Market moves, contract awards and hiring signals across UK construction, and what each one means for your career.
Fife-based Muir Group has reported turnover up 30% to £113.9m and a tenfold rise in group profit, with its contracting arm doing the heavy lifting while housebuilding stays soft. It is a useful read on where Scottish construction hiring is actually happening.
Balfour Beatty's half year results beat expectations and pushed guidance higher for a second time this year, on the back of energy, defence, transport and US buildings work. Here's where the hiring will follow.
Government has doubled the weight social value carries on major public contracts and cut the scoring criteria down to jobs and skills alone. If you touch public sector bids, this changes what you need to show.
ScottishPower Renewables has awarded RES a new safety and control contract for its 960MW East Anglia TWO wind farm, bringing another wave of specialist high voltage recruitment to the Suffolk coast.
Kier has beaten McLaren and Wates to a £99m Derwent London job on Oxford Street, a sign that top-tier commercial fit-out work in the capital is still there for contractors who can win it.
A four-year Sizewell C contract for Boccard UK's Deeside factory shows the nuclear new-build jobs boom is now as much about fabrication shops in Wales as it is about the site in Suffolk.
Avtar Construction's fall into administration, after margins were squeezed to under 1%, shows how thin the ground is getting for groundworks subcontractors tied to the volume housebuilders.
Kier has landed its biggest wastewater job yet on Thames Water's AMP8 programme. It is a useful signal for anyone weighing a move into water and utilities.
The Leeds housing contractor has gone into administration with most of its 115 staff made redundant. Here is what its collapse says about the wider market and what displaced staff should do next.
NHS trusts have signed construction partners for the first wave of the New Hospital Programme. Here is what the pairings mean for healthcare-sector careers over the next four years.
Morgan Sindall posted record first-half profits on the back of a booming fit out arm, and raised its medium-term targets for both fit out and construction. For anyone in those two disciplines, that's a hiring signal worth reading closely.
Natural Power has won a five-year operations and maintenance contract across five ScottishPower Renewables onshore windfarms, and is expanding its teams to deliver it. For engineers in southern Scotland, this is where the openings are.
Yorkshire Water has awarded an £80 million multi-supplier technical services framework to 15 engineering and consultancy firms to deliver its AMP8 programme. It is a four-year pipeline of named work, and a clear steer on who is hiring designers now.
Skanska has signed for two New Hospital Programme schemes worth almost £2bn between them, confirming it as construction partner on both new Norfolk hospitals. Here's what the wave of NHP contract signings means for anyone working health-sector projects.
Graham has landed the last major contract on Oxfordshire's £332m Didcot infrastructure programme, taking on a new road and river crossing. It marks the point where a long-planned scheme shifts from procurement into delivery.
McLaughlin & Harvey has won a £100m-plus contract to build a new combat air facility for Rolls-Royce in Bristol, the latest sign that UK defence manufacturing is becoming a serious construction sector in its own right.
Persimmon's half-year results show completions up 13% and full-year guidance raised to 12,500 homes, but softer July enquiries mean site, technical and land teams should read the two halves of this story differently.
Great British Energy-Nuclear has published a £4.6bn commercial pipeline for Britain's small modular reactor programme, giving quantity surveyors, commercial managers and project engineers a rare multi-year run-up to plan a nuclear career move.
Severfield swung to a £40m loss and has now made two senior appointments to drive its turnaround, a signal that the UK's biggest structural steel contractor is entering the execution phase of a shift towards higher-margin, complex work.
Farrans has been appointed to build new skylink walkways at Stansted Airport, the first visible construction package in the airport's £1.1bn terminal expansion. Offsite fabrication and night-time logistics make it a technically distinctive job worth watching.
Northamptonshire civils and groundworks firm Agetur has gone into administration owing more than £2m to trade creditors, with all staff made redundant overnight. It's a reminder of how thin the margin still is for housebuilders' civils supply chain.
After an eight-year planning and legal saga, Wring Group has begun demolition at Bristol's Ashton Gate sporting quarter, clearing the way for a new arena, 125 homes and a hotel. It's the kind of long-gestating regeneration scheme that quietly rebuilds a regional workforce.
HS2 has renegotiated its main civils contracts with the EKFB and Align joint ventures, replacing the cost-plus model blamed for years of budget overruns with one that rewards efficient delivery.
Construction News data shows a record 32 firms went under in July, including Leeds contractor Torsion Construction, even as survey data suggests the wider downturn is easing.