The number of new homes being registered across the UK remains slightly ahead of corresponding statistics for last year according to new figures from NHBC, but there were considerable regional differences. The latest statistics show that 38,099 new homes were…
Category: Construction
Construction: Second quarter housing starts up 18 percent on last year
The level of England’s new housing construction activity in the April to June quarter of 2014 was unchanged on the first quarter but up 18% year-on-year. The latest statistics show that there were 36,230 new housing starts in England between…
Ealing Crossrail station plans approved
A rebuilding of Ealing Broadway railway and tube station in west London has been approved by local council planners. Platforms will be extended to accommodate the high-capacity Crossrail trains that will pass through the station every six minutes at peak.…
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A Thiess joint venture has been selected for the AWRP in Australia
The AWRP will be built for Western Australia’s Water Corporation in Craigie, north of Perth. It will use treated water from the Beenyup Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) to inject highly-treated wastewater into aquifers as part of a project to boost…
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Housing Construction has its sharpest rise since November 2003
The seasonally adjusted Markit/CIPS UK Construction Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) registered 62.4 in July, down slightly from 62.6 in June but above the neutral 50.0 mark for the 15th successive month. Moreover, the latest expansion of overall construction activity was…
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