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British Land is pumping close to £4bn into transforming Canada Water, with around 5m sq ft of new developments on the cards. The project’s mastermind Roger Madelin takes CN around a site that is catching the eye of industry heavyweights.

Around 200 years ago, Canada Dock was pulsating with economic activity. It…

New skillsets are going to be required as a huge pipeline of work comes to fruition.

More than £15bn is to be invested in England’s motorways and major A roads in the six years to spring 2021. The Roads Investment Strategy, published in late 2014, set out plans for 127 schemes…

The rise of cloud computing and mobile data consumption has led to an increased need for data storage. But while the market is set to grow, potentially providing big opportunities for specialist contractors, the barriers to entry are high.

Viewed from the outside, data centres could scarcely be more nondescript: featureless…

Major players are flocking to the private rented sector. Construction News looks at who’s doing what and examines where this increasingly lucrative market is heading.

PRS units in planning construction or completed since Oct 2015_Savills Source: Savills Are private rented homes the future of the residential sector? That seems the…

With days to go until the Construction News Summit, check out the full A-Z run-down of the top clients in attendance and what they’ll be debating.

Aberdeen City Council Further Scottish devolution will be among the hot topics head of economic development Richard Sweetnam will address in afternoon session A.Anthology Managing…

Major industry clients including the Department for Transport, Network Rail and Heathrow Airport will set out their pipelines and requirements at next week’s Construction News Summit.

Highways England chief executive Jim O’Sullivan will kick things off on Wednesday 4 November at the VIP Breakfast Briefing, giving an insight into what he…

Lipton Rogers co-founder sets out his vision for London, what contractors need to do differently and why the Walkie Talkie is ‘nuts’.

‘I love building things’Multiplex proof in the puddingWealth of inspirationContractor shortcomingsAviation analogyWalkie Talkie ‘nuts’I am discussing the merits of fixed-price contracting with Peter Rogers when there’s a knock on…

German hotel chain Motel One has outlined plans to build more than 1,400 hotel rooms in the UK over the next two years.

Motel One, which currently has a network of 45 hotels in Germany, Austria and Belgium, opened its first UK hotel in Edinburgh last December.It has a confirmed pipeline…

From the regeneration of the iconic Battersea Power Station to the provision of tens of thousands of new homes, the US Embassy and the Northern Line extension, there is work for years to come in the Vauxhall and Nine Elms area of London. Construction News maps out the opportunities and…

Relationships can be as important as price for office developers

Getting work from developers is all about relationships. “They want to know the price they get is deliverable two to three years down the line and that is the reason relationships are key,” says Simon Rawlinson, head of strategic research and…