Uk Construction News Today

Construction companies are still refusing to hire women, despite an ongoing staffing crisis and demand for new recruits in the front-line manual sector.

One team in England recently achieved one of the worlds most sustained single tunnel-boring machine drives on a mine project, says its contractor, while another secured a design-build contract for the countrys longest road tunnel,

Officials have increased the maximum strike price for future projects following September auction that had no lease site bidders.

The latest UK Construction PMI data signals a modest upturn in overall UK construction output, driven by faster rises in commercial building and civil engineering activity. However, house building remained by far the weakest-performing category of activity, with output declining at the steepest pace for three years.