House-builder Redrow has announced eight apprenticeships available to students in the Thames Valley area. The successful applicants will work across developments including Badbury Park in Swindon.

More than half the new homes at a housing development near Corsham have now been built, with just six properties remaining for sale.

Growing building group Stonewood says it will continue its expansion in 2021 after finishing 2020 strongly with the launch of a new division and the opening of its fifth office.

The former boss of a family-run construction firm has stepped down at 70 years. Alan Beard was the third-generation head at the helm of Swindon-based Beard Construction – the company started by his grandfather and which continues to bear the family name.

Major construction projects were delivered on time and on budget despite the pandemic, half-year financial results from Swindon-based Beard show.

Family building company Stonewood is celebrating after winning a prestigious safety award and being praised for its rigorous approach to protecting workers on site.

The 48-year-old Wiltshire refurbishment specialist, part of the Stonewood Group, has won the Building Safety Group’s 2020 Member of the Year award for the Central and South Region.

Swindon-based builder Beard has successfully completed the construction of a stunning new two-storey library at St Mary’s School in Calne.

With construction in full swing when Covid-19 struck, the Beard team adopted a range of innovative practices to ensure that work could continue safely and that the project did not suffer, despite a reduced workforce on-site.

Building projects in Swindon and Wiltshire will benefit from £9.7 million of funding, the government has announced.

Prime minister Boris Johnson announced yesterday (Tuesday, August 4) that 300 ‘shovel-ready’ projects in England would receive a share of the Getting Building Fund – a £900 million investment to build homes and infrastructure and create jobs.

An ancient tradition dating back to the building of the pyramids marked a milestone in the building of a new village neighbourhood.

A tree branch was raised to the roof during the topping-out ceremony for the show home at the Somerbrook development in Great Somerford, watched by dozens of construction and office staff from builder Stonewood Partnerships.

Building work at a development bringing much-needed homes to a north Wiltshire village is back underway after a break because of the pandemic.

The show home at Somerbrook, a development of 38 homes on a four-acre site at Brook Farm on the edge of Great Somerford, is likely to be completed by the autumn and the rest of the neighbourhood, which will include ten affordable homes, is making steady progress.

The conversion of Swindon’s former GWR Carriage Works to create premises for the Royal Agricultural University’s Cultural Heritage Institute is continuing apace through the pandemic.

Last year, the Royal Agricultural University announced plans for a new postgraduate and professional training hub in Swindon to increase the number of trained professionals within the cultural heritage industries.

Construction firm Beard has been appointed preferred bidder on a £20 million project to extend and restructure the basement of Oxford University building Rhodes House.

The scheme at the home of the international scholarship programme The Rhodes Trust – which is used for conferences, weddings, and other events – will see three new basements created to allow for additional accommodation, increased office space, and a brand-new conference centre to host speakers and delegates from around the world.

Swindon-based construction firm Beard has earned British Standards Institution accreditation on three key measures of industry best practice.

The hat-trick of endorsements from the UK’s nationally recognised standards body comes in recognition of a company-wide commitment to drive ongoing improvement in quality management, reduce the firm’s environmental impact, and enforce the highest possible health-and-safety standards:

The coronavirus pandemic has not stopped housing developer Hills helping people move into their dream homes.

With sales offices and showhomes closed, Hills staff – many of whom are working remotely – are in close contact with external estate agents and conveyancers to complete committed sales.

Swindon-based construction firm Beard, whose work includes medical research facilities, special needs schools and MOD work, is continuing to operate on more than 90 per cent of its sites, despite the wave of closures that the industry has seen in response to the spread of Covid-19.

Beard has fully implemented the Site Operating Procedures drawn up by the Construction Leadership Council. This ensures that staff and subcontractors working on Beard sites are not exposed to unnecessary risk of infection.