Family-owned Stafford building contractor Enrok Construction has fallen into administration. With offices in the East and West Midlands, Enrok previously traded as ATD Homes undertaking its own developments and contracting to residential developers. In 2020, the firm rebranded to Enrok to position itself as a more general construction contractor venturing into London to take on

HS2 joint venture Mace/Dragados has kicked-off construction on the landmark Birmingham Curzon Street Station. Major earthworks have got underway to prepare the site for piling and foundations work to start in the Spring. This will pave the way for main construction to start in the Summer on the £570m main station building. During construction itself,

Former Carillion chief executive Richard Howson has taken up a senior role at a US contractor just months after being banned from being a company director for eight years in the UK. Howson has been named construction president at Tampa-based TECfusions. The firm builds and renovates data centres and combined heat and power systems. It

High-end residential specialist Kenham Building Limited has been gone into administration. The London and Home Counties specialist is now in the hands of ReSolve partners Cameron Gunn and Chris Farrington who have been appointed as joint administrators. Kenham had been trading for 25 years. It began life as a small building company  for its owner-developer,

Materials giant Forterra has introduced another round of price rises this year as it slashed production amid falling demand. In a trading update it said revenue for 2023 had fallen 24% to £345m from £455m last time “with the impact of falling sales volumes partially offset by pricing benefits.” Forterra added:  Despite weak demand, pricing

Moda Living and Calthorpe Estates have lodged to build more than 460 flats in a 37-storey block in Birmingham. The plans are the second phase of the 11-acre New Garden Square masterplan, which will feature over 2,000 homes and £6m of public realm. Already contractor Winvic work has started to build nearly 400 rental flats

Hinkley Point C is now expected to cost an extra £10bn to build and be delivered around three years later than programmed. Developer EDF revealed the latest in a series of setbacks for the budget and timeline after completing design for the fitout. It said this had given it clearer sight of the final outturn

The University of South Wales has selected BAM to build a £40m academic building at the Treforest Campus in Pontypridd. BAM will now help to develop the detailed designs for the building which is scheduled to begin construction later this year. The proposed academic building will provide teaching, research, and support space for Computing, Engineering,

Multi-storey student and build to rent homes specialist Watkin Jones has plunged to a £43m loss after booking a further hit to cover building safety remedial works and restructuring. The exceptional charges included a £35m provision to cover these remedial works over five years and £3.1m to cover recent business streamlining designed to save £4m

Laing O’Rourke has won the job to deliver new army basic training facilities at Pirbright as part of the MoD’s £5.1bn defence estate optimisation programme. Work will now start at Alexander Barracks in Surrey with phased delivery during coming years. The project will deliver the infrastructure required to create a ‘centre of excellence’ for non-infantry