L&G’s modular housing business amassed accumulated losses of £295m in its abortive foray to modernise the house building industry with factory-assembled homes. Latest results posted since the decision to close its modular 550,000 sq ft factory near Selby reveal the business lost just over £120m last year year capping off seven years of heavy losses.
A Woolwich labourer is ‘lucky to be alive’ after part of a Victorian building fell on him during demolition work in Kilburn, North West London. MAC Demolition Ltd has been fined £60,000 after Tommy Brooks was left with life changing injuries. The 57-year-old had been employed on the site as a labourer for three months
Bradford-based specialist retail contractor HB Projects has ceased trading with the loss of around 140 jobs. Directors broke the news that they had filed a notice to appoint administrators to staff at the firm’s HQ in Bradford as well as Livingtone and Gatwick offices. The firm, which was set up 30 years ago, struggled through
Euro Auctions is set to sell off Nixon Plant’s rental fleet in a four-day super auction in Leeds. Nixon Hire plans to offload 500 machines as part of a fleet rationalisation following the announcement of a new growth strategy at the hirer to focus on wellfare and site accommodation. Large plant will continue to be
The Government is injecting £65m into funding five big district heating schemes, including constructing the UK’s first heat network using waste heat from data centres to heat over 10,000 London homes. Grants from the Green Heat Network Fund will allow the big district heating projects in London, Watford, Suffolk and Lancaster to proceed. London’s Old
Subcontractors working for Birmingham based Colmore Tang have raised the alarm after the company’s website disappeared and the head office phones stopped working this week. The Colmore Tang main website is now showing as expired and calls to the head office say the number is no longer recognised. One subcontractor said: “We are trying to
Vivalda Group, the UK’s largest distributor of non-combustible cladding, has completed the nationwide roll-out of its ‘dust-free’ fabrication services across all its nine UK branches. The business has long advocated the use of off-site fabrication to help contractors deal with the risk of dust inhalation, which continues to concern the Health & Safety Executive (HSE).
AFI Rentals has launched a Carbon Offsetting Scheme allowing customers to offset the carbon footprint associated with the delivery and collection of their rented powered access machines. Each quarter, for every customer ordering online, AFI will offset 200% of the emissions associated with the delivery of their machine by investing in renewable energy offset programmes.
Kier has been confirmed as preferred bidder for the £2.7bn Birmingham highways maintenance and management Private Finance Initiative (PFI) contract. Once approved by government the new deal will start February 1 2024 and continue until June 2035 covering 2,500km of roadways and 5,000km of footways across the UK’s largest local authority. Kier has been maintaining
Morgan Sindall remains on track to deliver a strong performance in 2023 despite the market growing more challenging. In a trading update this morning, the firm said it had continued to grow its order book since the half-year point, rising 7% to £9.1bn. Average daily net cash for the full year is expected to be
