Construction news

• TCC helps with new Costa Coffee drive through

  16-06-2026 19:02
  
  A new drive-through coffee shop is taking shape in Shrewsbury, with help from a Birmingham-based construction consultancy.
  The Construction Consultants (TCC) have been appointed to support the development of a new £800,000 Costa Coffee drive-through on the Sentinel Trade Park in Shrewsbury.
  This is the 10th Costa Coffee project supported by TCC. The consultancy has worked on Costa developments in Bristol, Wolverhampton and Andover among other locations.
  TCC is providing employers agent ser
  
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• Graham signals start of £17m railway museum rebuild

  16-06-2026 16:55
  
  Graham has signed up to deliver the National Railway Museum’s long-awaited Central Hall project in York, paving the way for construction work to begin on a landmark new entrance building.
  The contractor, which completed pre-construction services on the scheme, will now start main construction work on the project, expected to take around two years to complete.
  The new building forms a key part of the museum’s wider transformation programme and sits at the heart of the York Central reg
  
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• £1bn London film quarter scheme in Camden approved

  16-06-2026 16:17
  
  London’s Camden Council has granted planning permission for a £1bn regeneration scheme that will create one of the UK’s biggest film and television production hubs alongside hundreds of new homes in north London.
  The Camden Film Quarter project at Regis Road in Kentish Town will deliver 11 purpose-built sound stages, more than 100,000 sq ft of creative workspace and 485 homes, half of them affordable.
  Developer Yoo Capital said the scheme would create a fully integrated screen
  
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• Race starts to create blueprint for ultra-low-carbon schools

  16-06-2026 08:59
  The Department for Education has begun assembling the team to develop and built a demonstrator for the next-generation ultra-low-carbon school buildings across England.
  Ministers have launched a £3.9m procurement for an innovation lead to spearhead the Regenerative Schools Pilot, a flagship initiative that will test new construction methods, bio-based materials and nature-led design solutions for future school buildings.
  The successful consultant will become the Department’s principa
  
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• London mayor invests £100m in Silvertown revamp

  16-06-2026 08:40
  
  Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan has launched a ‘Singapore-style’ housing development arm for the capital with a £100m investment in the Silvertown Partnership.
  Public money from the Greater London Authority will be pumped into the scheme to deliver 7,000 new homes in the Royal Docks.
  The move sees City Hall becoming an active developer – intervening in London’s land market to “maximise affordable housing delivery and accelerate the speed of building”.The ini
  
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• Marlborough beats big rivals to £150m West Berkshire roads deal

  16-06-2026 08:21
  
  West Berkshire Council has handed fast-expanding Marlborough Highways a £150m highways maintenance deal after seeing off bids from four major rivals.
  The Essex-based contractor beat Ringway, VolkerHighways, M Group Highways and Costain to secure the seven-year contract, which starts in October and can be extended by a further three years.
  West Berkshire spends more than £15m a year on highway maintenance, covering reactive and planned works, winter maintenance and asset management, a
  
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