VolkerFitzpatrick has been chosen by logistics developer Prologis UK to design and build five new distribution units at Prologis Park Hemel Hempstead, within Maylands Business Park. Enabling works are now underway on the £30m scheme which is scheduled for completion in August 2025. It is the second project VolkerFitzpatrick has worked on at Prologis Park

Wates is finally seeing the benefits of its acquisition of SES Engineering Services eight years after it bought the then loss-making M&E contractor from Shepherd Group Latest published results for SES (Engineering Services) show the firm delivered record results last year after a significant restructure of the business under new managing director Rob Clifford. Despite

Housing group Places for People has picked its line-up of groundworks contractors to deliver new-build homes projects homes across England and Scotland. Around 25 firms have secured places on the groundworks panel of firms across four main regions for the affordable homes provider. M&J Evans Construction, Carmac (Building & Civil Engineering), Churngold Construction and John

Joint developers Bridgemere Land and Foundation Capital Ventures have secured outline planning for a £400m landmark science and innovation park in South Cambridge. The Cambridge Discovery Campus, designed by BCR Infinity Architects, will provide over 340,000 sq ft of science and innovation space over six detached, laboratory-enabled buildings. It will be built on the site

Immigration officials have decided to take no action against precast concrete contractor FP McCann after a dawn raid on one of its sites last month. The Home Office briefed the media on the raid on on the Shotton Mill site in Deeside, north Wales warning that McCann could face fines of up to £225,000 after

McLaren’s property arm has got the planning green light to build a 45-storey build to rent tower and two lower-rise office blocks to the west of Leeds city centre. Designed by Glenn Howells Architects, the Wellington Square scheme will be located on the city skyline by the landmark hexagonal-shaped residential block which will rise to

Construction output fell 1.9% in February as heavy rainfall dampened construction activity. New work was hit hardest dropping by 2.3% with repair and maintenance decreasing by 1.4% during the month. Despite the uptick in output in January, construction new work output in the last three months to February sharnk by a total of 3%. Scott

Planners have given the thumbs up to a scheme to build 285 flats in blocks next to protected wharves near Wandsworth Bridge in London. As a former industrial shipping site, Albert and Swedish Wharves, will be improved and retained with new logistics warehouses below high-rise house blocks overlooking the Thames. Developer Henley Investment Management can

Multi-disciplinary engineering specialist Taziker Industrial suffered a £1.2m pre-tax loss last year that prompted the previous founders to buy back a controlling stake in business from its private equity owners. The ownership change back to Thomas Taziker, Nigel Taziker and Graham Moor agreed in October 2023 also deleveraged the business and prompted a strategy rethink

Morgan Sindall’s Northern Home Counties business has been appointed to develop a £19.1m ward expansion on behalf of the Milton Keynes University Hospital (MKUH) NHS Foundation Trust. Procured via the Pagabo Framework, the project will create a new two-storey building known as Oak Wards as well as a link corridor to the existing A&E department