings plans to convert the former offices of Crosby Homes in Altrincham into 13 luxury apartments, it has revealed.
BAM hit by phishing job letter scam

17-Jun-2010
Fraudsters are trying to steal people’s personal information by offering them jobs with BAM Construction which do not exist.
Report reveals NI water leakage

17-Jun-2010
A new report has revealed that around 181M litres of water are lost every day from Northern Ireland’s water system, costing an estimated £5M per year.
France rocked by fatal flash floods

17-Jun-2010
Record rainfall has caused flash floods in a picturesque region of the French Riviera, killing at least 19 people.
Spen Hill to build processing plant

17-Jun-2010
A new Tesco distribution and processing facility will be built in east London by construction firm Spen Hill, it has been revealed.
Costain unveils new training scheme

17-Jun-2010
Construction firm Costain and the National Construction College (NCC) have unveiled a new training scheme designed to ensure high-quality workmanship across the industry.
Council urged to 'stimulate' market

16-Jun-2010
Manchester’s Piccadilly Station has been identified as a hotspot for developers looking to build new office space following the success of the city’s Spinningfields area.
Olympic Park legacy shake-up call

16-Jun-2010
London mayor Boris Johnson has called for a more streamlined approach to deciding what happens to the Olympic Park after the 2012 Games.
Morgan Sindall awarded college deal

16-Jun-2010
Suffolk County Council has awarded Morgan Sindall a contract to build an £18.5M sixth-form college in Lowestoft.
Government to set out backing for nuclear plants

16-Jun-2010
Energy minister Charles Hendry will today set out the government’s support for new nuclear power, in the face of opposition from the Conservatives’ coalition partners the Liberal Democrats.
UK can be zero carbon by 2030, claims report

16-Jun-2010
A massive expansion in offshore wind, a switch to electric vehicles and steps to halve household energy demand could help the UK cut emissions to zero by 2030, a report has claimed.
Electrification plans may be dropped

16-Jun-2010
The government has appeared to indicate it will not go ahead with Labour’s plans for further electrification of the UK’s railway system in the near future.
Mouchel hit by public sector cuts

16-Jun-2010
Engineering and outsourcing firm Mouchel has said a spending crackdown by public sector clients after the general election had put the squeeze on the business.
Cork stadium rebuild faces vote

15-Jun-2010
A €30M (£25m) plan for a state-of-the-art stadium is being considered by Cork Council.
Developers bid for MoD contract

15-Jun-2010
Argent, St Modwen and Taylor Wimpey are all in the running to win a new Ministry of Defence (MoD) contract.
Hammersmith town centre developer reveals plans

15-Jun-2010
Hammersmith town centre’s final regeneration proposals have been unveiled to the public by King Street Developments.
Warning over cuts to transport budget

15-Jun-2010
A cut in transport budgets could lead to more pothole problems, higher rail fares and fewer buses, a report from the Campaign for Better Transport (CBT) has said.
Olympic Delivery Authority budget to be cut by £27M

15-Jun-2010
The Olympic Delivery Authority will have to reduce its budget by £27M this year, the Government has confirmed. But Lord Shutt of Greetland, for culture ministers, said this was “less than 2%” of this year’s £1.7bn budget.
First biorefinery plans announced

15-Jun-2010
The first advanced biorefinery in Europe will be built in the Tees Valley at a cost of £52M, it has been announced.
Explosion damages Galway City Hall

14-Jun-2010
Galway City Hall was badly damaged in an explosion today. More than a dozen windows, including their frames, were blown out of the rear of the building on College Road at about 8am.
Potters Bar jurors visit crash site

14-Jun-2010
Inquest jurors hearing evidence about the Potters Bar train crash, which left seven people dead and more than 70 injured, have visited the scene of the tragedy in Hertfordshire.
BP sends deep-sea sensors to measure spill

14-Jun-2010
BP mounted a more aggressive response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as it deployed undersea sensors to better measure the ferocious flow of crude while drawing up new plans to meet a US government demand that it speed up the containment effort.
Carillion agrees Heathrow contract

14-Jun-2010
A £50M facilities management service contract for Heathrow Airport has been awarded to Wolverhampton-based company Carillion.
Leeds City Council hid arena plans, court told

14-Jun-2010
Yorkshire-based developer Montpellier Estates has accused Leeds City Council of “actively concealing” its own “solid plans” for a new 12,500-seat arena in the city from companies submitting proposals.
Carlisle £38M flood defence scheme opens

11-Jun-2010
A £38M flood defence scheme has opened in Carlisle to reduce the flood risk to nearly 3,500 homes and businesses.
Potters Bar inquest hears track "fixed with chisel" pre-crash

11-Jun-2010
An inquest has heard how a rail maintenance worker fixed a track points problem with a hammer and chisel 10 months before a train derailed in Hertfordshire, killing seven people.
High speed stations could be privately financed

11-Jun-2010
Transport secretary Philip Hammond has said that private companies could be encouraged to fund stations along the route of a proposed high speed rail line.
A41 road diversion work begins

10-Jun-2010
The diversion of West Bromwich’s A41 expressway has got under way, as the first sod was cut by officials.
East stand development still key for Blackpool FC

10-Jun-2010
Developing the east stand at Bloomfield Road remains Blackpool’s priority in light of promotion to the Barclays Premier League, the club has confirmed.
Work restarts on Indian mega bridge

10-Jun-2010
Construction work has started again on the world’s tallest railway bridge in India after experts found that its alignment was safe enough for the project to continue.
Brooklyn Bridge to get £347M facelift

9-Jun-2010
The Brooklyn Bridge in New York is to undergo a US$500M (£347M) facelift, including a total repaint and repair of some the construction’s original features.
BP continues work to stem Gulf oil spill

9-Jun-2010
BP expects to have captured the majority of the oil gushing from its leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico by the time President Obama next visits the region.
Support increases for new Cambridge United stadium

9-Jun-2010
Grosvenor Developments is working with Cambridge United (CU) on plans for a new community stadium.
Oil rig safety checks to be increased

8-Jun-2010
The government will increase its inspection of North Sea drilling rigs in the wake of the massive oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) announced today.
Sea water uranium source plan

8-Jun-2010
Sea water could one day become an abundant source of nuclear fuel, new research suggests.
Deepwater cap on BP blown-out well collecting 2.3M.l of oil a day

8-Jun-2010
The cap on the blown-out BP well in the Gulf of Mexico is capturing 2.3M.l of oil a day - anywhere from 33% to 75% of the oil spewing from the bottom of the sea, officials said today.
UK Harry Potter theme park could be constructed

8-Jun-2010
Hopes that a Harry Potter theme park could be constructed in the UK have been ignited after London mayor Boris Johnson wrote to the film studios developing a similar site in the US.
Edinburgh's tram project chaos continues

8-Jun-2010
Edinburgh’s £500M tram project could be set for fresh delays as a dispute with German firm Bilfinger Berger continues with a threat to tear up the contract.
Construction firms share £73m work in south west

7-Jun-2010
Frameworks South West has chosen eight building firms to provide £73M worth of affordable housing in the region.
Mansell wins NHS Oldham contract

7-Jun-2010
Construction firm Mansell has won an £8.7M contract to build Werneth Primary Care Centre for NHS Oldham on behalf of Community 1st Oldham.
Dubai group set to begin repayments

7-Jun-2010
Dubai World’s debt-laden property arm Nakheel has revealed it hopes to reach agreements with large trade creditors that would allow it to begin paying overdue bills as soon as possible.
HSE tour targets construction sites

7-Jun-2010
Health and Safety Executive (HSE) officials will be driving a white van with a difference as they travel across the south-east of England to highlight potential dangers in the construction industry.
Anelay to restore the Florence Institute in Liverpool

7-Jun-2010
The restoration of the historic Florence Institute in Liverpool will be carried out by specialist building firm William Anelay, it has been confirmed.
Firm fined over poisoning death

7-Jun-2010
A Glasgow-based security firm which pleaded guilty to breaking health and safety rules after a security guard died from carbon monoxide poisoning at a construction site has been fined £7,000.
Investigations into Glasgow train derailment begin

7-Jun-2010
Investigators were today trying to establish why a train carriage derailed and caught fire, leaving eight people injured.
Tube maintenance staff vote to strike

7-Jun-2010
London Underground maintenance workers have voted in favour of strike action in a long-running row over jobs, pay and conditions, it was announced today.
Tornado's 'war zone' of destruction

7-Jun-2010
A tornado has killed at least seven people and destroyed dozens of homes in north-west Ohio in the US.
Cap capturing some oil, says BP

7-Jun-2010
A special cap is capturing more oil pouring from a damaged well in the Gulf of Mexico today, but that bit of hope was tempered by a sharp dose of pragmatism as a federal government’s official warned the crisis could stretch into the autumn.
Wolverhampton Wanderers unveil new stadium plans

4-Jun-2010
Wolverhamptom Wanderers has unveiled exciting plans for a £40M redevelopment of Molineux which would take its capacity to 36,000 in time for the start of the 2014/15 season.
BP slices pipe with giant shears

4-Jun-2010
Oil giant BP sliced off a pipe with giant shears in the latest bid to curtail the worst oil spill in US history in the Gulf of Mexico.
Stuck saw delays new BP oil effort

3-Jun-2010
BP’s latest effort to tackle the oil slick caused by an explosion at its Deepwater Horizon rig has run into problems.
Rise in US construction spending

3-Jun-2010
The US enjoyed the biggest rise in construction spending in nearly a decade in April as the economic recovery continued in the States.
First coal power station plans since 1970 lodged

3-Jun-2010
Controversial plans for the first coal-fired power station to be built since the 1970s have been formally lodged.
China landslide death toll hits 38

3-Jun-2010
Landslides caused by heavy rain have killed at least 38 people in southern China.
Planners appoint first female chief executive

3-Jun-2010
The Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) has named its first female chief executive in Kate Henderson, who has been in the role in an acting capacity since January.
Labour-approved projects reviewed

2-Jun-2010
The new coalition government has pledged to review a series of major transport and regeneration projects that were green lit during a “reckless” spending spree by the outgoing Labour government.
Holyrood backs school build plans

2-Jun-2010
The Scottish Government is set to give the go-ahead for 35 new schools to be built across the country as part of a £1.25bn project.
Holyrood praises home builds rise

2-Jun-2010
New figures have revealed that the number of new government-funded affordable homes built in Scotland in 2009-10 rose to a 28-year high
Labour-approved projects reviewed

2-Jun-2010
The Coalition has pledged to review a series of major transport and regeneration projects that were green lit during a “reckless” spending spree by the outgoing Labour Government.
Councils to withdraw core strategy

2-Jun-2010
Plans by the Government to return decision-making powers on housing and planning to local councils has prompted two Oxfordshire councils to withdraw plans for their core strategies.
Prince imparts community planning wisdom

2-Jun-2010
The Prince of Wales passed on his tips for community planning today, calling on housing developers to consider whether they would live in their own sites.
Point failure "root cause" of Potters Bar

2-Jun-2010
Experts concluded the “root cause” of the crash was the failure of a set of points south of Potters Bar station, Judge Michael Findlay Baker QC has told inquest jurors.
Apartment collapse kills seven in Dhaka

2-Jun-2010
A five-storey apartment building has collapsed in the Bangladesh capital, killing at least seven people and injuring another six, officials said.
Green light for Jodrell Bank centre

1-Jun-2010
A new multi-million pound visitor centre at Jodrell Bank Observatory has been approved for construction.
Bridge opens up Wicken Fen route

1-Jun-2010
A canal bridge that forms part of a nine mile route for local walkers and cyclists has been constructed in Cambridgeshire.
Robots work on latest oil leak bid

1-Jun-2010
Robot submarines are carrying equipment and cutting small pipes at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, preparing to place a cap-like containment valve over the blown-out oil well.
Plan for £30M environmental hub unveiled

28-May-2010
An environmental exhibition and conference centre is to be built as a landmark for a planned ‘green enterprise district’ in London.
Grand designs for Birmingham's £1.5M Jewellery Quarter

28-May-2010
Architects Bryant Priest Newman are part of a design team working on plans for a £1.5M public square in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter.
Council backs wind farm proposals

28-May-2010
Plans for a wind farm have been approved by Rotherham Council - despite a lengthy campaign against the proposals.
Offshore power station to be built near Skye

27-May-2010
A power station which could be the “world’s first” such offshore installation has been earmarked for the straits between the Isle of Skye and the Scottish mainland.
Construction project funds withheld

27-May-2010
The suspension of £110M of state funding for the Royal Exchange construction project in Belfast city centre has led to fears the work may be permanently scrapped.
2010 "crucial" for Olympic green targets

26-May-2010
An Olympic sustainability watchdog has warned that 2010 is going to be a “critical year” in making sure that green targets for the London 2012 Games are achieved.
Campaigners demand Bristol Airport inquiry

26-May-2010
Campaigners opposing the expansion of Bristol Airport have demanded a public inquiry after North Somerset Council approved the plans.
New plan to cut construction waste

25-May-2010
A new project to cut the 25M.t of construction-related waste sent to landfill sites every year has been announced by the London Waste and Recycling Board.
BDP to carry out £165M Manchester Town Hall redevelopment

25-May-2010
Building Design Partnership (BDP) is to carry out a three-year £165M redevelopment of Manchester Town Hall.
Capita Architecture wins Riba award for hospital

25-May-2010
Capita Architecture’s design for a pioneering new hospital in Northern Ireland has won an award from the Royal Institute of British Architects (Riba).
Recession continues to curb UK carbon emissions

24-May-2010
The UK’s carbon emissions are set to fall again slightly in 2010 after the recession drove dramatic declines of around 10% last year, analysts have found.
Gardner fined over worker injury

24-May-2010
Contractor Keith Gardner has received a fine of £7,000 after a builder was seriously injured when a wall collapsed on top of him at a construction site in east London.
Aberdeen approves £140M city square

21-May-2010
A plan to create a £140M city-centre square has been approved by councillors in Aberdeen.
National Grid in £3.2bn cash call for network upgrade

21-May-2010
National Grid is tapping shareholders for a £3.2bn investment to help fund a major update of its ageing network and infrastructure.
Industrial and infrastructure construction still shrinking

21-May-2010
Construction growth areas are in private commercial and housing, as well as public housing. Sectors which are still shrinking are private industrial and infrastructure, according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
Scottish offshore energy capacity revealed

21-May-2010
Harnessing just a fraction of Scotland’s potential offshore energy could meet electricity demand seven times over, according to a new report.
Scottish offshore energy capacity revealed

20-May-2010
Harnessing just a fraction of Scotland’s potential offshore energy could meet electricity demand seven times over, according to a new report.
Belfast sewer upgrade finished

20-May-2010
A four-year project to upgrade the Belfast sewers network and reduce the risk of flooding has been completed at a total cost of £160 million.
Birmingham Council appoints Glenn Howells

20-May-2010
Glenn Howells Architects has been appointed to outline what effect a high-speed rail route through Birmingham would have on development plans for the city.
Rotherham resort bid moves closer

19-May-2010
Oak Holdings - the firm behind the multimillion-pound Yes! Project in Yorkshire - says the scheme has taken a significant step forward after it received the green light by the council.
Land Securities returns to profit

19-May-2010
Land Securities has hailed a “dramatic turnaround” in the commercial property market as the group swung back into profit.
Call to halt prison building scheme

19-May-2010
Prison building will not ease the problem of jail overcrowding, Justice Secretary Ken Clarke has been warned.
Prince "intervened" over Chelsea barracks

19-May-2010
Property developer Christian Candy has given a colourful account of why he believes the Prince of Wales put the brakes on his redevelopment plans for the prestigious 5.2ha Chelsea Barracks site in London.
BDP wins Manchester redevelopment contract

19-May-2010
International architect practice BDP has won a contract to oversee the redevelopment of Manchester’s Central Library and Town Hall.
Wave-power machine ready for tests

19-May-2010
A new type of renewable-energy machine that converts wave power into 750kW of electricity has been unveiled in Scotland.
Northern Ireland job losses stemmed

18-May-2010
The loss of construction jobs in Northern Ireland has been stemmed, figures show.
Engineers struggle against Turkish mine collapse

18-May-2010
A chief engineer overseeing the effort to rescue 30 mineworkers trapped in a collapsed Turkish coal mine has said hopes of a successful rescue are “fading”.
West Ham "hopeful" of move to Olympic Stadium

17-May-2010
West Ham United (WHU) said the club is “hopeful” of moving to the Olympic Stadium after the London 2012 Games.
Building contracts 'to be queried'

17-May-2010
The new Conservative-Liberal Democrat administration is concerned about school-building contracts that were rubber-stamped by the previous Labour government weeks before the General Election, reports have claimed.
Tube engineers to strike over pay

17-May-2010
Workers who drive engineering trains on the London Underground are to stage a series of weekend strikes in a dispute over pay, it was announced today.
Pipe sucks oil from Gulf well

17-May-2010
BP engineers have finally succeeded in keeping some of the oil gushing from a blown well out of the Gulf of Mexico, hooking up a 1.6km long tube to funnel it into a tanker after more than three weeks of failures.
BP calls on robots to plug oil leak

14-May-2010
Under fire BP has resorted to undersea robots in an attempt to siphon off some of the 955,000l of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico following the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
Incinerator decision overturned

14-May-2010
Holyrood has given a developer leave to appeal against a council decision refusing planning permission for a £43M incinerator at Invergordon.
Corus unveils Port Talbot coal plan

13-May-2010
Steel giant Corus has unveiled a £6M exploration project to investigate the possibility of using local coal reserves to fuel its Port Talbot plant in South Wales.
Repairs shut Middlesbrough bridge

13-May-2010
An iconic bridge in Middlesbrough is to be closed for a final sprucing-up ahead of its centenary next year.
'Toughest year' for Olympic build

13-May-2010
As many as 11,000 people are expected to work on building the Olympic Park in east London by autumn, in what is set to be the “toughest year” of the big build.
Tentative backing for Forth bridge

13-May-2010
MSPs have thrown their weight behind plans to build a £2.3bn bridge across the Firth of Forth.
Babcock blames failure to secure rail contracts for 25% job cuts

12-May-2010
Babcock has cited the Office of Rail Regulation taking a reduced settlement of £28.5bn with Network Rail as the reason for cutting 25% of its rail construction and renewals workforce.
Offshore wind farm sites approved

12-May-2010
Five offshore coastal wind farms are set to be developed to help generate enough energy for 1.4M new homes across the country.
EU calls for improved security on offshore rigs

12-May-2010
Security measures imposed by offshore oil and gas giants should be stepped up to avoid an ecological disaster similar to the Gulf of Mexico oil rig explosion, according to EU Energy Commissioner Gunter Oettinger.
Black Hawks called in as slick grows

11-May-2010
Black Hawk helicopters peppered Louisiana’s barrier islands with sacks of sand to bolster crucial wetlands against the four million gallon (15.14M litres) and growing Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Afghan floods cause destruction

11-May-2010
Hundreds of homes have been ravaged and at least 10 people have been killed after floods destroyed villages in north-east Afghanistan.
Farrell to draw up harbour plans

7-May-2010
Plans to redevelop Folkestone Harbour and Seafront have been drawn up by Terry Farrell & Partners.
Halcrow aids Glasgow airport development plan

7-May-2010
Halcrow will assist Glasgow Airport in developing a “masterplan” to maximise the site’s potential.
Environment Agency offices may turn into shops

7-May-2010
Property developer Morbaine wants to transform former Environment Agency offices in Lincolnshire into a large food shop and a children’s nursery.
Japanese nuclear reactor restarted

6-May-2010
A fast-breeder nuclear reactor has been restarted in Japan - 14 years after it was last used.
Imperial War Museum redevelopment moves step closer

6-May-2010
Drivers Jonas Deloitte and Foster + Partners have been put in charge of a masterplan to improve the Imperial War Museum in south London.
Vast North Kent port development gets go-ahead

6-May-2010
Outline planning permission for a vast business park in north Kent has been received.
Special purpose dome heads to US oil spill

6-May-2010
A specially-built giant concrete-and-steel box designed to siphon oil away was being brought into use today as a short-term solution to bottling up the disastrous oil spill threatening sea life and livelihoods along the Gulf Coast of America.
Security wall to encircle Baghdad

5-May-2010
Iraqi authorities have begun a major engineering project to construct a security wall around the capital Baghdad.
£2.8M boost for Glasgow station

5-May-2010
The European Regional Development Fund has provided a £2.8M funding boost for plans to redevelop Dalmarnock Rail Station in Glasgow’s East End.
Bidders line up for Olympic Stadium

5-May-2010
West Ham United Football Club and the US entertainment company that revived the fortunes of the Millennium Dome are among the contenders to take over London’s Olympic Stadium after 2012.
Funnel solution for gulf of Mexico oil leak

5-May-2010
Engineers are racing to stem the disastrous oil leak a 1.6km beneath the Gulf of Mexico, relying on a series of highly technical - and in some cases unprecedented - manoeuvres.
Corus urged to reveal Redcar plans

4-May-2010
A union has urged steel giant Corus to come clean over the future of its mothballed factory in Redcar after it revealed another firm was interested in buying the site.
FIFA slams Brazil stadium projects

4-May-2010
FIFA has revealed major concerns over the construction of a number of stadiums in Brazil ahead of the 2014 World Cup.
Canada offers £357M for international bridge

30-Apr-2010
Canada has offered to lend £357M ($550M) to Michigan to help fund a proposed international bridge across the Detroit River, it has been announced.
Construction firms seek IT upgrades

30-Apr-2010
British construction firms are spending twice as much on IT as they did 20 years ago, according to a new report.
Babcock in dispute over Jarvis rail work

30-Apr-2010
Only a quarter of 1,200 jobs at two rail-renewal projects will be saved when engineering firm Babcock takes on the contracts following the collapse of Jarvis last month.
Merepak funding for city building

29-Apr-2010
Developer Merepark has finalised a £37.1M funding deal for the refurbishment of Liverpool’s historic Lewis building - a key part of the city’s Central Village regeneration scheme.
European renewable roadmap unveiled

29-Apr-2010
A “roadmap” designed to offer a glimpse of Europe’s renewable energy future has said that the North Sea could help provide electricity for the entire continent by 2050.
Network Rail accused of 'ditching Jarvis'

28-Apr-2010
Network Rail has been accused of “washing its hands” of 1,200 workers who lost their jobs in the collapse of maintenance giant Jarvis.
Laing discusses Quinn takeover deal

28-Apr-2010
Laing O`Rourke has held talks with the Quinn Group in Northern Ireland as speculation continues over a possible takeover of parts of the beleaguered business empire.
Leicestershire site refines recycling process

28-Apr-2010
A waste facility that will act as a second line of defence to ensure everything that can be recycled will be put to good use is being constructed in Leicestershire.
Glasgow 2014 games funding call

27-Apr-2010
Scotland’s deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has called for the return of £150M of lottery cash which she claims was diverted from funding the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow to support the London Olympics.
Work continues on Bristol stadium

27-Apr-2010
Bristol Academy will kick off the FA’s Super League season next March playing at the UK’s first purpose-built women’s football stadium, which will cost £850,000.
Caterpillar ramps up production

27-Apr-2010
US heavy machinery manufacturer Caterpillar has announced a revival in its markets and said it is increasing production to meet a huge rise in demand from emerging nations in Asia and Latin America.
Wates Construction wins Liverpool campus job

26-Apr-2010
A £19.5M contract has been given to Wates Construction to build a campus for Liverpool John Moores University (JMU).
Corus steelworkers vote on strikes

23-Apr-2010
Steelworkers are to be balloted for industrial action over the mothballing of a huge plant, with the loss of up to 1,500 jobs.
New bridge reunites Cumbrian town

22-Apr-2010
A Cumbrian community is celebrating after a temporary road bridge was opened to reunite them.
Balfour Beatty and Laing battle for hospital contract

22-Apr-2010
Construction giants Balfour Beatty and Laing are going head to head to win a contract for the first paediatric unit of its kind at a Liverpool children’s hospital.
Kevin McLoud to give RIBA lecture

22-Apr-2010
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced that television presenter Kevin McCloud will deliver a lecture on rebuilding communities at the organisation’s annual event.
Funds boost to Scottish regeneration and development

21-Apr-2010
European funding of £17.4M is to be invested in urban regeneration and rural development projects in Scotland, it has been announced.
Scottish hydro-electric schemes win approval

21-Apr-2010
Four new hydro-electric schemes have been approved for construction on the Glen Falloch estate, near Crianlarich.
Call for strike at Corus plant

20-Apr-2010
Trade union officials have called for a ballot for a possible strike by workers at a plant which has been partially mothballed.
Firm fined after roof worker falls

20-Apr-2010
Agricultural building company TMN Fabrications Ltd has been prosecuted for health and safety breaches that led to a worker falling four metres from the roof of a building.
Tories plan to protect heritage

20-Apr-2010
The Conservative Party plans to put an end to historic buildings being blighted by nearby modern, high-rise office and tower blocks.
Brownfield regeneration deal signed

20-Apr-2010
The regeneration of one of the largest brownfield sites in the UK has moved a step closer following the agreement of a section 106 planning deal.
Firm reveals carbon emission drop

19-Apr-2010
Construction company BAM Construct UK has revealed it is continuing to reduce its carbon footprint.
Cost cutting boosts Cyril Sweett

19-Apr-2010
Construction and property consultancy firm Cyril Sweett said it expects to post a pre-tax profit of £3M for this year.
Town centre scheme gets green light

19-Apr-2010
Developer St Modwen and Welwyn Hatfield Council will begin work on regeneration plans for the town of Hatfield in Hertfordshire after the council’s planning committee gave the proposals the go-ahead.
Judge opens bidding on controversial Brazil dam

19-Apr-2010
A Brazilian judge has overturned a ruling that could have delayed the building of a huge Amazon dam opposed by environmentalists, Indians and Avatar director James Cameron.
"Giant white horse" gets out the starting blocks

16-Apr-2010
Gravesham Borough Council has granted planning permission for a project which would see a giant white horse constructed in Kent.
Scottish projects get £76M boost

15-Apr-2010
Scottish finance secretary John Swinney has revealed an extra £76M funding will be given towards green transport, road building and affordable housing projects across the country.
Minister defends Forth bridge work

15-Apr-2010
Scottish transport minister Stewart Stevenson has defended the Forth bridge project and said future generations would “not thank” politicians if plans for a new bridge are delayed.
Floods close Christ the Redeemer

14-Apr-2010
One of the world’s most popular tourist attractions has been shut indefinitely due to heavy rain which has damaged access roads.
Severn Barrage 'should be scrapped'

14-Apr-2010
Plans for the £23bn Severn Barrage project should be scrapped, according to MPs from the Labour and Conservative parties.
Architects given anti-terror advice

14-Apr-2010
Architects have been issued with guidance on how to incorporate anti-terrorism measures into building designs.
Firm fined over worker's fatal fall

14-Apr-2010
Building firm Rubb Buildings has been hit with a £100,000 fine after one of its employees fell 10m to his death from an aircraft hanger roof.
Irish firms reap Olympics rewards

14-Apr-2010
Irish companies and contractors have so far secured more than £130M worth of work for the 2012 Olympic Games, it has been announced.
City's tallest building topped out

13-Apr-2010
A topping out ceremony has been held to mark the topping out of the City of London’s tallest building.
Labour plans action on gangmasters

13-Apr-2010
Labour plans to extend the licensing of gangmasters to the construction industry will help “rid the industry of rogue employment agencies” a trade union boss has said.
Colder asphalt could cut pollution

13-Apr-2010
At least a third of the emissions produced by asphalt companies could be cut during the next 10 years if a lower-temperature version of the material is used.
Brazil floods force demolitions

13-Apr-2010
The Brazilian government has announced plans to invest £363M in a home building programme after evicting thousands of residents from flood-hit slums in Rio de Janeiro.
21-storey skycrapers get go-ahead

13-Apr-2010
Two skyscrapers which will tower 106 metres above Finsbury Park station in north London have been approved by the borough council.
Citizen shareholder road toll plan unveiled

12-Apr-2010
A revolutionary plan to scrap car tax and give all citizens tradeable shares in England’s major road network was unveiled by a think-tank today.
Haiti camp evacuated over landslide fears

12-Apr-2010
British aid workers are assisting as thousands of families in Haiti were evacuated for the second time since the nation’s devastating earthquake.

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