Work has restarted at Gentoo’s Eskdene Rise housing development in Hetton-le-Hole, Sunderland which came to a halt when main contractor Tolent went into administration 12 months ago. Gentoo has signed a deal with with affordable house builder Adderstone Living to finish the 86 new homes. Rebecca Bewick, Head of Delivery at Gentoo said: “I know

Developer British Land and pension fund AustralianSuper have submitted plans for a major cultural venue at London’s Canada Water development. The plan will reinstate and create a permanent music venue in one half of the large former Printworks building, the other half will deliver next-generation sustainable workspace and retail, known as The Grand Press. The

Piling specialist Roger Bullivant has launched an investigation after one of its rigs became unstable on site last week. The Enquirer was sent photographs of the stricken piling rig on a site in the north west. A Roger Bullivant statement said: “One of our rigs became unstable on a site last week, the machine was

The Enquirer understands that more than 50 senior staff have been let go in the last few days by Berkeley Group as part of a restructuring. The job losses are understood to be focused on the central London based Berkeley Homes Capital division which oversees some of the largest regeneration projects in the capital. One

House builder J S Crawford Contracts (Borders) Limited has gone into liquidation after nearly 50 years in business. Blair Nimmo and Alistair McAlinden from Interpath Advisory have been appointed joint provisional liquidators to the firm which was founded in 1946 and based in Melrose in the Scottish Borders. The business has ceased to trade and

Willmott Dixon has secured a £55m contract to build a new headquarters for Hertfordshire Police force in Welwyn Garden City. The project first involves demolishing 11 buildings from the 1960s to make way for a 5-storey complex to house over 600 operational staff. Procured via the SCAPE Construction framework, the 9,000 sq m headquarters will

ISG chief executive Matt Blowers and finance director Karen Booth are exiting the business in an on-going leadership shake-up. Company veteran Blowers steps down with immediate effect after 26 years at ISG, and the last two years serving as chief executive. He will be followed out of the door by finance director Karen Booth, who

Gilbert-Ash has clinched a £31m contract to build a new junior school at St Paul’s independent school in West London. Designed by architect HawkinsBrown, the project will consist of two new buildings. The largest, Junior School West, will involve building a three-storey block to house teaching and changing facilities. The other Junior School East will

Essex based contractor Higgins Group has posted a pre-tax loss of £25.8m from a turnover of £171.9m for the year to July 31 2023. The latest numbers compare to a £5.4m loss in the previous year from a turnover of £215.9m. The company blamed the figures on project delays caused by second staircase rules and

BAM started the New Year with a brace of major orders that pushed it to pole position in the contract league rankings. The firm’s building arm finalised the contract to repurpose Digbeth’s historic Typhoo Tea Building into a new home for the BBC in Birmingham. It civils operation BAM Nuttall also achieved final sign-off on