Construction news

• J Tomlinson staff start looking for new jobs

  10-07-2023 12:50 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Staff at Nottingham based contractor J Tomlinson have started looking for new jobs.
  Office and site staff at the £100m+ turnover company took to LinkedIn today to declare themselves “Open to Work” as calls to the company’s head office went unanswered.
  Latest accounts for J Tomlinson for the year to September 31 2021 showed a turnover of £106m generating a pre-tax loss of £657,000.The company employed 460 staff at the time of the accounts and owed £17.7m
  
  Read more

• J Tomlinson going into administration

  10-07-2023 12:50 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Nottingham based contractor J Tomlinson is heading for administration.
  Office and site staff at the £100m+ turnover company were given the bad news over the weekend and have started looking for new jobs
  CEO Mark Davis said: “It is with a heavy heart that I have to announce that J Tomlinson Ltd will be filing a notice of intention to the court today to enter into administration, the proposed administrator will be FRP Advisory, which we anticipate will take place later today.“JTL
  
  Read more

• J Tomlinson falls into administration

  10-07-2023 12:50 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Nottingham based contractor J Tomlinson is now in administration and has ceased trading with 400 jobs lost.
  Raj Mittal and Nathan Jones of specialist business advisory firm FRP are now in charge of the £100m+ turnover business.
  Mittal said: “Despite its scale and the success achieved across a number of its divisions, the severe impact of Covid and recent inflationary pressures meant that J. Tomlinson was not in a financial position to continue trading and so we have had to make
  
  Read more

• Lower Thames Crossing to lead switch to hydrogen fuelled plant

  10-07-2023 10:18 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  National Highways has committed to pioneering the largest-ever use low-carbon hydrogen construction plant on the planned Lower Thames Crossing mega project.
  It has set its sights on making the massive approach roads and tunnel project the greenest road ever built in the UK.
  As such it is being officially designated as an industry pathfinder to explore carbon neutral construction as part of the agency’s commitment to net zero maintenance and construction emissions by 2040.
  National Highways
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• £8bn race starts for Northumbrian Water AMP8 deal

  10-07-2023 09:15 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Northumbrian Water has fired the starting gun on the race for places on its mega framework for the AMP8 investment cycle.
  The water company, which also operates in the south east in Suffolk and Essex, aims to reshape the way it delivers capital investment.
  With a plan to spend around £8bn over a seven-year period, it has drawn up a more collaborative module of delivery that reflects long and short cycle works.
  Northumbrian is joining the shift towards an embedded client collaboration model
  
  Read more

• Watchdog MPs blast “floundering” HS2 Euston Station plans

  10-07-2023 08:44 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Department for Transport still does not know what it is trying to achieve with the HS2 station at Euston despite spending over eight years planning and designing it.
  A damning report by watchdog MPs on the Public Accounts Committee said the scheme is “floundering” as cost estimates for its construction rise to £4.8bn from an original £2.6bn.
  The government announced in March that work on the station will be paused for two years in a bid to cut costs.Dame Meg Hillier M
  
  Read more

• Muse lands £550m Oldham developer role

  10-07-2023 08:15 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Oldham Council has selected Muse as development partner to deliver 2,000 homes across eight sites in the town centre.
  The sites include Oldham Civic Centre, which will be freed up when Oldham Council staff relocate into the redeveloped Spindles Town Square Shopping Centre. Here, 400 to 600 apartments could be created.
  The former Oldham Magistrates’ Court site has also been earmarked for 125 to 225 flats.
  While a further 175 to 250 apartments could be built at the former Oldham Leisure Cen
  
  Read more

• Ashe seals £24m Milton Keynes school deal

  10-07-2023 08:14 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Ashe Construction has been awarded a £24m design and build contract to for a new primary school and community health hub for Milton Keynes Council.
  The job will form part of the council’s MK East development in preparation for 5,000 new homes being built in the area.
  The MK East school project is valued at around £14.5m, and will provide 39 nursery places and 630 primary places. The 3400sq m school will have 21 classrooms and two halls and will be of steel frame construction wi
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Pay deal for nuclear builders heads-off strike threat

  10-07-2023 08:00 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A pay deal on behalf of 1,000 construction workers employed on EDF’s power station sites has headed-off planned strike action.
  Engineering construction roles at EDF’s seven power stations – Hartlepool, Torness, Heysham 1 and 2, Dungeness, Hunterston Hinkley Point B and Sizewell B -n will in future be covered by the National Agreement for the Engineering Construction Industry (NAECI) guaranteeing the workers’ pay and conditions.
  All the workers will also see their bonus pa
  
  Read more

Follow @new_constructio on Twitter!