London developer Aitch Group has secured outline planning consent for a £330m scheme to transform a former industrial site into a 1,250-home community in south east London Its landmark New Belvedere scheme has been designed by architect PRP and will create a new community in the London Borough of Bexley. The New Belvedere project will
Regional house builder Avant Homes has racked up pre-tax losses of £108.9m from a turnover of £500m. Latest accounts for the firm’s holding company for the period to June 30 2023 reveal a string of exceptional items associated with building safety measures and costing errors on previous developments. Finance costs for loans also racked up
Skanska has signed a £105m contract to deliver a major office building overhaul on Millbank close to the Houses of Parliament. Developer Old Park Lane Management aims to dismantle and rebuild 7 Millbank in Westminster to create new nine-storey office building with two basement levels. The design and build of 12,100 sq m of workspace
Cardiff-based office fit-out and interiors specialist Paramount D&B has filed a notice of intention to appoint an administrator. The specialist contractor operates across Wales and the south west, employing around 50 staff out of its Cardiff and Bristol offices. Established over 30 years ago, Paramount delivers office design and fit-out services as well as construction
Workers on HS2’s new super-hub station at Old Oak Common in west London have completed the excavation of the huge underground box structure where high speed trains will stop. The excavation has taken three years after permanent construction to form the walls of the box began in June 2021. The vast underground box has a
A quick-thinking Tilbury Douglas site manager saved the life of a collapsed schoolboy after scooping him up and running to the emergency department of a hospital he had helped build. Ten-year-old Brooklyn Alwill Foster had gone into a diabetic emergency after becoming unwell a few days’ previously. His family had no idea that he had
Leading Scottish façade specialist Charles Henshaw & Sons Ltd has fallen into administration. The Edinburgh based firm was founded in 1904 and employs 72 people offering full design, fabrication, supply and installation of building façades across various sectors, including commercial, residential, and public buildings. The company has recently experienced financial pressures from additional costs in
Spencer Group has been awarded a £23m contract to design the site layout and deliver the enabling works and civils for the UK’s first commercial scale liquid air long duration energy storage facility. The £300m development by Highview Power at Trafford Energy Park in Carrington, Manchester will store surplus electricity generated from wind and solar
Wolverhampton City Council has signed off a development deal with Muse-led English Cities Fund to bring forward its City Centre West regeneration scheme. The council hopes the transformation of the west side of the city centre could ultimately see the development of around 1,000 new homes and an improved leisure, food and beverage, and retail
Salboy-owned contractor Domis has announced the retirement of co-founder and managing director Lee McCarren after seven years. Kingsley Thornton, currently director at £150m turnover Domis takes over his role with immediate effect. McCarren, aged 54, set up Domis in 2017 after leaving now defunct building contractor Forrest where he was then chief executive. To date,
