Piling jobs at risk over safety regulator high rise project delaysHold-ups on gaining safety regulator approvals for high rise building projects is starting to put workers jobs at risk deep in the supply chain.
Specialist demolition and foundation contractors are warning jobs cut loom as work dries up because developers are struggling to get clearance to start construction.
Since the introduction…
Ferrovial lands £230m National Grid tunnelFerrovial has been awarded the contract by National Grid for its £230m Grain to Tilbury electricity infrastructure upgrade project.
Work will start on site shortly and last four years to construct a new 2.2km long high voltage cable tunnel and two 35m deep shafts.
The job will be overseen by an integrated joint venture between Ferrovial Construction and…
Developer Ghelamco swaps to self delivery for Battersea towerBelgian developer Ghelamco UK has swapped to a self-delivery model as main construction work gets underway at its £140m Battersea scheme in south London known as The HiLight,
John F Hunt was lined-up last May for demolition, enabling works and construction of the 24-storey resi tower on the site of the former 1830s Price’s Cand…
Tax-row tunnellers down tools on Balfour Hinkley jobA tax-row is disrupting work on Balfour Beatty’s giant tunnelling contract at the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station site.
More than 100 workers downed tools last week following a dispute with their employer TG Tunnelling Ltd (TGT).
The Enquirer understands the dispute is over lodging allowances for agency workers on the site.
TGT is on…
Go-ahead for Square Mile’s fifth tallest towerDeveloper Brookfield Properties has secured planning to redevelop 99 Bishopsgate in London with a 54-floor tower that would be the Square Mile’s fifth tallest office building.
Brookfield-owned contractor Multiplex is in line to deliver the 240m tall scheme, which replaces a 1976-built, 24-floor office block, also presently the contractor’s UK…
Plans in for £200m Middlesbrough regen schemeA landmark £200m regeneration project in central Middlesbrough has hit a key milestone with the submission of a planning application.
Property developers iMpeC and Buccleuch Property are seeking approval from Middlesbrough Development Corporation for more than 230 build-to-rent properties, and a 450-bed student accommodation block at a derelict sit…
CITB survives another reviewThe CITB training body has survived yet another review into whether it is fit-for-purpose.
Consultant Mark Farmer started his analysis of the effectiveness of the Construction Industry Training Board and its sister body the Engineering Construction Industry Training Board nearly two years ago.
He has now recommended that the two bodies should be merged amid the need…
Plan for film studios switched to data centre clusterOutline plans have been submitted to build a cluster of six data centres at Wycombe Air Park in Buckinghamshire.
The plans replace a previously approved scheme to build a film studio complex which hit the buffers when the promoter collapsed.
Under the new plan, the data centres will be built on a 13ha site in the south corner of Wycombe Air…
Over 800 high-rise resi jobs stalled by safety regulatorConstruction starts on more than 800 high-rise residential new-build and upgrade projects are being blocked by Building Safety Regulator design checks.
Frustrated developers warn the logjam in sign-offs to start building is now threatening to undermine the Government’s housing delivery and growth drive.
According to latest figures…
McAlpine under fire after another panel comes loose from hotelLocal councillors have laid into Sir Robert McAlpine after another cladding panel came loose on its problem Hilton Hotel job in Woking town centre.
The panel was discovered after high winds last weekend and has forced the closure of the adjacent A320 Victoria Way while further checks and repair work are carried-out.
The road has been…