Balfour Beatty terminates Danny Sullivan labour dealsBalfour Beatty has announced it is terminating all labour supply agreements with the Danny Sullivan Group.
In a statement the contractor said:”During an audit of our UK labour suppliers, concerns related to the Danny Sullivan Group were identified. While these concerns were being reviewed, related issues were reported through our confidentia…
Trio face prosecution after Hinkley site deathThe Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has notified three companies that they will be prosecuted for health and safety offences following a worker fatality at the Hinkley Point C construction site
NNB Generation Company (HPC) Ltd, Bouygues Travaux Publics SAS and Laing O’Rourke Delivery Limited are facing charges relating to an incident whic…
Apprentice saws-off thumb on hotel refurb siteDoctors managed to successfully reattach the thumb of a teenage apprentice after was severed off by a rotating blade on a refurbishment site.
The then 18-year-old resumed his apprenticeship with another firm following the procedure.
He was employed as an apprentice joiner by 3B Construction when the incident happened during the conversion of a 19t…
Buyers see recovery in house building sectorConstruction buyers have reported a return to growth in the house building sector for the first time since last September.
But contraction in civil engineering and commercial work saw the bellwether S&P Global UK Construction Purchasing Managers’ Index drop below the standstill 50 mark again in June for the six month in a row.
At 48.8 in June t…
TSL turnover smashes £500m as profit almost treblesFast-growing contractor TSL Ltd has smashed through the half-billion turnover mark with profit nearly trebling last year.
The technical construction and engineering contractor is riding high on orders for data centres, cold stores and pharmaceutical plant work.
Surging demand fueled a 77% jump in revenue to £527m for the year ending 31 December…
Laing O’Rourke tops June contracts leagueLaing O’Rourke soared to the top of the contracts league rankings after winning a £919m order to deliver an animal diseases super-lab at the government’s flagship Weybridge biosecurity campus in Surrey.
Design work for the mega contract is already underway, with most construction expected to ramp up between 2027 and 2032.
Multiplex ranked second…
Gleeson Homes chief exec leaves business after restructureGleeson Homes Chief Executive Mark Knight has stepped down from his role and left the business.
The move follows a restructuring at the company after “gross margin had come under pressure through the year due to the cumulative impact of a number of headwinds.”
Parent company MJ Gleeson led a review of the business called Project…
Green light for 1,600-home Oldham town centre overhaulMuse and Oldham Council have secured planning for all six sites in their £450m town centre regeneration plan, paving the way for over 1,600 homes to be built in the next 15 years.
The transformation forms part of the Oldham Town Living masterplan, aiming to bring underused plots back into use while delivering hundreds of affordable,…
DSM wins Norwich city centre clearance jobDSM Demolition has secured a £5.9m contract to clear and remediate the Anglia Square site in Norwich ahead of long-awaited regeneration plans.
The Birmingham-based contractor beat off 14 rivals to land the job, which will see full demolition of all buildings and foundations at the former district shopping centre.
The works include the removal of abov…
13-year-old becomes UK’s youngest qualified digger driverThe grandson of Gallagher Group chairman Pat Gallagher has become the UK’s youngest qualified digger driver – at the age of just 13.
Finlay Gallagher spent his school holidays learning how to put a JCB digger through its paces and has now passed his Construction Plant Competence Scheme exam with flying colours.
Finlay took t…