Market moves, contract awards and hiring signals across UK construction, and what each one means for your career.
New Begbies Traynor data shows 7,458 construction firms in critical financial distress last quarter, even as the sector's PMI stays stuck in contraction. Here's how to read it before your next move.
Creditsafe data shows 25 construction firms fell into administration in August, the second monthly fall in a row, but the year-to-date total is still running ahead of last year.
Robertson, Caddick and Esh have been appointed to a four-year, £208m Karbon Homes framework to build extra care housing across the North East and Yorkshire, with Robertson taking the largest share.
Siemens Energy will build turbine components for Rolls-Royce's first small modular reactors at its historic Newcastle works, backing more than 550 jobs and opening a new UK manufacturing route into nuclear.
Output fell at its fastest pace in months as the housing slump deepened, but transport infrastructure and data centre work kept staff numbers from falling further. Here is where that leaves the job market.
Housing minister Matthew Pennycook has confirmed a workforce plan is due later this year to tackle chronic skills shortages. Here is what a plan like this can actually do for your career, and what to treat with caution.
Graham has Building Safety Regulator sign-off to start main construction on a £286m, 2,302-bed student scheme in Manchester. For anyone in high-rise residential or PBSA, this is where the next four years of site jobs are landing.
Leeds City Council has made Balfour Beatty sole contractor on a seven-year, £120m renewal of the city's inner ring road, covering 135 structures including bridges and tunnels. It's the kind of long-run commitment that's rare in local authority highways work.
Costain's half-year results put its forward work position at a record £7bn, with major projects now moving out of design and into construction. For engineers currently sat in the design phase of infrastructure programmes, that shift is where the hiring happens next.
Bloomberg Intelligence analysis shows England's top six housebuilders now expected to complete around 16,000 fewer homes across 2026 and 2027 than forecast at the end of 2024, with Vistry and Berkeley hit hardest while Persimmon and Taylor Wimpey hold up better. Which employer you choose now matters more than usual.
Gilbert-Ash has secured the £40m main contract to restore RIBA's Grade II* headquarters at 66 Portland Place, a pilot for the UK's new Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard. For anyone with listed-building and net-zero retrofit experience, this is the kind of project that gets you noticed.
Tilbury Douglas has handed over a new urgent and emergency care facility at Arrowe Park Hospital in Wirral, built in four phases without closing the existing A&E. It's a reminder that healthcare estates keep spending even when other sectors slow.
HS2 has appointed Neil Holm, formerly of the Transpennine Route Upgrade and BAE Systems, as chief programme officer, a sign that the project's long reset is entering its final stretch. The delivery phase that follows will need people who can run large programmes and manage supplier risk.
The construction downturn eased slightly in August, but firms are still cutting headcount, and civil engineering just posted its worst month since 2020.
HS2 has launched the first phase of its last major viaduct into Curzon Street station, a job that will run to next summer and needs engineers on site the whole way.
Breyer Holdings folded after seven decades trading, putting 285 jobs at risk and leaving another trail of unpaid subcontractors in the specialist trades.
A Barbour ABI analysis finds more than £100bn of UK data centre construction working its way toward contractors. Here is where the M&E-heavy demand is landing, and what it means for anyone weighing a move into the sector.
CITB's latest five-year outlook puts average annual demand at 41,200 extra workers through 2030, even as short-term output stays subdued. The gap says more about your negotiating position than the headline figures do.
KPMG and REC's UK Report on Jobs for August shows temporary vacancies rising for the first time in two years, with construction trades and engineering leading the gains. What the data means if you are weighing a move now.
The West Country housebuilder's administration papers show £35m owed to unsecured creditors, with subcontractors expected to receive nothing. Here's what the collapse signals for regional housebuilding and the QSs working in it.
Orbit has launched a combined £1.6bn procurement programme for planned repairs, retrofit and compliance work across five English regions. Here is what the framework means for QSs, PMs and retrofit specialists over the next decade.
Willmott Dixon Developments and Rioja Estates have submitted plans for a £150m waterfront regeneration in Great Yarmouth, with construction pencilled in for 2028. Early, but worth putting on your radar.
Morgan Sindall Construction has split its Home Counties business in two and handed out four senior director appointments across London and the South East. For anyone working that patch, it is a live example of where the next wave of regional leadership roles will open.
Sizewell C has appointed recruitment firm Rullion to run its early careers programme as the nuclear project builds toward roughly 1,500 apprenticeships during construction. It is one of the clearest hiring signals in the sector right now, for entrants and for the experienced staff who will supervise them.