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Citizen renovates acclaimed maisonettes

Citizen has invested £2.1m in a project to renovate post-war Coventry maisonettes. The work was led by Equans and supported by funding from the Matrix Housing Partnership and the West Midlands Combined Authority.

Topics: Housing

Entities: Housing

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Clarion, Taylor Wimpey, mark Poplar homes progress

Clarion Housing Group and construction partner Taylor Wimpey, with project partners Equals Consulting, have marked the topping out of 116 new homes built for Tower Hamlets Council in Poplar, London.

Topics: Housing

Entities: Housing

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Perkins&Will to transform Oxford shops into labs

Perkins&Will has secured planning permission from Oxford City Council to redevelop Ozone Leisure Park as a mixed-use campus for research, leisure, and community, while preserving a 12th Century farmhouse.

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Morgan Sindall tops out Aylesbury school

Morgan Sindall Construction’s Northern Home Counties has topped out a £13m extension to The Kingsbrook School, built for Buckinghamshire Council through the Southern Construction Framework (SCF).

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Hyperion raises funds for robotic microfactories

Hyperion Robotics, a Finnish company developing AI-powered robotic microfactories, located close to project sites, which will produce infrastructure components faster and with less CO2 emissions, has secured funding for a new facility in Flixborough.

Topics: Infrastructure

Entities: Infrastructure

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Laing O'Rourke builds manufacturing capacity

Laing O'Rourke is investing in building capacity at its Crown House Technologies Manufacturing (CHtM) and Explore Manufacturing facilities, as it seeks to modernise its industrialised construction processes.

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Heidelberg takes the heat off power sector

Heidelberg has launched a range of products designed to support the energy sector, with high thermal conductivity and low resistivity, to allow heat to dissipate from high and ultra high voltage underground cables.

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Barratt Redrow promises £400m share buyback

Barratt Redrow, in a trading update announcing the completion of 17,667 homes in its 2026 financial year and profits before tax 'in line with expectations', has proposed to return £400m to shareholders.

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Helical proposes share buyback

Helical, sharing a trading update for the period from 1 April to 15 July 2026, has proposed to extend a share buyback programme, supported by recent sales and leasing agreements.

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Solomons announces partners for collaboration collective

Quantity surveyors Solomons Europe and NEC expert Dr Jon Broome have announced that AVRS and Meldrums will be partnering in a recently launched initiative, the Clause 10 Collective, focused on industry collaboration.

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JCB updates telematics

JCB has updated LiveLink, its telematics platform, with expanded safety and security functions, and new remote management features for its Hi-Viz Loadall telehandlers.