Robertson Construction has promoted Ian Phillips to regional managing director of its Northern business in Scotland. His appointment to the business comes six years after joining as operations director and follows the retirement of Frank Reid after 43 years of service. In another appointment Morgans Sindall’s Ricky Brown has joined the business to fill the
A specialist contractor has been fined after a 22-year-old carpenter died after he was struck by roofing materials on a building site. On 30 October 2019, Niall McCormack from Kettering, Northamptonshire had been working for KM Carpentry Contractors Limited installing roof trusses at a new build site at Alconbury Weald, Cambridgeshire. Both the truss packs
Anglian Home Improvement has pledged to fulfil orders taken by crashed double-glazed window rival Everest 2020. Administrators Resolve confirmed today that a deal has been struck to sell certain assets of the failed business to Anglian Home Improvements. While the terms of the agreement are finalised, the joint administrators have entered a subcontractor arrangement that
Engineers on the super sewer project have begun work to connect the new infrastructure to London’s existing sewer system. Major construction work on the 25km Thames Tideway tunnel was finished last month after a 1,200-tonne concrete ‘lid’ was lifted into place to cap the project’s deepest shaft at Abbey Mills Pumping Station in east London.
Road sweeper hire specialist Go Plant has filed a notice of intention to appoint an administrator. The firm’s machines are a common sight on building and civils jobs across the country. Go Plant’s latest accounts show the business had a turnover of £44.8m for the year to June 30 2022 generating a pre-tax loss of
A legal challenge has been launched against £1.5bn plans to dual parts of the A66 just as contractors were gearing up to start work. The A66 Northern Trans-Pennine project, which received development consent last month, looks set to delay the project again. National Highways said it would fully support the legal process as the challenge
Sir Robert McAlpine has strengthened its Capital Ventures development business with the appointment of Owain Thomas as managing director of Land and Development. SRMCV has a clear mandate from its shareholders to continue to grow after successful developments in the build to rent and healthcare sectors. Thomas will have overall responsibility for the SRMCV development
John F Hunt has been employed directly by Belgian developer Ghelamco to undertake demolition, enabling works and construction of The HiLight – a new 24-storey resi tower on the site of the former 1830s Price’s Candle Factory in Battersea. Work includes demolition of the existing steel showroom which sits above podium level, followed by the
William Hare Group has won the contract to deliver the design, fabrication and installation of steelwork on the latest phase of Broadgate in the City of London. Sir Robert McAlpine was confirmed as main contractor last month on the £500m project at 2 Finsbury Avenue to build a 21-storey West Tower and a 36-storey East
BAM’s vast Co-op Live arena project in Manchester suffered yet another setback last night as the opening was delayed for a third time. The £365m Eastlands arena project has turned into an opening fiasco with three major gigs called off at the last minute. The vast arena project was due to be opened by comedian
