Building services specialist TClarke is set to exceed £500m revenue this year and has built a record order book more than double last year’s level at £1.1bn. In a trading update this morning, chief executive Mark Lawrence, said: “We have now achieved a significant milestone with our secured order book surpassing £1bn for the first

Wates has become the latest builder to sign the Government’s developer remediation contract legally committing it to deliver fire safety and recladding upgrades on legacy buildings. The firm has already set aside provisions of £72m in latest accounts that mostly include the expected cash outflow for remediation work on legacy buildings. Wates said it is

Laing O’Rourke made a pre-tax loss of £288.1m for the year to March 31 2023 as rampant inflation and problem jobs blew a hole in the books. Group accounts published this morning show revenue rising to £3.4bn from £2.9bn last time. But a pre-tax profit of £2.7m last year became a loss of £288.1m following

Royal London Asset Management Property has got the green light for a 800,000 sq ft all-electric industrial and logistics park scheme in Sefton, north of Liverpool The Atlantic Park redevelopment scheme will see seven units built ranging from 43,000 sq ft to 210,000 sq ft. The developer claims it will set a new standard for

Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks has signed agreements worth over £1bn with three contractors for significant network upgrades to electricity infrastructure. Keltbray Energy, OCU Services and Clancy will each carry out upgrade works in three allocated areas within SSEN’s central southern England distribution area, from Berkshire and West London to Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Hampshire and the

John F Hunt has appointed Simon Hyams as its new Managing Director for Contracting. Hyams was previously MD for the HS2 Major Projects division at Buckingham Group Contracting where he spent nearly nine years. He has over 36 years of contracting experience including senior director roles at Galliford Try and the Energy Technologies Institute. Hyams

Clancy is set to begin 2024 in a strong position for further growth, after the family-run civil engineering contractor reported a solid financial performance and major contract wins across the water and energy sectors. In a fifth consecutive year of growth in the year ending April 2023, the firm delivered record revenue, up 14% to

A shortlist of three contractors has been revealed for the A9 Dualling: Tomatin to Moy project between Perth and Inverness. The £150m job was retendered in September when Transport Scotland had to revise risks in the contract documents to attract new bidders. Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering, John Graham Construction and Wills Bros Civil Engineering were

A tower crane jib collapsed on a major residential site in Edinburgh on Tuesday morning. A video of the incident posted to social media shows the jib fell onto the apartment block under construction. A further video shows the site evacuated and emergency services arriving at the scene. Pal says it came down about 0930

Developer Salboy has dropped the office element from revised plans for the next phase of its Viadux scheme in central Manchester. The next phase will now see construction of two residential towers of 76 and 23 storeys containing 910 apartments. Simon Ismail, Co-Founder & Managing Director of Salboy, said: “City centres throughout the UK are