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Pye Homes invited construction workers to join a wellness session highlighting the importance of mental health awareness to celebrate International Day of Yoga in June.

Through its parent company, Blenheim Palace, the housebuilder has appointed a wellbeing coach and trained psychotherapist to provide support regarding mental health concerns, as well as mentoring, coaching and training.

Historic England named Capital & Centric as the preferred developer to acquire over 1.2 hectares (3 acres) of brownfield land within the grounds of the historic Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings for residential development.

Built between 1796 and 1797, the Grade I-listed mill complex is the world’s first iron-framed building and is known as the grandparent of modern skyscrapers.

Schoolboy Finlay Gallagher became the UK’s youngest qualified digger driver at the age of 13.

Gallagher spent his school holidays learning how to put a JCB digger through its paces and passed his Construction Plant Competence Scheme exam with flying colours.

FM Conway and Transport for London have completed a “groundbreaking” trial to mix 50% recycled asphalt product (RAP) into the top layer of road surfaces at the A1 Mill Hill interchange.

The test combined both practical and laboratory testing to prove that recycled asphalt material meets the performance and durability level of traditional fresh asphalt mixes.

Sixty-two-year-old Mick Colley was presented with a Park Drive cigarette packet, a 10p coin and playing cards that he placed under the lead roofing of York’s Bootham Bar while working as an apprentice for the council in 1979.

Colley, who now works for Network Rail, said that he and his colleague Jack Summerville secreted the items as a “nod to the future”.

Sir Robert McAlpine achieved practical completion in August of its 56,500 sq metre 1 Broadgate office scheme in the City of London for clients British Land and GIC.

The project won the Delivering Sustainability with Digital Innovation category at the Digital Construction Awards 2024 for its use of materials passports.