Kier is inviting bids for key subcontract packages on its £460m A417 Missing Link scheme between Gloucester and Swindon. Among the big packages Kier is on the hunt for firms to deliver a £35m earthworks, £18m drainage and £15m pavement works. It is also looking for suppliers of bridge bearings, prefabricated vertical drains, temporary CCTV

House builder Crest Nicholson issued a further profit warning this morning as problems on legacy firms continued to dog the firm. Last October Crest warned that falling sales and historic contract issues would see 2023 profits at £50m rather than £74m as forecast at the half-year. That has now been dropped again to £41m following

The Government has set out plans to crackdown on late-running street works with stiffer fines and £100m extra to resurface roads from lane rentals fees. Roads Minister Guy Opperman has launched a street works consultation on the tougher measures to penalise utility companies from letting roadworks overrun. The new regime will extend the current £10,000

The jib of a luffing crane tower crane collapsed overnight last Friday on a major residential job in west London. Crane owner Falcon Cranes said: “It has been reported to us that the jib of one of our luffing jib tower cranes collapsed overnight at a construction site in Acton. “The crane was not in

Vistry chief Greg Fitzgerald has succeeded in forcing through price cuts on subcontractor packages. The firm started negotiations with subcontractors in October for 10% price discounts on contracts from January and all new work going forward. This morning in an upbeat trading statement on last year’s performance, Fitzgerald revealed key supply chain partners had now

The Government has set out plans to build another major nuclear power station project after Hinkley and Sizewell C. Committment to a third ‘gigawatt-scale’ power plant project comes in a fresh routemap to increase nuclear generation by up to 4 times to 24GW by 2050. The Civil Nuclear Roadmap will give industry certainty of the future

Leaders  of the CSCS sills card scheme are urging the industry to prepare for the withdrawal of the Go Smart verification service. For over 10 years employers have used card checking platform Go Smart to verify the skills, training and competence of CSCS card holders. In 2023, CSCS announced Go Smart will be withdrawn on

HS2 main works contractor EKFB has started a year-long bridge slide to push almost half a kilometre of deck into position high above the Misbourne Valley in Buckinghamshire. The Wendover Dean Viaduct will be the first major railway bridge in the UK to be built with a ‘double composite’ approach. The increased strength of the

Road-rail equipment specialist TXM Plant has filed a notice of intention to appoint an administrator. Staff at the Wigan based business are now looking for new jobs following the news. Latest accounts for TXM show the company had a turnover of £38.9m for the year to April 29 2022 generating a pre-tax loss of £2.1m

Wates has secured the job to convert a grade-II listed landmark building in central London into a hi-tech life sciences hub. The Victoria House scheme is the brainchild of joint venture developers Oxford Properties and Pioneer Group. They plan to convert the 300,000 sq ft Bloomsbury Square building into Grade A wet lab-enabled life sciences