BAM has confirmed that James Wimpenny, Executive Director, Construction, UK and Ireland Division, has decided to retire at the end of this month He will step down following a 38-year career with BAM to spend more time with his family and pursue opportunities in the charitable sector. Wimpenny joined BAM in 1985 as a management
Manchester Airports Group has started the hunt for partners to deliver a £550m capital programme of airfield works at its airports. The work covering construction and rehabilitation of concrete and asphalt airside infrastructure covers Manchester, East Midlands and Stansted airports and will be delivered in a 5-8 year programme. The airport group is looking for
Student accommodation specialist Unite has recouped 75% of its building safety recladding costs in a recent round of remediation work on five blocks. Unite is looking to recoup between 50 and 75% of costs from contractors as remediation work in the second half of 2023 hit £69m. Remediation work was carried out on 16 buildings
Despite economic headwinds demolition and regeneration specialist John F Hunt grew revenue by nearly 50% last year and has now nearly doubled in size over the last two years. Group revenue hit £157m delivering a 72% uplift in profit to £9.5m in the year to March 2023. Profit growth was driven by the regeneration and
The Stewart Milne group is now in administration and the house builder has ceased trading with the loss of 217 jobs. Administrator Teneo shut all sites on Monday afternoon leaving staff and suppliers stunned at the group and six of its subsidiaries. Teneo said: “No further construction is being completed, at this time by the
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Dan Rice was named national sales manager at Bon Tool Company, overseeing sales, accounts, and customer service.
Seventy firms have secured places on procurement group Fusion21’s national building improvements framework worth up to £346m over a four-year period. Around three-quarters of the winners are SMEs and together cover a wide range of internal and external improvement works from the installation of kitchens, bathrooms, windows and doors to roofing work. Fusion21 Building Improvements Framework
Centre Partners, a mid-market private equity firm, acquired Quick Roofing, a Dallas-based roofing service provider founded in 1984, in partnership with management.
Caddick Construction has appointed a new managing director for its civil engineering business as it gears up for expansion after strong growth in Yorkshire. Simon Martin joins Caddick Civil Engineering following 18 years as group business development director at Durham-based MGL Group. During his time at MGL Group, he led a team that gained positions
