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• Six guilty of £2m bribery over Devon housing site deals

  01-05-2025 18:13
  Three crooked construction bosses bribed energy officials linked to a major Devon housing development to the tune of around £2m in order to secure lucrative heating contracts.
  Six people have now been sentenced for involvement in a criminal conspiracy which included bribery, money laundering and fraud centred around a housing site in Cranbrook, East Devon.
  Two former employees at energy company E.ON were found to have accepted bribes in the form of cash, false invoices, references and home
  
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• 1,650 former ISG staff launch legal claims

  01-05-2025 15:15
  The majority of collapsed contractor ISG’s former staff have launched legal claims against the company for failing to consult with them before they were made redundant.
  An update at Companies House from administrator EY revealed that 1,650 out of ISG’s total former workforce of 2,400 have launched Protective Award claims.
  Under the claims an an Employment Tribunal awards compensation to employees when their employer fails in its legal duty to consult collectively about proposed redun
  
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• Tilbury Douglas boosts margin to 2.1% as profits double

  01-05-2025 12:44
  Tilbury Douglas has improved its operating margin as it doubled pre-tax profit to £12m and closed the year with over £50m cash in the bank.
  In 2024, the contractor increased revenue by 7% to £542m but made a bigger leap in profitability, with operating profit jumping from £3.8m to £11.5m, lifting its margin from 0.7% to 2.1%.
  That shift marks a key milestone for the group in only its second full year as an independent business, driven by stronger performances in bui
  
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• Subbies battle for fastest bricklayer title

  01-05-2025 12:10
  The country’s leading brickwork contractors are battling it out to find who is the fastest in this year’s Super Trowel Subbie Cup.
  The latest heat saw Stoke based PBS Potteries Bricklaying Services top the league.
  Among the competitors was Winchmore Brickwork Group whose team consisted of three directors who all started on the tools at the London based specialist.Construction Director Adrian Murray, Project & Design Director Anthony “Tobo” Yianni and Contracts Manager
  
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• Delayed £2bn estate rebuild back on as Berkeley signs deal

  01-05-2025 11:08
  Berkeley Group’s St Joseph arm has finally signed a deal with Birmingham City Council to push ahead with the £2bn wholesale regeneration of the Ladywood Estate.
  The huge 20-year project will see the ageing 1960s estate in the city centre transformed with up to 7,500 new homes, green spaces, better transport links and new community facilities.
  The development agreement, signed more than two years after being named preferred bidder, confirms at least 70% of existing homes will be eithe
  
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• Unite signs £390m student beds JV with Manchester Met

  01-05-2025 08:38
  Student developer Unite has struck a £390m joint venture deal with Manchester Metropolitan University to redevelop the Cambridge Halls site and deliver 2,300 new student beds.
  The project will see Unite take a 70% stake in the partnership and act as developer, asset manager and operator. The university will hold the remaining 30% interest by contributing the land.
  Construction is due to start in 2026 with phased delivery in 2029 and 2030. The outdated Cambridge Halls, built in the 1990s, w
  
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• Kitchen fitter crushed to death by concrete blocks

  01-05-2025 08:25
  A house builder has been fined after a kitchen fitter was crushed to death by a pack of concrete blocks at a site in the Cotswolds.
  Martin Dunford, 33, from Pocklington in Yorkshire died on 23 January 2020 after being pinned against the side of a lorry loader as two stacks of concrete blocks fell onto him.
  Dunford had been working at Ebrington Rise, near Chipping Campden – a development of 16 three, four and five bedroomed houses being built by Piper Homes Construction Limited.An HSE inves
  
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• Mears clinches £230m renewal for key Milton Keynes housing deal

  01-05-2025 08:14
  Mears has secured a major contract renewal with Milton Keynes City Council worth £230m over five years to deliver housing repairs and maintenance services.
  The deal, set to start in August 2025, covers both planned and reactive maintenance across the council’s housing stock. A five-year extension option could take the total value up to £475m.
  The deal marks a key win for Mears, which first picked up the flagship Milton Keynes contract back in 2016.Chief executive officer Lucas
  
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• Scotland’s most complex A9 dualling job heads to market

  01-05-2025 00:36
  Transport Scotland has fired the starting gun on procurement for the most technically challenging stretch of the A9 dualling programme to date.
  The £205m Pitlochry to Killiecrankie job will be the fifth section to go out to tender as part of the long-running upgrade of the A9 between Perth and Inverness.
  Covering 6.4km of mostly single carriageway, the scheme includes a tough mix of 4km of existing highway widening and 2km of new route construction through sensitive rural terrain near prot
  
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