Doncaster based residential developer Empire Property Concepts Ltd went into administration owing suppliers and subcontractors more than £500,000. An update from administrator Opus Restructuring Llp has revealed the scale of debts left by the failure of the firm in April. Empire Property Concepts Ltd changed its name to MCIOD Limited days before Metro Bank called
The Government has blocked an attempt to amend the planned Procurement Bill to include mandatory project bank accounts for all jobs valued at over £2m. Debbie Abrahams, Labour MP for Oldham East and Saddleworth, had tabled a new clause to the Procurement Bill that aimed to enforce the use of PBAs to protect subcontractors’ payments
The slowdown in the housing market has forced a profit warning at Travis Perkins. The UK’s largest builders’ merchants said other sectors like commercial, industrial and infrastructure were proving “more resilient”. A stock exchange announcement said: “The Group delivered a resilient performance in the first quarter but has not seen the anticipated easing of market
Developers behind a planned £500m office scheme in Cambridge have revised designs to cut costs and speed up the construction programme. Joint developers Railpen and Socius are now hoping to press ahead with plans for twin offices once revisions for Botanic Place have been passed by local planners. The proposed changes to the existing planning
Bidding is underway for a project to overhaul the grade 1 listed Tate Liverpool gallery building at the city’s Royal Albert Dock. The Re-Imagining Tate Liverpool is a major remodelling of the building to improve the gallery’s visibility and presence on the dock underlining its credentials as a leading international cultural institution. Already 6a architects
BAM has started site clearance for Scotland’s first leisure centre designed to meet passivhaus-standards. The £36m Blairgowrie Recreation Centre will be Scotland’s first ultra-low energy swimming pool and leisure centre. Designed by Holmes Miller architects, the building is only the second in the UK – to achieve Passivhaus certification, after Willmott Dixon’s pioneering £44m leisure
Somerset-based civil engineering and groundwork specialist G Works Construction has fallen into administration. Administrators from EY Parthenon have laid off 150 staff from an overall workforce that exceeded 300 including self-employed operatives. The £28m turnover firm specialised in civils for commercial and large residential developments as well as industrial and retail buildings. It worked for
Mace is calling on the government to adopt a “retrofit first” strategy in planning policy in a bid to stop so many old building being demolished. The contractor has launched a new report – Transform & Renew – Making non-domestic buildings fit for a low carbon future – to promote the re-use and repurposing of
Yorkshire-based modular house builder ilke Homes is being offered to potential buyers for bids of over £1. Backers of the loss-making ilke are understood to have approached three major house builders in an effort to attract further investment into the business. Those thought to have been approached include Barratt, Bellway and Taylor Wimpey. The firm
Construction output declined by 0.6% in April after two successive months of growth. The fall was led by a 1% drop in new work, mainly from private housing new work, down 3% and commercial down 1.8%. Compared with the same month last year all new housing is now down 6.1%, while commercial build is up
