HS2 has started the search for a contractor to design and supply a transport system for the project’s Automated People Mover in the West Midlands. The APM Systems Contract worth around £270m will include a 25-year transport operation and asset maintenance contract for the transit system. The capital investment element is costed at around £65m

British Land has unveiled plans for a major overhaul of its Euston Tower building in London. The developer has put contractors on alert for the project which will include a mixed approached including retention and re-use of existing structures and materials alongside addition of ultra-low carbon new structures. This multi-layered approach aims to create a

Forterra has started a round of job cuts as a predicted recovery in the housing market fails to materialise. The brick giant mothballed its Howley Park factory earlier this year in a £10m cost-cutting drive as the residential market slumped. It was banking on a second half recovery but in a trading update this morning

Graham Group passed the £1bn turnover milestone last year after a 15% jump in sales. But rising cost pressures saw pre-tax profit slide 20% to £15.1m, representing a fall in group margin from around 2% to 1.3% in the year to March 2023. Andrew Bill, Graham Group chief executive officer, said that profitability has been

Staff at Nottingham based contractor J Tomlinson have started looking for new jobs. Office and site staff at the £100m+ turnover company took to LinkedIn today to declare themselves “Open to Work” as calls to the company’s head office went unanswered. Latest accounts for J Tomlinson for the year to September 31 2021 showed a

National Highways has committed to pioneering the largest-ever use low-carbon hydrogen construction plant on the planned Lower Thames Crossing mega project. It has set its sights on making the massive approach roads and tunnel project the greenest road ever built in the UK. As such it is being officially designated as an industry pathfinder to

Northumbrian Water has fired the starting gun on the race for places on its mega framework for the AMP8 investment cycle. The water company, which also operates in the south east in Suffolk and Essex, aims to reshape the way it delivers capital investment. With a plan to spend around £8bn over a seven-year period,

Oldham Council has selected Muse as development partner to deliver 2,000 homes across eight sites in the town centre. The sites include Oldham Civic Centre, which will be freed up when Oldham Council staff relocate into the redeveloped Spindles Town Square Shopping Centre. Here, 400 to 600 apartments could be created. The former Oldham Magistrates’

A pay deal on behalf of 1,000 construction workers employed on EDF’s power station sites has headed-off planned strike action. Engineering construction roles at EDF’s seven power stations – Hartlepool, Torness, Heysham 1 and 2, Dungeness, Hunterston Hinkley Point B and Sizewell B -n will in future be covered by the National Agreement for the

Firefighters have put out a blaze on the 12th and 13th floors of a tower under construction in the centre of Reading. Fire crews were at the scene within minutes after thick plumes of smoke were spotted billowing across the town. A joint venture between Lincoln Property Company and MGT Investment Management is developing the