Laing O’Rourke appoints new European MDLaing O’Rourke has appointed Peter Lyons as Managing Director for its European business.
Lyons is currently leader of the company’s Specialist Trading Business Group (STBG), which comprises Expanded, Explore Manufacturing, Crown House Technologies, Select and Vetter.
He has worked for Laing O’Rourke since 2002, when he joined the business as a…
Profits dip at Stepnell ahead of demergerStepnell has posted a rise in turnover but a drop in profits ahead of a demerger splitting the construction, property management and property investment elements of the business.
Latest results at Stepnell Limited for the year to March 31 2024 show turnover up to £108.8m from £93.7m last time as pre-tax profits fell to £1.04m from £1.27m.
The business,…
1,000-home Wolverhampton city centre scheme in for planningThe ECF partnership between Homes England, Legal & General and Muse has submitted a hybrid planning application for a 1,000-home scheme in Wolverhampton city centre.
In partnership with the city council, ECF has put forward detailed plans for phase one of City Centre West, which includes over 330 homes and retail space on disused land…
Sisk clinches £54m North London council HQ revampNorth London’s Haringey council has signed a £54m contract with Sisk to restore its iconic civic centre.
Restoring the landmark building, currently closed due to safety issues discovered in 2020, was considered the best value option for the council’s accommodation needs.
Despite an initial cost projection of £45m, the council stuck wit…
Anglian Water hunts for £1bn delivery partnerAnglian Water is planning to appoint a single programme delivery partner to support ambitious infrastructure spending plans over the next 15 years.
The successful tenderer for the estimated £1bn framework deal will need to bring extensive experience in portfolio, programme and project management to deliver major complex infrastructure programmes.
As…
Hadden collapse costs supply chain £6.7mHundreds of subcontractors and suppliers have been left holding unpaid invoices worth £6.7m following the failure of Scottish contractor Hadden Construction.
The largest contractor in Perthshire went into administration in September and the scale of the firm’s debts has been confirmed in a Companies House update.
Latest accounts for the firm for t…
Management buyout at M&E specialistWirral based M&E contractor Kimpton has completed a management buyout.
The £25m turnover firm,which celebrated its 60th anniversary last year, will now be led by a team of directors including new managing director Tim Davis, who was formerly the firm’s general manager, and Linzi Kelly, who steps up to become financial director.
They are joined on the board by…
BAM finalises £71m deal to replace first major RAAC schoolBAM has finally agreed a £71m contract price with the Department for Education to cover the first major RAAC concrete school rebuild.
St Leonards Catholic School in Durham will be rebuilt to the west of the school site, replacing the existing disused and RAAC-affected buildings once demolished.
The 110,000 sq ft three-storey school w…
Scaffolder hit by two tonne weight at nuclear plantEDF and Trillium Flow Services Ltd have been fined a combined total of £633,333 after a scaffolder was seriously injured by a falling two-tonne counterweight at Dungeness B power station.
Scaffolder, Colin Dell, 62, was carrying out work in the vicinity of the main cooling water discharge valves at the site in Kent when the accident…
Go-ahead for 860,000 sq ft East London medical campusNHS Property Services has secured planning for a major new medical research campus around the Royal London Hospital site in the East End.
The vast Whitechapel Road Development in East London proposes six new and repurposed buildings rising from 3 to 12 storeys that will provide 860,000 sq ft of lab, research and teaching space.
Designed by…