Kier Construction has won the job to revamp St Aldhelm’s Academy in Poole, Dorset with a bid of £9.8m. The new build and refurbishment project will transform the outdated 1930s’ school buildings into modern, purpose-built accommodation. Kier is working c...
MoreDeveloper Oakgate has gained planning for a sports stadium and retail development on the outskirts of York. It plans to rebuild Huntingdon Stadium using enabling funds from the development of two superstores at Monks Cross. The new 6,000 all-seater stadium w...
MoreRental giant A-Plant has placed orders for new equipment worth over £24m. The latest order follows on from the company’s £26m investment last September and forms the second phase of a major £60m for its hire fleet in 2011/12. The latest investment equips ...
MoreUnited House and Allied London have joined forces to lead the £100m regeneration of the Chrisp Street area in Poplar, east London. The partnership has been chosen as preferred developer following a procurement process by Poplar HARCA. The regeneration scheme ...
MoreBuilding works for a new neuroscience research centre in London will begin later this month, after Kier signed contracts worth over £70m. The Enquirer tipped the contractor for the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre building job last year, which will be located on th...
MoreLondon Borough of Croydon planners have given Hammerson the green light to redevelop the Centrale Shopping Centre. Revamp work on the 700,000 sq ft shopping centre could now start in early 2013 with the new leisure and restaurant quarter open in Autumn 2014. T...
MoreA Costain Skanska joint venture has won the latest £70m Crossrail contracts to build ventilation and access shafts in east London. Work will start on the C360 contracts at Eleanor Street and Mile End Park during the later half of this year. The Costain Skansk...
MoreEnergy giant EDF is delaying its decision on a winner for the massive £1.2bn civils package at Hinkley Point C nuclear power station for at least “a few weeks”. The Enquirer understands that the two main bidders led by Laing O’Rourke and Balfou...
MoreBalfour Beatty and Network Rail will unveil memorials today in honour of those who died during construction of the Forth Bridge. The event will mark completion of a ten-year contract by Balfour worth £130m to finally finish painting the famous bridge. Balfour...
MoreFormer workers at failed concrete firm O’Donnell Developments will miss out on £846,000 claims for notice and redundancy. According to the administrators there will all be insufficient funds to pay suppliers owed around £2.5m. The Birmingham concrete c...
MoreThe former Chief Executive Officer of Australian construction giant Leighton Holdings has joined Laing O’Rourke. David Stewart stepped down from his role at Leighton last year after 25 years at the firm. He has now joined O’Rourke in a senior execu...
MoreFootball weekends don’t get much bigger than this. London’s finest will battle it out for their rightful place on the biggest stage of all. While Chelsea have also got a fairly important match over in Germany. The biggest game financially is of cou...
MoreBirse Civils has been confirmed as winner of a £26m contract to build all the roads and technical infrastructure at Center Parcs new holiday development at Woburn. The deal involves major infrastructure works within a forest habitat and includes the delivery ...
MoreMerseyside building services contractor McGoff & Vickers has been placed in administration. Bootle-based McGoff & Vickers traces it history back to 1925 and ranks as one of longest established building services contractors on Merseyside. The £10m turn...
MoreOlympic aquatics centre designer Zaha Hadid has hit out at London 2012 organisers for not inviting her to the Games. Hadid’s £269m aquatics centre is one of the Olympic Park’s most distinctive venues. But the architect has revealed she won’t...
MoreThe Government is falling well short in tackling the country’s burgeoning housing crisis, leading housing groups have warned. Latest Government figures out today show annual housing starts totalled 104,970 in the 12 months to March 2012, down by 6% on the sa...
MoreA jury has ruled that the death of an 11-month-old baby killed by a falling lamp post was accidental. Coroner Elizabeth Pygott said it was the only possible conclusion after hearing details of the death of Tommy Hollis, in west London. She added the verdict ...
MoreLondon housing developer Berkeley has emerged as the preferred bidder to buy the huge News International site at Wapping in East London. The former home of the Sun, Times and Sunday Times is one of the biggest development opportunities in London. It is underst...
MoreGalliford Try has confirmed it has been awarded an £80m contract to construct the A380 South Devon Link Road for Devon County Council and Torbay Council. The Enquirer tipped the contractor as the winner of the big 5km dual carriageway contract last week. The ...
MoreDeveloper CLS Holdings has gained planning for its 210,000 sq ft hotel and student flats project in Vauxhall, London. The Spring Mews projects is currently out to tender with Bam, Shepherd, Vinci, Sir Robert McAlpine, Ocon and Watkins Jones in the chase for th...
MoreBalfour Beatty has confirmed 650 staff will be made redundant as part of a restructuring and efficiency drive at its UK Construction Services business. The cuts will come from back office staff among the 12,000-strong workforce rather than project delivery an...
MoreLand Securities is promising to build “the right spaces in the right locations” as it continues to see development opportunities despite the tough economic conditions. The firm confirmed its development pipeline during annual results today which sa...
MoreHM Revenue & Customs is continuing its crack-down on self-employed tradespeople following the conviction of a plumber who dodged paying £80,000 in tax. Peter Mack, 59, of Ringwood set up his own freelance plumbing business in 1997 but never registered h...
MoreA fire broke out yesterday at the Stornoway yard of the Scottish contractor UBC which went into administration last week with the loss of nearly 240 jobs. A team of eleven firefighters tackled the blaze at the site in Lewis. The fire damaged two blocks of temp...
MoreA woman has been airlifted to hospital after she was hit by a metal site hoarding which fell from an academy job in Kidderminster yesterday. The victim was struck by the 6ft by 7ft site perimeter fencing panel when it fell in high winds. Main contractor on th...
MoreA planning application has been submitted for a 1,200 homes development on the site of a former colliery near Doncaster. Harworth Estates, the property arm of UK Coal, plans to build up to 1,200 homes, community buildings, hotel, restaurant and new primary...
MoreMiller has won the £22m design and build contract for a new emergency care centre at the Gateshead Queen Elizabeth Hospital. The contract was awarded by Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust through the ProCure 21+ Framework. Work will start on site in Octob...
MoreLovell has been a 10-year-deal worth £50m by the Accord Group to repair housing across the Midlands. Accord provides 11,000 affordable homes across the region and Lovell will undertake day-to-day repairs and provide a 24-hour reactive repairs service to prop...
MoreBovis Homes is the latest house builder to report a sharp rise in sales in the first part of the year. The firm today said net reservations so far this year to mid May were up 33% at 589 homes. Including previous forward sales and social homes, total sales are...
MoreTransport for London chiefs fear the new cable car linking two Olympic venues across the Thames will not be open in time for the Games. Doubts over a firm opening date came as design-and-build contractor Mace started full testing yesterday on the £50m project...
MoreJoseph Rowntree Housing Trust is looking for a developer or contractor to build up to 130 homes at Derwenthorpe, York. The scheme will consist of a mix of private and affordable affordable housing which will be purchased and managed by the Trust. It is est...
MoreKent County Council has mistakenly paid out £21,398 in allowances over a seven month period to a maintenance fitter with the same name as council leader Paul Carter. The fitter has now left the country leaving the council unable to reclaim the cash. The mai...
MoreLend Lease’s boss of Europe, the Middle East and Africa Dan Labbard has been promoted to chief operating officer of the global business. The firm will now start the search for a new chief executive officer of the EMEA region. His relocation to Sydney la...
MoreHigh speed railway promoter HS2 has awarded two design contracts to Parsons Brinckerhoff covering railway systems design services. The first contract, valued at £4.3m, covers the design of the high speed rail systems for Phase 1 of the project, from London to...
MoreThe McGee Group has seen turnover surge as its recovery strategy continues to pay dividends. The Wembley based contractor saw revenue rise to £91.7m for the year to November 30 2011 from £58.8m last time. The company warned that margins are still under press...
MoreSteve Morgan’s stake in house builder Redrow has grown to more than 40% following a right’s issue. The house builder unveiled plans to raise £80m last month through a share issue that was to be underwritten by Morgan’s own company, Bridgmere...
MoreA Northamptonshire contractor has been fined after a six-tonne dumper truck ran over a worker’s foot. Self-employed ground worker Ross Smith, 23, was helping to build a roadway at a construction site on Wolsey Way, Lincoln, on 11 March 2011 when the mac...
MoreLocal subcontractors looking to win work on the £80m police Avon and Somerset Police Accommodation PFI Project are being invited to an open day next week to meet the main contractors. The event is being organised by Miller Construction and Cofely who are part...
MoreThe University of Newcastle has awarded Graham Construction a £13m contract to build student accommodation in the city. Demolition work starts this month on the project at Kensington & Park Terrace, which will eventually provide rooms for 345 students. Bu...
MoreThe Co-Operative Insurance Society is looking for a contractor to build a new mixed-use development at the eastern end of London’s famous Oxford Street. Work will involve demolishing the existing buildings at 149 and 151 Oxford St in the Soho Conservatio...
MoreRoyal Mail group plans to redevelop half of its London sorting office site with a 1m sq ft residential-led scheme. It has commissioned architect Sir Terry Farrell to design the high-rise scheme on around 6 acres at Mount Pleasant in Clerkenwell. It is one of a...
MoreEnergy giant EDF is expected to pick a winner next week for the massive £1.2bn civils package at Hinkley Point C nuclear power station. Two bids led by Laing O’Rourke and Balfour Beatty are left in the race for the job which will employ 1,500 workers. O...
MoreA McNicholas worker who cut the metal support on a lamp post which fell onto a baby boy has told the inquest he wished he would have died in the accident instead. Tommy Hollis died a day before his first birthday after the lamp post smashed on to his buggy as...
MoreMinisters have today approved £10m of funding for the redevelopment of Castle railway station in Northampton. Together with funding from Network Rail and Northamptonshire County Council the Government’s contribution will go towards the £25m phase one of th...
MoreBAM Construct has been confirmed as builder of four new school and academy jobs worth more than £30m. The firm’s latest wins are: Berryfields Primary and Nursery School in Buckinghamshire worth £6.5m. Construction will start in June and is due for comp...
MoreContractors bidding to rebuild the Olympic stadium have been reassured that further delays finding the venue’s future tenant will not impact on the construction programme. The London Legacy Development Corporation today said it was extending the deadline...
MoreWelsh Councils will be allowed to borrow £60m to fund road repairs this year. The money is being provided by the Welsh Government under a 22-year “mortgage-style” agreement to help offset cuts in public spending. Over the next three years it is pr...
MorePeabody has submitted plans for the £120m regeneration of St John’s Hill Estate, near Clapham Junction station in south west London. Nine 5-storey residential blocks built by Peabody in 1936, along with two lodge buildings will be demolished to make way fo...
MoreSpanish construction giant FCC will open its new UK headquarters in the City of London shortly as it continues to expand in the UK market. Latest results from FCC showed that more than half of its total revenue of £2bn during the first quarter of this year ca...
MoreTwo Leicestershire contractors were together fined £130,000 after a worker was killed when a lorry overturned onto the mini digger has was operating. Richard Kenny, 48, was killed instantly when a tipper lorry suddenly overturned on uneven ground while delive...
MoreConsultant Driver has bought construction dispute specialist Trett Consulting for £3m. Trett was part of Grontmij and had a turnover of £14m last year. The firm specialises in dispute management and resolution and operates out of UK offices in London, Leeds ...
MoreBouygues-owned contractor Leadbitter has clinched the job to regenerate the Havelock Estate in Southall, London. The firm is working with Catalyst Housing, which Ealing Council has chosen as it partner housing association to deliver the £196m redevelopment o...
MoreEighty firefighters were needed to tackle a blaze on Friday night at a factory which makes safety products for the construction industry. Oxford Plastics manufacturers a range of site safety products including barriers, cones and traffic signs. The fire broke ...
MoreWest Northamptonshire Development Corporation is looking for a development partner to steer the regeneration of the Avon Nunn Mills site. The 20 hectare site overlooks the River Nene and historic parkland and forms part of the Northampton Waterside Enterprise ...
MoreAdministrators running Inverness-based contractor UBC Group are making nearly 240 of the firm’s 277-strong workforce redundant. Administrator Zolfo Cooper has shut down the group and all of its sites and is now only holding out hope for a buyer for the W...
MoreNorth-west social housing procurement consortium Procure Plus has named 34 contractors for its new build brokerage framework. The framework, which is designed to be used by social housing landlords in the region, has been carved up into five lots based on proj...
MoreA metal thief got a real shock when he cut through a live power cable at a Lovell housing site in West Lothian. Lothian and Borders Police are now appealing for witnesses following the explosion on Wednesday night. Inspector Ian Moffat said: “We are stil...
MoreChartered surveyors are the latest profession to report a recovery in construction. The RICS Construction Market Survey showed industry activity edging-up during the first quarter of this year. The findings fly in the face of official construction output data ...
MoreThe Environment Agency is inviting firms to bid for its northern minor works framework. Up to 16 firms are needed to sign up to the work programme, which has been tailored for smaller civil engineering firms. Each package will typically be worth up to £250,00...
MoreThe official slump in construction is even grimmer than feared after the Office for National Statistics revised its industry output figures downwards today. The original ONS estimate for output during the first quarter was a 3% fall compared to the previous th...
MoreA joint venture between British Land and Tesco has gained planning permission for a 110,000 sq ft extension to a shopping complex in South East London. The partners also plan to extensively refurbish the 309,000 sq ft existing shopping centre at Canada Water ...
MoreNorfolk based structural steel specialist Newnham & Abel has gone into administration. The firm has been supplying steel to the construction industry since 1973 and has worked for a host of major contractors including Mansell, Kier and Morgan Ashurst. Newn...
MoreKier has won a £50m contract to build 625 lodges at Center Parc’s new development at the Warren Wood Forest Village, near Woburn. The contract for the lodges has been tendered separately from the main construction package on the £250m development which...
MoreOne man is to blame for sinking Betting Spy’s pre-season double on Manchester United and Barcelona. Both teams were bolted-on winners without the influence of Yaya Toure. City would have been nowhere near winning the league without Toure while a Barcelon...
MoreOff-site manufacturing specialist Premier Interlink (Waco UK Ltd) has been awarded an £8m contract for three new school buildings by Leeds City Council. The three modular buildings will provide 3,380 square metres of accommodation to the Roundhay, Bracken Edg...
MoreA £50m penthouse is among the ten homes currently being fitted-out at the top of the Shard. Private flats will occupy floors 53 to 65 of London’s tallest tower with the penthouse situated 735ft above ground level. Full details of the luxury homes have n...
MoreThe director of a fire safety specialist has been handed a suspended prison sentence and ordered to do community service for falsely claiming to be accredited by the Electrical Contractors’ Association. Julian Price, director of Cotswold Fire Group (CFG)...
MoreA London housing association has got the planning go-ahead for its controversial plan to build homes at the iconic Walthamstow greyhound stadium. Walthamstow Forest Council approved the plan by social landlord London and Quadrant to build 294 homes, a nursery...
MoreCouncils across Wales are looking for building materials suppliers for a four-year framework worth £4m. The deal covers a vast range of materials including paints, screws, locks, hinges, mastics, fillers, cladding and putty. The consortium of Welsh councils w...
MoreThe country’s largest house builder is scaling up its London operation to meet soaring housing demand. Barratt has snapped up land on seven sites to build 1,400 homes so far this year. It has also started work on 11 new sites or new phases on existing si...
MoreGalliford Try has won the contract to build the £109m Kingskerswell Bypass in south Devon, given final approval by the Department for Transport this week. The Kingskerswell Bypass was one of 20 schemes given initial approval in the Chancellor’s Autumn State...
MoreMorgan Sindall and Kier are believed to be the last two contractors battling it out for the £20m job to modernise Manchester Victoria station. The project will see the winning contractor install a huge ETFE roofing canopy across the station concourse as well...
MoreMain contractor Bowmer and Kirkland and consulting engineer Bingham Davis have been found guilty of breaking safety laws following a crane collapse in Liverpool which left the driver paralysed. Both firms will be sentenced at Liverpool Crow Court on Friday fo...
MoreBowmer & Kirkland will build a £20m research and development centre for synthetic diamond specialist Element Six near Oxford. Construction will now start at the Global Innovation Centre at Harwell which is due to be completed by spring 2013. Element Six s...
MoreBam Nuttall is having to work overtime to get back on schedule to prepare Jaguar Land Rover’s new engine plant site in Staffordshire. Weeks of heavy rain have delayed the 12-week earthworks package at the site being carried out by Bam Nuttall. The site p...
MorePrivate builder Bowmer & Kirkland has delivered strong profit growth despite stiff competition for work. The firm, which counts the country’s major supermarkets among its clients, said contractor investment in projects helped to secure orders in one ...
MoreShepherd is looking to cut the cost of school construction work by up to 40% with a new initiative launched in the wake of the James Review. Shepherd will save money via its new ‘Options’ package by pooling the resources and expertise of its operat...
MoreSimons Group has fought-off stiff competition to win the £10m contract to rebuild a leisure pool at Butlins holiday park in Skegness. Main construction work will start next month with a 100-strong site team due to finish the scheme by 2013. Simons beat rival ...
MoreMorgan Sindall and Bam Construct have returned final tenders for the £40m sceond phase of Bradford College’s city centre campus. Work on the 230,000 sq ft building is due to start this summer so the new building can be opened by September 2014. The new ...
MoreBalfour Beatty declined to confirm the scale of job losses planned at the UK business in a long-awaited trading up date to the city today. The industry is rife with speculation that the final job cut total will be 500-600 as staff remain under consultation abo...
MoreBedford contractor SDC Builders has just started the first phase of Cambridge University’s sports centre. The £16m domed complex will contain a main sports hall, a weights room, five squash courts and a fitness suite. The University is providing a loan of ...
MoreThe University of Southampton is looking for a contractor to build a £20m student accommodation block. The series of four-storey blocks at the university’s Glen Eyre Halls complex will contain 350 student study bedrooms. Between five and eight firms wil...
MoreCarillion has confirmed 1,180 people have been made redundant at its energy services business. The redundancies follow Carillion’s announcement late last year that it planned to shed 1,500 jobs in the wake of the government’s cuts to feed-in tariff...
MoreDevelopment work will start on six major Highways Agency road improvement schemes across the country. Roads minister Mike Penning said the schemes will ensure a pipeline of future Highways Agency major improvement work. But construction will not get underway ...
MoreA group of six east London councils have named the contractors they intend to use for mainly school building work over the next four years. The East London Solutions procurement group, which includes the London Boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Newha...
MoreProspects for contractors are dividing in two camps with building work stuck in the doldrums and civil engineering on a slow but sure recovery. The industry’s latest combined construction state of trade survey shows workloads are still subdued overall a...
MoreSpanish contracting giant Ferrovial is reported to be in advanced talks to buy housing maintenance and utility contractor Enterprise. Enterprise’s venture capital owners 3i are understood to be on the verge of closing a deal with Ferrovial, which owns Am...
MoreWhitehall departments are set to smash the Prime Minister’s ambition to release previously-used public land for building the homes. Housing Minister Grant Shapps said enough surplus public land has now been identified to build up to 102,000 homes. This m...
MoreDeveloper Terrace Hill updated the City on three new supermaket schemes today detailing its “strong progress” in the foodstore sector. Work will start on a 41,000 sq ft Asda supermarket in Skelton, East Cleveland following the dismissal of a chall...
MoreDeveloper Terrace Hill updated the City on three new supermaket schemes today detailing its “strong progress” in the foodstore sector. Work will start on a 41,000 sq ft Asda supermarket in Skelton, East Cleveland following the dismissal of a chall...
MoreHalton and Warrington borough councils are teaming-up in a joint procurement race for a £70m highways maintenance contract. The councils are hoping to appoint a single contractor for both areas with work evenly split over the six year deal between the two aut...
MoreA construction worker has smuggled a fake Semtex “bomb” into the Olympics to highlight security flaws on the Stratford site. The builder brought the device onto the 2012 site in the cab of his digger just hours before the main Olympic Stadium held ...
MoreFive contractors are believed to be in the hunt to build the £110m Wear Bridge in Sunderland. Construction information specialist Glenigan has the list of bidders as Balfour Beatty, Vinci, Skanska, Ferrovial and Graham Construction. The local council confirme...
MoreChelsea FC has submitted an offer to buy Battersea Power Station and build a 60,000-seater new stadium on the site. The club is working with property development partner Almacantar in its bid to acquire the 39-acre Battersea site. Chelsea face competition for...
MoreInterserve has paid £17.5m for a training company which helps the unemployed find work across Yorkshire. The acquisition of Business Employment Services Training Limited (BEST) strengthens the company’s presence in the public sector market. BEST has a t...
MoreAn amnesty for electricians to declare any unpaid tax bills end on May 15. HM Revenue & Customs will only receive 10% penalties on outstanding amounts if they come clean before the cut-off date. Sparks found owing tax after the deadline will be hit with pe...
MoreCivil engineers have reported the first growth in preliminary works since the recession started. Site preparation for building projects started to rise and helped firms record overall growth in the civil engineering sector for the second consecutive quarter. T...
MoreLend Lease has started the search for firms to fill specialist subcontractor packages on its £35m Imperial War Museum upgrade. The expansion and revamp of the famous London museum will take place ahead of the centenary of the First World War. The first packag...
MoreWorld top five-ranked cladding contractor Far East Global Group has set up a base in London to target work in the UK and Europe. Subsidiary Far East Facade (UK) is run by managing director Peter Walker who has cherry picked leading names in the cladding indus...
MoreInterserve is understood to have driven off with the contract to build Jaguar Land Rover’s engine plant in Staffordshire. The Midlands based contractor is understood to have edged out rivals Bowmer & Kirkland and Vinci Construction in the chase, a so...
MoreWorkers repairing Brunel’s twin span bridge in Plymouth have called on train passengers to resist the call of nature as they pass over the historic structure. Contract workers from scaffolding and painting specialists Taziker Industries working below the...
MoreBalfour Beatty is the main contractor at a “meet the buyer” event next week for firms looking to win work on the £736m Humber Gateway wind farm project. Energy giant E.On is organising the event to highlight opportunities for suppliers on the job ...
MoreSurely the title will finally be decided this weekend after a crazy couple of months which have seen both sides of Manchester fluctuate between despair and ecstasy on an almost weekly basis. Even great managers get it wrong sometimes. And Sir Alex Ferguson mus...
MoreMorgan Sindall is looking to expand in the roads, rail, aviation and energy distribution sectors as other areas of the construction market remain “highly competitive”. The firm is keeping a tight reign on costs and overheads in its construction and...
MoreWorkloads are picking-up among specialist contractors as nearly half of firms reported an increase in enquiries during the first quarter of this year. The latest NSCC trade survey showed 44% of specialists enjoyed an increase in enquiries in the first quarter ...
MoreDerbyshire Country Council is preparing to contract out its extra care provision to a consortium for the next 50 years. The deal will see the winning bidder commit to building an extra 800 extra care facilities and operating them for 25 years, with the option ...
MoreBalfour Beatty has been named as preferred bidder to build an extension of the Midland Metro through Birmingham city centre. Operator Centro has awarded the deal in the latest stage of a £127m expansion of the network between Birmingham and Wolverhampton. Ba...
MoreStudent accommodation specialist Downing has confirmed start dates for two schemes in London and Cambridge worth £90m. In Acton, west London, Downing will develop an 80,000 sq ft scheme featuring 184 studio apartments in two seven-storey towers wo...
MoreLeeds City Council is looking for a contractor to carry out strengthening and repairs to the A58 Woodhouse Tunnel. The Woodhouse Tunnel is suffering severe concrete damage and deterioration as a result of prolonged, extensive chloride ingress from winter de...
MoreA £21m construction contract aimed at regenerating parts of east Belfast has been terminated after months of wrangling. Joint venture partners Galliford Try and SIAC stopped work last year when they had a disagreement with Belfast City Council about how the c...
MoreHertfordshire County Council is looking for a contractor to help build a new £80m extension to the Metropolitan Line in Watford. The Croxley Rail Link will be an extension of the London Underground Metropolitan line from Croxley, to Watford Junction via Watfo...
MoreContractor Robertson North East will start work two West Cumbria health projects after they reached financial close today. The two community health centres are together worth £19m and are being delivered through the NHS Express LIFT programme. Sweett Group, w...
MoreScarborough Development Group has been granted planning approval for the redevelopment of the Cambrian Centre in Newport. The developer has secured consent for a 77,000 sq ft office development that will be home to motor insurance firm Admiral. The developer ...
MoreCITB -ConstructionSkills is committing £2m to train workers for the new nuclear build programme. CITB chairman James Wates confirmed the cash injection at a meeting with ministers and members of the Nuclear Energy Skills Alliance yesterday. Eight new nuclear ...
MoreTolent Construction has bagged the contract to build a multiplex Vue cinema at Hammerson’s Manor Walks Shopping Centre in Cramlington. Hammerson’s extension includes a nine-screen cinema, combined with family restaurants and cafes. Tolent, beat B&a...
MoreVinci Construction UK has been named preferred contractor on developer Iliad’s East Village, Liverpool The £10m multi-storey student accommodation project in Liverpool consists of 261 student rooms, comprising of 225 flats of 4-6 en-suite rooms. This proje...
MoreSocial housing landlord Circle Housing Group plans to hand its national asbestos removal programme to just three removal specialists. It expects to spend £30 with the three firms over the course of 10-years. Each firm will operate in its own region covering e...
MoreEdinburgh Council is seeking a house builder to deliver around 800 new homes at a cost of £80m. The project is the second phase of the council’s 21st century homes programme, which aims to build up to 1,400 homes for sale and rent across the Scottish capita...
MoreConstruction buyers reported a continued recovery last month despite growth slowing down on March figures which saw new orders increasing at their fastest rate for four-and-a-half year. The Markit/CIPS Construction Purchasing Managers’ Index for April dipp...
MoreRay O’Rourke is caught up in a planning row with his local council after being denied planning permission to demolish his own home. The Laing O’Rourke chairman is appealing against a decision by Brentwood Borough Council to stop him rebuilding his ...
MoreSenior treasury officials have failed to turn up for a series of meeting designed to improve the way major public construction projects are delivered. The snub was revealed by the National Audit Office today in its report into the Major Projects Authority whic...
MoreLaing O’Rourke is closing down its utilities operation at St Neots in Cambridgeshire. The move will see utilities work concentrated in Dartford and Manchester as the St Neots office is dedicated to the company’s Select Plant business. The move has ...
MoreCrossrail has unveiled its shortlist for the design, installation and commissioning of its £25m central section Traction Power system. Work will involve construction of feeder stations to convert power from the national grid for Crossrail overhead lines. The...
MoreBam Nuttal has filed a counterclaim in an acrimonious dispute over construction of the Cambridge guided busway. The contractor is facing a £60m claim from Cambridgeshire County Council for delays and cost overruns on £151m project. But Bam alleges that consu...
MoreDeveloper Grosvenor has unveiled plans to develop a sporting village and a new stadium that will be the new home of Cambridge United FC. The developer and its local partner Wrenbridge have commissioned Studio Egret West to design the 8,000 seater community sta...
MoreRedrow has restarted work on a 21-storey tower next to the City of London which has been mothballed for three-and-a-half years. The tower above Aldgate East underground station was a high-profile victim of the credit crunch when work stopped in October 2008. B...
MoreGalliford Try Infrastructure is understood to be on board as the main contractor for a £44m reservoir and water treatment work scheme near Lincoln. The scheme would see water taken from the River Trent and stored in a new 230m-litre reservoir west of the A113...
MoreBalfour Beatty Regional Civil Engineering has bagged contracts totalling £143 million in the first quarter of 2012, 13% more than the same period last year. The contracts include work with both new customers and repeat business with existing customers. BBRCE ...
MoreThe Competition Commission has ruled that Tarmac owner Anglo American and Lafarge must sell a large chunk of their operations before a proposed joint venture in the UK can go ahead. The move will see another major player enter the domestic cement market to he...
MoreThe owners of what was once Birmingham’s most iconic hotel have gained planning for a £30m scheme to restore the building to its former glory. The Grand on Colmore Row will be transformed into a luxury hotel with 152 rooms and eight new suites under plans b...
MoreA contractor has been fined after a worker was killed by a falling piece of wall dislodged by his own son during a botched demolition job. Agency workers Jamie Ford 24 and his father, Stephen Ford, 50, were working under the control of contractor Do It Al to ...
MoreIrish building contractor Manley Construction has opened its first UK office in Manchester. The third generation family-owned business from County Meath in Ireland has set its sights on winning work in the UK, and has just landed a place of the Procure Plus N...
MoreA construction company owned by the chairman of Nuneaton Town FC has fallen into administration. Ian Neale Building Contractors is now in the hands of administrator Poppleton & Appleby. Creditors are believed to be owed more than £750,000. The firm is par...
MoreCity & Guilds has signed up Willmott Dixon to create its new head office in Clerkenwell, London. The project will see Willmott Dixon demolish a six storey building behind a retained façade at 5-7 Giltspur Street before starting on a . steel-frame seven-st...
MoreResearchers at Northumbria University are developing a cure for concrete cancer which could stop buildings developing cracks. The research team are developing ‘self-healing’ concrete and a repair mortar which can be used on existing buildings. Dr Alan Rich...
MoreKeepmoat has confirmed 200 redundancies following its merger with Apollo. The job losses will be concentrated in back-office operations like IT and finance. The redundancies will see the current 3,500-strong workforce reduced to 3,300. Construction Enquirer »...
MoreSubcontractors and suppliers are being invited to an open day in Northumberland next week to win work on projects including Sir Robert McAlpine’s new contract to build a £100m factory for AkzoNobel. Other contractors at the event looking for new supply ...
MoreConstruction on a contract won by Osborne to build a £5.8m footbridge in West Sussex has been delayed as the council tries to cut costs on the project. Osborne was due to start work on the new Shoreham Footbridge this spring. But the project is on hold becaus...
MoreOperating margins across Bam’s civils and building operations took a tumble last year as competition for work intensified. Building arm Bam Construct saw profits plunge a third to £11.5m, depressing margins to 1.2% compared to 1.6% in 2010. Turnover al...
MoreThe University of Birmingham has submitted plans for the £175m expansion of its historic Edgbaston campus. A key element of the new proposals includes building a 50m swimming pool and new library. The plans, which will be funded by the university and alumni d...
MoreAnother Edinburgh City Council official has been sacked as an investigation into an alleged £30m housing repairs scam continues. The senior staff member was caught asking a private maintenance contractor to pay money towards a holiday. But the builder refused...
MoreNetwork Rail has unveiled details of its next major station redevelopment at Bristol Temple Meads. A high-level feasibility study is currently being carried out to determine the economic benefits of the plan to transform Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s iconic ...
MoreA sharp slowdown in the sale of construction materials during the first quarter of the year has added weight to GDP figures showing a 3% fall in industry output. Latest figures from the Mineral Products Association show a substantial reduction in sales of aggr...
MoreAnglian Water and Severn Trent are pressing ahead with plans for major reservoirs projects worth together around £74m. Anglian Water gained planning permission to build a new £44m reservoir and water treatment works near to Newton-on-Trent yesterday. Constr...
MoreKier has bought the construction operations of Aberdeen-based house builder Stewart Milne for £1m. The deal will see 20 staff transfer to Kier together with contracts in progress worth £15m and a pipeline of potential future work valued at approximately ...
MoreTrade creditors of failed Bristol-based contractor All Mass Cladding Systems will be out of pocket to the tune of £2.5m. The administrators have warned that unsecured trade creditors will not see a penny of the cash they are owed. The news is a big blow for K...
MoreSurveying and technology specialist Trimble has bought Google’s 3D modeling tool Sketch-Up to boost its offering in the growing BIM market. The Sketch-Up platform is used by millions of design professionals in construction, architecture and engineering t...
MoreTwenty jobs have been lost at industrial cladding specialist Colourclad after it fell into administration. Corporate recovery specialist Beever and Struthers has been appointed administrator to the Warrington-based company after it fell victim to the collapse...
MoreEdinburgh city councillors have finally approved the building of a £41.5m school despite an ongoing legal battle over the land. Campaigners delayed the signing of a contract between the council and Balfour Beatty after launching legal action claiming the coun...
MoreLaing O’Rourke and Sir Robert McAlpine are the only two left in the race to rebuild the former Middlesex Hospital site in Fitzrovia, London. The Enquirer understands developer Exemplar Properties has reduced the race for the high-profile job to the remai...
MoreThe managing director of an East Yorkshire contractor has been crushed to death under the trailer of a 3.5 tonne truck. Wold Construction managing director Ian Woolfitt was found under the truck at a haulage yard on Tuesday. Wold Construction safety adviser An...
MoreI doubt irony plays a major role in the pampered dressing room of your average Premiership football club. Certainly not at Chelsea where John Obi Mikel is still fuming about the red card handed out to John Terry on Tuesday. Mikel was outraged at the behaviour ...
MoreBrighton & Hove Albion FC have been granted planning permission to boost the capacity of American Express Community Stadium to 30,750 in two phases. Construction will create 200 jobs with the first 5,000 extra-seat phase ready for the start of next season...
MoreWillmott Dixon and Notting Hill Housing Trust have parted company on a five year maintenance contract just eight months into the £45m deal. The Trust told the Enquirer: “Willmott Dixon Partnerships Limited (WDP) and Notting Hill Housing Trust (NHHT) hav...
MoreMitie Group has signed one of the country’s biggest private client facilities management deals with Lloyds Banking Group. The contract, signed for a five year term, has a possible one year extension period, and is worth £155m a year. Mitie will offer co...
MoreThe Government has updated the construction pipeline last published in November 2011 alongside the National Infrastructure Plan and the infrastructure investment pipeline. The Government funded construction pipeline published today includes over 600 projec...
MoreKent builder Unicorn Services has been fined £20,000 for repeatedly ignoring safety warnings about a site in Croydon. Westminster Magistrates’ Court fined for blatantly ignoring HSE enforcement notices at the site in Upper Norwood which was described as a ...
MoreContracts for the first site to be unlocked through the £570m Get Britain Building Programme have been exchanged. Crest Nicholson will deliver the first site under the programme designed to accelerate the delivery of 15,000 homes by December 2014. The Crest...
MoreTransport for London officials have dismissed reports of a partial tunnel collapse on a stretch of the Bakerloo Line on the London Underground. Problems on the line between Embankment and Waterloo have caused severe disruption to commuters this morning with se...
MoreNow we all know what it feels like on the naughty step. The country has fallen into a double-dip recession and the finger is being pointed at a collapse in construction as a prime cause of the latest woes. It’s hardly a shock to anyone in the industry th...
MoreBalfour Beatty has clinched the job to refurbish and reclad Guy’s hospital tower in London. Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust aims to refurbish and reclad the exterior of the 34-storey tower located next to the Shard construction site. The exten...
MoreModular building specialist Premier Interlink has bought the intellectual property rights of failed rival Britspace. Britspace went under last summer with the loss of 200 jobs after administrators failed to find a buyer for the firm. But Premier Interlink, whi...
MoreContractor Kier will start work on Sheffield City Centre’s flagship new market and retail scheme this June. Kier Construction will build a new indoor market hall as part of a larger retail development for the Council and Scottish Widows Investment Property P...
MoreFamily Mosaic and Rydon have won the bid race to redevelop East London’s Queen Elizabeth Children’s Hospital into homes. Following the agreement with the Greater London Assembly, Rydon’s development team will produce a detailed planning appl...
MoreBalfour Beatty has won the contract to build a new rail terminal capable of handling the longest trains in the UK at DP World’s London Gateway. Balfour will build the first of three rail terminals and double track the branch line to the new deep-sea containe...
MoreA row of six parked cars has been crushed during a scaffold collapse at a hotel being renovated in Portsmouth. Strong winds are believed to have brought down the five storey scaffold at The Royal Beach Hotel. The scaffold was in place for the hotel to be repai...
MoreThe Federation of Master Builders is urging the Government to let construction lead growth in the economy as latest figures show the industry dragging GDP down into recession. Brian Berry Chief Executive of the FMB said: “Steps the Government could take now ...
MoreISG has won the project to create two new cinema auditoriums at the Barbican arts centre in London. ISG will convert the existing exhibition hall 2 into the new cinema spaces and carry out major alterations to the building’s façade to create a new street le...
MoreThe Highways Agency has started tendering its area 8 assets support contract. The successful contractor will provide integrated network management, maintenance, incident management and contingency planning on trunk roads and motorways in the area. Works includ...
MoreThe UK economy has plunged back into recession according to latest Government figures for GDP released this morning. The 0.2% fall in GDP in the first quarter of the year sinks the UK into its first double dip recession since the seventies and raises pressure ...
MoreConstruction work will start later this year on an extensionto to the new terminal at London Southend Airport. Rochford council gave the green light to plans yesterday for a 90-metre extension to the terminal which became operational in February. The number of...
MoreThe University of Chester is on the hunt for firm to design and build a 196-bed student block at its campus. The university’s orginal plan failed to get planning permission last year on grounds of design and appearance. A revised scheme was submitted in ...
MorePlymouth City Council has chosen a preferred bidder for an £83m revamp of the Pavilions leisure centre. Plans now being drawn-up by Akkeron Leisure include a new arena and four-star hotel. Akkeron chairman James Brent is also owner of Plymouth Argyle FC. The ...
MoreThe American subsidiary of Lend Lease has admitted overcharging for public construction work in New York and will pay £35m in fines and compensation. The firm was known as Bovis Lend Lease at the time of the fraud between 1999 and 2009. Prosecutors said the c...
MoreClimate change minister Greg Barker was heckled over the Green Deal at a Construction Products Association lunch today. Barker was main speaker at the Dorchester Hotel event and received a rough ride from his construction industry audience. One guest told the ...
MoreHousing minister Grant Shapps has called on the housing industry to raise design standards to win over local communities to new housing schemes. He also plans to give communities a greater say in design and announced plans for a Government and industry Housing...
MoreLondon Underground has confirmed the four bidding groups shortlisted for the £500m revamp of Bank Station in the City of London. The quartet in the hunt are: BFK Joint Venture (BAM Nuttall, Ferrovial SA & Kier) CVC Joint Venture (Costain, VINCI Gr...
MoreA £5m contract is up for grabs to refurbish a south London school destroyed by fire. The Haberdashers’ Aske’s Temple Grove school in New Cross went up in flames in April 2010 destroying the roof and damaging the whole building. It is believed the ...
MoreRegeneration specialist Muse has been selected by Rolls-Royce as its development partner on a new mixed-use scheme in the East Midlands. Muse will work alongside Rolls-Royce to develop a 67-acre business park and up to 81 acres of housing next its existing pr...
MoreRedrow is planning to raise £79.6m through a share issue to boost its building programme in London and key regional sites. The move came as the house builder issued an upbeat trading statement to the City. Executive chairman Steve Morgan said: “Redrow...
MoreNew standards for construction work have been hailed by the RICS as “one of their most significant launches in the past 30 years.” The QS and Construction Standards (Black Book) and New Rules of Measurement (NRM) were officially published today. Th...
MorePlans for a £50m yacht-shaped hotel have been given the go-ahead by Southamption planners. Marina developer MDL plans to build the 76-room hotel at the Ocean Village Marina site on the city’s waterfront. Tenders for the construction are due within the n...
MoreDeveloper Almacantar has released details of plans to convert the 34-storey Centre Point office tower in London into residential flats. The developer with partner Frogmore Estates plans to submit the proposal to convert iconic tower from mixed-use to 82 luxury...
MoreOxfordshire County Council has awarded Carillion a 10-year property and facilities management services contract worth up to £700m. The council said the deal will deliver yearly revenue savings of at least £550,000. It is the first time all property service...
MoreSeddon Property Services has been chosen by Golden Lane Housing for a five-year contract to provide reactive maintenance. GLH is the leading provider of supported housing for people with learning disabilities and was established by Mencap. Seddon will provide ...
MoreBam has been chosen by the Bristol Free School for a major refurb and new build project. Work will involve complete refitting and refurbishment of one of the school’s 5,000 square metre blocks to transform it into a science and technology centre. A new f...
MoreBalfour Beatty Construction has confirmed the appointment of former Bovis Lend Lease project boss Vince Lydon as major projects director for London. He will lead the push to gain a stronger portfolio of commercial building projects in the capital where Balfour...
MoreNorthern social housing contractor Forrest has struck a deal with a finance house to recharge stalled solar power projects. Several major social housing photovoltaic projects were shelved when the Government decided bring forward its timetable to cut Feed in...
MoreBidders have been unveiled by the Defence Infrastructure Organisation for facilities management contracts worth up to £4.35bn. The three regional prime contracts will cover the management of defence facilities across England and wales for the next five-ten ye...
MoreMorrison has started up three new repairs contracts worth more than £130m. The new partnerships include a seven year contract with Home Group for responsive repairs, voids maintenance and planned maintenance to 15,000 properties in the North Eas. An innovativ...
MoreThe Government is claiming £1.5bn in savings following its revamp of procurement for major infrastructure projects. The Treasury said it is on course to strip-out £3bn of waste on construction costs by 2015. The Infrastructure Cost Review has seen procuremen...
MoreThe Miller Group has appointed Philip Bowman as Chairman. Bowman starts in his new role today and succeeds Sir Brian Stewart CBE who joined the business in 2008. Bowman, 59, is the Chief Executive of global technology company, Smiths Group plc, and was formerl...
MoreMarks & Spencer is set to get the go ahead to build a £40m out-of-town store in Newcastle-under-Lyme. Council planners recommended the 140,000 sq ft scheme for approval, subject to a section 106 obligation to pay £100,000 towards the Town Centre Partners...
MoreEconomists at the Construction Products Association have revised their industry forecasts to paint a less gloomy picture of the market this year. The association is now predicting a 2.9% drop in construction output this year compared to its previous forecast o...
MoreGatwick Airport has officially named the 23 firms selected for its minor works framework to deliver its planned £1bn revamp. Minor works contractor panels will be used for individual contracts worth up to £15m, covering an expected programme of works worth ...
MoreDeveloper McAleer and Rushe has gained planning permission to build a 271-bedroom hotel at Salford. The City Wharf scheme involves demolishing an office block to make way for the 12-storey hotel and 120,000 sq ft of offices. The Salford planning application w...
MoreCrossrail and developer Derwent have gained planning approval to regenerate Tottenham Court Road with 500,000 sq ft of retail, office and residential accommodation. Westminster Council gave approval to the mixed-use development that promises the first new W...
MoreA PFI consortium running one of Scotland’s biggest hospitals could have its contract ripped-up after a series of blunders. The Consort consortium of Balfour Beatty, Morrison Construction and the Royal Bank of Scotland won the contract to build and operat...
MoreBAM Construction has won the £11.5m contract to replace the current Harborne Academy in the West Midlands with a new building. Work is anticipated to begin in July with completion scheduled for September 2013. The new building will be built in front of the cu...
MoreBirmingham City Council has unveiled the nine firms selected to deliver a mix of new build housing schemes over the next three years. The £100m new housing programme is being delivered by the city council’s Birmingham Municipal Housing Trust. Mansell an...
MoreWillmott Dixon’s repairs and maintenance arm has secured a £25m deal after forming a joint venture company with affordable housing provider Acis Group. The Limited Liability Partnership called Galatia will deliver a repairs service to 5,500 homes in South Y...
MoreThe planned restructuring of Balfour Beatty is likely to see around 500 job cuts rather than exaggerated reports of thousands being culled. The latest speculation from the city is far below the alarmist headlines in the national and trade press, which have cla...
MorePochin has confirmed that a deal to dispose of its loss-making concrete pumping business has collapsed. The firm was in “advanced talks” with a potential buyer but the deal has now fallen through. Pochin is now looking to sell the division to other...
MoreIf possession really is nine-tenths of the law then Barcelona should hire the best barrister they can find if they get knocked out of the Champions League next week. The Spanish pass masters held on to the ball for 65 of the 90 minutes against Chelsea creating...
MoreThe ‘majority’ of Killby & Gayford’s 255 staff have been made redundant following the contractor’s collapse into administration. Administrator BDO confirmed the firm had ceased to trade immediately with work stopping on all its site...
MoreRobertson is expanding into the north west of England with a new office in Manchester. The office at Oldham Broadway Business Park will be run by Operations Manager Peter Mattimore and Business Development Manager Chris Snow. Mattimore and Snow worked together...
MoreArchitect Avanti has been selected to draw up detailed designs for a new wing at the Sheffield Children’s Hospital. Managers at the hospital foundation trust now hope to secure planning permission this summer to allow building work to begin next Spring. The ...
MoreContractor Cruden has been drafted in to finish a stalled social housing site in Dumfries and Stranraer. Client Dumfries and Galloway Housing Partnership was left without a builder when Dumfiries R&D Construction collapsed late last year. Since then the ho...
MoreHousing group Peabody is looking to appoint two contractors to maintain and repair its properties across London in a ten-year deal worth up to £130m. The winning firms will be responsible for work on Peabody’s 21,000 properties across the capital. Up to...
MoreOrganisers of The UK Concrete Show are moving next year’s event to Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre after outgrowing the current venue. Marwood Events show director Steven Callaghan said: “The show has quickly become an important date in the c...
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