Mace has secured the job to upgrade and expand the University of East Anglia’s celebrated brutalist grade II-listed Lasdun building at its Norwich campus. The firm has secured the first phase of prestigious revamp with an £88m bid, beating rival Vinci. Built in the 1960s, the teaching and science building, later called the ‘Lasdun Wall’,
Up market fit out and refurbishment contractor Fileturn has filed an notice of intention to appoint an administrator. The Surrey based specialist has been in business for more than 25 years. Its website states: “We provide Principal Contractor services across the UK market place, in the most demanding of sectors such as hospitality, leisure, banking
A construction firm featured in a BBC series about young bricklayers has filed a notice of intention to appoint an administrator. BBC Three’s docuseries Brickies ran for two seasons from 2022/23 following the lives of young recruits at Hodgkinson Builders. But now the Derby based contractor has filed an administration notice. Hodgkinson Builders was founded
The pace of major office retrofits in London’s Square Mile is ramping up after two more schemes were nodded through by City planners this week. It means that four office schemes were approved in July as investors sought to exploit surging demand for top-class energy-efficient offices with outdoor spaces for staff. Therise in carve and
Manchester developer and builder Renaker Build delivered record revenue last year ahead nearly a third at £229m. But inflationary cost pressure hit its high-rise residential projects causing pre-tax profit to slip to £5m from £6m in the prior year. The firm, which was set up in 2006 by former Laing O’Rourke employee Daren Whitaker, boosted
Blackpool Council has appointed Morgan Sindall Construction’s North West business as main contractor on a pre-contract services agreement to build a new £65m education campus in the town centre. The Multiversity mixed-use educational development will bring up to 3,000 students and staff into Blackpool town centre and allow Blackpool and the Fylde College to relocate
Unsecured creditors left holding unpaid bills following the collapse of modular specialist ilke Homes last June will receive just £829,000 for the £63m they are owed. The bad news was contained in an update filed at Companies House yesterday by administrators to ilke Homes Holdings and ilke Homes Land. Ilke collapsed nearly a year ago
Ex-Skanska highways director Glennan Blackmore has started his new job at Galliford Try as managing director of Infrastructure, covering National Highways, local authorities and major projects. Blackmore will be responsible for increasing Galliford Try’s market share in existing sectors and progressing aligned adjacent market opportunities. He takes over from David Lowery who was promoted to
Wates has clinched a deal for housing association Orbit to retrofit 410 homes over two years, marking the start of a long-term partnership to help decarbonise Orbit’s homes. The latest contract swells Wates Property Services’ portfolio of social housing retrofit projects, which has seen the builder deliver PAS2035-compliant energy efficiency improvements to over 2,000 properties
Welsh Water has started the hunt for contractors to deliver works and services worth £750m for the next iteration of its Water Network Alliance . The not-for-profit company is looking for partners to deliver a significant programme of new customer meter installations, fix network leaks and repair and maintain its water network to deliver improvements
