JCB has started to sell machines online, direct to end-users, for the first time in its history.

Balfour Beatty’s £67m Lowestoft flood risk management project has moved a step closer to start of construction with ground investigation works beginning this week.

Scottish Borders Council has confirmed McLaughlin & Harvey as main works contractor for the £88m Hawick flood protection scheme.

Construction has been completed of a new £11m wharf to serve British Antarctic Survey’s King Edward Point Research Station in South Georgia.

Britain’s builders are mostly back at work but supply chain problems continue, latest surveys confirm.

Homes England, the government’s ‘housing accelerator’, has commissioned research to demonstrate how well prefabrication can deliver quick and cheap housing.

After the intervention of the competition authorities, SIG has abandoned the planned sale of its Building Solutions cladding business.

Sunbelt, the new name for A-Plant, has invested £400,000 in solar-powered mobile lighting towers specifically for its rail division.

Another manufacturer of wearable tech is repurposing its products for the social distancing, one of Britain's hottest markets right now.

Sales figures from members of the Builders Merchants Federation show a perhaps surprisingly modest decline for the early days of the Covid-19 crisis.