GMI promotes from within to replace departed chiefGMI Construction Group has promoted Gareth Jones to Group Managing Director.
The move follows the imminent departure of former chief executive Lee Powell to Henry Boot Construction where he takes-up his new role in January.
Jones has been promoted from Divisional Managing Director for the Midlands, where he has played a fundamental role in t…
Bid race starts for £2.6bn NHS modular buildings frameworkTwenty modular specialists face a fight to retain places on the Government’s next-generation modular building framework for schools and healthcare jobs.
NHS Shared Business Services has today invited bids for the new framework due to come into force next summer.
Since the existing framework was launched 9 firms have dropped out or…
Plan to convert 1960s multi-storey car park into 100 flatsRadical plans to transform a 1960s brutalist multi-storey car park into over 100 flats have been lodged with Newcastle-Under-Lyme Borough Council.
Developer Capital&Centric aim to transform Midway car park into one-to-three bed flats with social hub, gym, mini-cine and lounge space.
Developer aims to give brutalist concrete structures in…
William Hare returns to profit as revenue tops £300mThe country’s second biggest constructional steelwork contractor William Hare has returned to profit after revenue jumped 27% to £316m.
The uplift in work helped to generate a £5.8m pre-tax profit in the year to December 2023 recovering from a £850,000 loss in the prior year.
The improvement, which saw EBITDA rise to £9.8m (2022: £3.4m),…
Trio land £540m Southern Water sewer dealSouthern Water has awarded contracts worth up to £540m to three companies to boost its wastewater network performance.
The winning contractors will be responsible for delivering essential frontline sewer services from responding to emergency calls to rehabilitating existing sewers.
Work will be carried out across four lots.
Maintenance and manholes…
HG Construction wins £68m Old Kent Road resi towersDeveloper Avanton has selected HG Construction as main contractor for a £68m deal to build a residential scheme on the Old Kent Road in south London.
Work will start imminently on the 262-unit development, named ‘THE BeCa’ which has a project GDV of £160m.
The former Carpetright warehouse site at 651 Old Kent Road will feature two towers…
Van Elle says ISG hit contained at under £100,000Piling and ground engineering specialist Van Elle has revealed that the hit from the collapse of ISG is likely to be under £100,000.
The firm will report its limited exposure to the fall-out at its annual general meeting today.
Van Elle said that while market conditions in the first four months of the new financial year were challenging across…
Cladding panel maker goes downCladding designer and manufacturer PSP Architectural Ltd has gone into administration alongside sister firms PSP Aluminium Ltd and Pressed Steel Products Limited.
The failure of the County Durham based group has led to 84 redundancies.
James Lumb and James Clark of Interpath are now in charge of the business and are actively seeking buyers.
Architectural and…
Balfour Beatty acts to head-off ISG contagion in supply chainBalfour Beatty is offering a lifeline to its supply chain subcontractors impacted by the collapse of ISG.
The firm is aiming to stop any contagion from ISG’s collapse spreading to its own projects.
The move to support cash-strapped subcontractors comes amid widening concern that scores of firms have been seriously hit.
Already…
Canary Wharf Contractors break ground on Europe’s tallest labConstruction of Europe’s tallest and most technically sophisticated commercial lab buildings has started on site at Canary Wharf in London Docklands.
Architects KPF designed One North Quay as a 23-storey ‘vertical science campus’ that will rank as Europe’s tallest purpose-built lab space.
The 823,000 sq ft project is being…