Wolverhampton City Council has agreed a £61m price with contractor McLaughlin & Harvey to build to City Learning Quarter in the city centre. The firm will now go-ahead and build a facilities for the City of Wolverhampton College, Adult Education Wolverhampton and Central Library. The City Learning Quarter main facility will be situated around the

Mace Group has sold its FM business to a management buyout team after deciding to sharpen focus on its core construction and consultancy services. The management buy-out of Mace Operate has been led by the FM arm’s chief executive Ross Abbate and financial director Chris Bampton alongside Mace Group deputy chairman Mark Holmes, who will

McLaren Construction has appointed Paul Spiller as Group Commercial Director. Spiller was previously London commercial director at Sir Robert McAlpine and left earlier this year following a restructure. He joins former colleague Paul Heather who left McAlpine last year to become group managing director at McLaren. Spiller will build on McLaren’s recent success in delivering

Morgan Sindall’s urban renewal arm Muse has been picked as preferred development partner for the regeneration of Mell Square shopping centre in Solihul. Working closely with Solihull Council, Muse will help to deliver a wholesale transformation of Mell Square over the next 10 years. Solihull Council took ownership of Mell Square in April 2021 in

The scale of demolition specialist Squibb Group’s debts can be revealed as the firm tries to strike a deal with its creditors. Documents seen by the Enquirer detail how much is owed by Squibb as it seeks agreement for a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) with creditors. The CVA proposals by Begbies Traynor show £23.3m owed

Developer Citylife has gained consent for a 30-floor residential skyscraper in Leeds, after scaling down its height from 46 floors. The £100m scheme planned for Whitehall Road in the north west part of Holbeck would consist of 345 flats with a sky garden and private roof terrace. Designed by Nick Brown Architects, the project on

Bouygues Energies & Services’ UK engineering contracting business has delivered a profit ending five years of losses. The engineering construction and maintenance specialist based in Motherwell returned a pre-tax profit of £19m last year,  after accumulating £141m of losses since 2017. Revenue over the year to December 2022 was slightly ahead at £198m, helped by

The Government Property Agency (GPA) has submitted a planning application to Wokingham Borough Council for the new headquarters for the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) at the University of Reading. The new headquarters will create the largest cluster of weather and climate research and operational forecasting facilities in the world alongside the University’s

Network Rail is proposing to spend an extra £600m on infrastructure following a review of its investment plans by the Office of Rail and Road. The ORR called for the extra infrastructure cash in its initial response to Network Rail’s spending plans for the five years from 1 April 2024 – known as Control Period

Two specialist contractors operating in the north west have collapsed into administration after struggling to regain profitability following the Covid 19 pandemic. Administrators from insolvency specialist Leonard Curtis have taken over at Lancashire-based steeelwork specialist James Killelea & Co. The firm has struggled to return to normal trading levels since the pandemic with revenue plunging