Eight take key spots on £250m Prosper frameworkEight contractors have secured spots on the key all-building lot for Prosper’s £250m investment works framework covering the North East, Cumbria and North Yorkshire.
The four-year framework is set up to serve councils, housing associations, schools, NHS trusts and emergency services.
Bell Group, Fortem, Lovell, Novus, Equans, Esh Construction,…
Care home fire trial collapsesA trial into alleged breaches of fire safety regulations by four companies involved in the design, risk assessment, management and maintenance of the former Beechmere retirement village in Crewe has collapsed.
Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service brought the prosecutions following the blaze in August 2019 which destroyed the care home which housed around 150…
McLaren storms April contracts league with flurry of winsA strong winning streak last month took McLaren Construction to the top of the April contracts league.
The firm bagged eight jobs in the month, the largest the planned £225m Cardiff Bay music arena. In London, McLaren also secured a £150m data centre in London Docklands, while in Yorkshire it sealed a shed deal for a distribution hub for…
Goldman Sachs-owned Adler & Allan buys 180-strong civils outfitPrivate equity-backed environmental services group Adler & Allan has made its biggest purchase yet with the acquisition of South West-based civils contractor Glanville Environmental.
The 180-employee Devon contractor, which specialises in drainage, geospatial surveys and civil engineering, has been snapped up by the Goldman…
Balfour Beatty lifts cash forecast after strong first quarterBalfour Beatty has upgraded its cash forecast for the year after enjoying a bumper start to 2025.
Ahead of its AGM today, the contractor revealed that average monthly net cash hit £1.06bn in the first three months of the year — well above the £766m average recorded in 2024.
Bosses now expect average net cash for 2025 to come in…
Caddick lands first contract for £200m Skelmersdale revampCaddick Construction has been awarded the first contract by the developer behind a planned £200m revamp of Skelmersdale town centre.
Tawd Valley Developments (TVD) – the wholly owned development arm of West Lancashire Borough Council – has been appointed ‘master developer’ of the scheme.
Its proposals for Skelmersdale town centr…
Van Elle sells HGV fleet to haulage firmPiling specialist Van Elle has sold its in-house HGV fleet to WS Specialist Logistics Limited for £2.9m.
The deal sees WS sign a five-year partnership with Van Elle to provide heavy haulage operations as its fleet, transport management team and directly employed drivers move into a new division of WS.
WS has paid a total of £2.9m in cash for the assets…
Buyers more bullish about prospects for year aheadConstruction activity decreased for the fourth consecutive month in April but business optimism among buyers hit its highest level since December 2024.
The bellwether S&P Global UK Construction Purchasing Managers’ Index recorded 46.6 in April – up slightly from 46.4 in March but below the 50.0 no-change value for the fourth consecutiv…
Council backs first Brutalist car park-to-flats schemeA radical plan to transform a crumbling 1960s multi-storey car park into more than 110 flats has got the green light from planners in Newcastle-under-Lyme.
In a UK first, social impact developer Capital&Centric will retain large parts of the old Midway car park structure and rework it into design-led flats as part of a wider town centr…
Hinkley Point C hits peak build with 26,000 jobsThe number of workers building Hinkley Point C has surged to 26,000 as the nuclear power project hits peak construction.
Around 18,000 people are working directly for the project in Britain.
Around 12,000 are working on the site itself, with 3,000 more expected in the next 12 months.
With the fit-out phase accelerating, an additional 8,000 peo…