Three civils contractors have renewed deals to deliver up to £167m of maintenance and improvement works on the M25. Motorway operator Connect Plus (M25) has picked Jackson Civil Engineering, Octavius Infrastructure and Milestone Infrastructure to deliver the COFA3 call-off framework that will run for six years. Works includes highways construction and improvements across Hertfordshire, the
The 26-year-old worker who died after being injured at Everton’s new football stadium has been named. Michael Jones, from Kirkby, was taken to hospital after being hurt on the construction site at Bramley-Moore Dock, Liverpool at around 12.30pm on Monday. He is understood to have suffered severe head injuries and was treated at the scene
Skanska’s UK construction business continues to deliver strong profit growth last year despite challenging market conditions. The firm saw pre-tax profit surge nearly 60% to £55m in the year to December 2022, not including a one-off gain of £29m the year before from the sale of its infrastructure services business. Revenue was also up a
A major hike in the expected cost of remediating legacy hire-rise buildings for fire safety in the UK has plunged global construction group Lendlease into the red. The firm has dramatically raised the anticipated cost of recladding buildings by nearly 50% to £151m since signing the Government safety pledge just after the 13 March deadline
A Laing O’Rourke worker has died following an accident at the new Everton stadium construction site on Monday. His colleagues have been told to leave the £500m Bramley Moore Dock site where work by main contractor O’Rourke has been suspended until further notice. The 26-year-old victim is understood to have suffered severe head injuries and
The winners have been confirmed for places on the latest £1.6bn NHS Shared Business Services Construction Consultancy framework. The new framework agreement offers the NHS and other public sector organisations a compliant and cost-effective route for procuring construction-related services including architecture, civil and structural engineering and surveying. Melissa King, NHS SBS senior category manager –
London’s new super sewer client Tideway is set to start the hunt for a contractor to maintain thousands of infrastructure assets through the project’s performance and reliability testing phase. With the main tunnel and its connection tunnels fully excavated and more than 85% of the construction work complete, the Tideway team is preparing to enter
Nottingham police are on the hunt for a gang of metal thieves that struck at a five-storey luxury care home project in the city. Thousands of pounds worth of copper piping and stainless steel were stolen from Midlands contractor Sandycroft’s building site in West Brighford. The firm was well advanced on the £8m project to
The UK arm of Chinese developer Kam Lei Fong has lodged plans with Rochdale Council to convert an historic cotton mill into over 280 flats. The plan to convert the derelict grade-II listed Warwick Mill in Middleton has been designed by GMA Architecture and will also include a new 10-storey build block alongside the Victorian
Sunderland City Council has signed off a £15m deal with Brims Construction to design and build the Housing Innovation and Construction Skills Academy planned for the city. The project was to be delivered by Tolent Construction but stalled when the North East builder collapsed into administration last February. At the time Brims, which is run
