40 firms win spots on £3bn Hyde build frameworkThe Hyde Group has picked 40 firms for a new £3bn main contractor framework, covering housing and regeneration projects across London, the South and East of England.
The seven-lot framework will be administered by National Framework Partnership and is open to other public sector bodies nationwide through a joining agreement.
Big names includ…
Multiplex lands £400m Dovetail Building dealMultiplex has been appointed under a pre-construction services agreement for The Dovetail Building at One Cutler Street in the City of London.
The 23-storey office tower has been designed by architects Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM) for developer Brockton Everlast.
The scheme obtained a recent planning amendment which reduced further the tota…
Highways firm fined £1m after road worker killedMarlborough Highways Limited has been fined £1m after one of its employees was killed by a reversing road-sweeper.
Robert Morris, 48, was working on the resurfacing of Pemberton Road in Haringey on 30 May 2022 when he was struck by the vehicle.
A joint investigation was launched by the HSE and the Metropolitan Police.
The police submitted…
August output dip ends sluggish summer for constructionConstruction output fell 0.3% in August 2025, bringing to an end a summer of sluggish growth.
Latest figures from the ONS showed the sector lagging behind the wider economy, which grew by 0.1% in August, as many builders struggled to move from preconstruction to live site starts amid ongoing investor caution.
Across the three months to…
Plans in for final phase of London’s Elephant Park regenThe final piece of the Elephant Park regeneration in London’s Elephant and Castle area has gone in for planning closing out more than a decade of transformation across the 10-acre site.
Developer HUB has submitted proposals drawn up by architect AHMM to redevelop the 1.2-acre plot into a mixed-use scheme of 678 co-living homes and socia…
Kier scoops £700m Norfolk highways upkeep dealKier has secured a £700m deal to deliver Norfolk County Council’s new highways and infrastructure works contract.
It will replace incumbent maintenance contractor Tarmac in the region covering nearly 10,000km of roads across the county.
The long-term contract, starting in April 2026, will run for up to 14 years and includes surfacing, bridg…
Builder impaled on machinery after rooflight plungeTwo companies have been fined after a man fell through a fragile rooflight and impaled his leg on machinery below during over cladding work at a factory in Keighley,
A.T. Lee Properties Limited and LJH Property Limited were fined a combined total of more than £95,000. Directors for each firm were also given conditional discharges and ordered to…
Tide secures UK’s first volumetric Gateway 2 approvalVolumetric developer Tide has become the first firm in the UK to clear Gateway 2 approval for a modular high rise project under the new Building Safety regime
The approval means work can now start on the firm’s 23-storey, 424-bed student accommodation tower The Green in Southall, west London — marking a major breakthrough for the offsit…
Kier lands £250m double prison expansion dealKier has bagged around £250m worth of contracts to expand HMP Northumberland and HMP Lancaster Farms, delivering 480 extra prison places under the Ministry of Justice’s Small Secure Houseblocks Programme (SSHP) Alliance.
Each site will get four new houseblocks, new site-wide infrastructure and upgrades to ancillary facilities, with completion du…
Billington plans steel plant closuresBillington is restructuring its steel operations with the plant at Bristol marked for closure and work at two sites in Barnsley to be consolidated into one.
The structural steel specialist issued a profit warning last month as revenue slid almost 28% to £42m in the six months to 30 June 2025 as three big contracts suffered delays sending pre-tax profit…