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Manchester regeneration: How the £2bn Good Growth Fund is transforming the UK’s fastest growing city region

2026-04-20T06:00:00+01:00

The northern city region has grown at twice the rate of the rest of the country over the past decade after delivering a long-term regeneration vision. It is now looking to new mechanisms to share the wealth more evenly across the whole combined authority, Joey Gardiner reports

Women in Construction Special 2026

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  • The reinvention of Broadgate: Has it worked?

  • A quietly radical housing project: Metropolitan Workshop’s resident‑led Passivhaus scheme

  • Such buildings can change lives… Regenerating safe spaces that young people can call their own

  • From stranded asset to grade A office: how a facsimile facade made all the difference for a failing, listed Manchester building

  • Inside Hornsey Town Hall: a brilliantly conceived and highly sensitive – if mildly eccentric – restoration

  • Could 2026 be the start of a new stone age?

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Open Doors: Shaping London’s skyline

2026-04-09T06:00:00+01:00By

Build UK’s Open Doors event last month offered a behind-the-scenes look at Sir Robert McAlpine’s 2 Finsbury Avenue, the final building in British Land’s decade-long Broadgate redevelopment. Visitors explored the 36-storey office tower’s construction process

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Building Systems Thinking: A make or break moment for UK infrastructure

2026-04-02T07:00:00+01:00By Andrew Mylius

Achieving the government’s £725bn infrastructure strategy requires a host of complex challenges to be overcome, warns the Institution of Civil Engineers in its State of the Nation 2026 report

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Building Systems Thinking: An end to the blame game

2026-04-02T07:00:00+01:00By Emma Langman-Maher

Engineering education now embeds systems thinking to prepare graduates for complex challenges like decarbonisation, resilience, and the circular economy

  • TV and film studios cost model: How record investment is driving a development boom

  • Infrastructure update: Developing the UK’s flexible grid

  • Market forecast: Industry steadies, but high input costs show no signs of easing

  • Cost model: Converting office buildings to hotel use

  • Market forecast: Strong order books drive tender inflation as smaller firms struggle

  • Top 150 Contractors & Housebuilders 2025: The main table

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