LuckyPDF are four Peckham-based 25-year-olds who are as much curators or TV producers as they are artists. They set up live events, commission performance and video artists, and put the lot together in a format like a surreal TV programme, complete with presenters, graphic interludes and VT packages. Crucially, these events are also disseminated online via their own website and the creative video sharing network Vimeo, and are loudly trumpeted on Twitter and Facebook.

In a landmark case, the UK-wide Supreme Court has upheld the ruling made under Scottish law allowing victims of asbestos related illnesses to claim compensation. The case was taken to the Supreme Court by insurance companies trying to have the right to claim in Scotland scrapped, but to no avail.

The £13 million Tunnelling and Underground Construction Academy (TUCA) has welcomed its first students. The first training courses to be offered at the Academy include the Tunnel Safety Card, pre-requisite for anyone who will work below ground on Crossrail, and Construction Skills Certification Scheme health and safety card training. Vocational courses initially on offer are pre-cast concrete manufacture and tunnel operations training.

Chesterfield’s iconic Market Hall is now one step closer to its planned refurbishment after Chesterfield Borough Council’s planning committee approved the planning and listed building application. A construction programme is now being prepared in order that work can start in February 2012.

A rapidly expanding high technology company is to relocate its research, development and production headquarters to the recently announced AMS Technology Park in Burnley. Velocity Composites are a specialist engineering and supply chain company serving predominantly the aerospace composites industry and have seen a rapid growth in interest in their services in the North West over the past three years.

LONDON—Activity in the U.K.'s construction sector was all but stagnant in September as new orders fell, dragging down the pace of growth in other sub-sectors measured by an index published by Markit Tuesday.

A £1bn flagship government project for fighting climate change – the construction of a prototype carbon capture and storage (CCS) project at Longannet in Scotland – is on the verge of collapse, it emerged on Thursday.

The West Midlands Green Leaders have been revealed today in a bid to help the region successfully achieve its journey towards a low carbon economy and society by 2020.

SCHOOLCHILDREN across South Yorkshire have been returning to new buildings as a vast school rebuilding project continues in Sheffield and Barnsley. High Storrs School on Ringinglow Road is the latest school to be redeveloped by Vinci Construction UK as part of the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) project in Sheffield, which has already passed the halfway point.

Willmott Dixon has been appointed preferred bidder by Housing 21 for a £38 million contract to deliver five new elderly extra care facilities across Warwickshire. The contract is part of Housing 21's PPP arrangement with Warwickshire County Council that will see one of the UK's leaders in providing care, health and housing for older people responsible for constructing, maintaining and managing the five schemes over a 30 year period.