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SCF starts hunt for £2bn+ framework contractors

26-06-2026 18:10 via constructionenquirer.com

The tender race has started for contractors to join Southern Construction Framework’s (SCF’s) sixth generation (SCF6) deal.
The current framework delivers around £500m of projects a year across London, the South East and the South West and the new deal will run for an initial four years from May 2027.
Delivered jointly by Hampshire and Devon County Councils, since its inception in 2006, SCF has supported the delivery of £10bn of public sector construction projects.SCF6 wi

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HS2 contractors fined £400,000 after tipper truck fall

26-06-2026 14:41 via constructionenquirer.com

A joint venture working on HS2 has been fined £400,000 after the driver of a 20-tonne tipper truck was injured when his vehicle fell off the edge of an excavation ramp.
The incident happened on 27 July 2021, at a site in Copthall North near Uxbridge, West London.
The site was being run by SCS Railways, a joint venture of Skanska Construction UK Limited, Costain Limited and Strabag AG.The tipper truck fell approximately two metres and landed on the driver’s side. The man behind the wh

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Scottish ministers halt £2.1bn Laing O’Rourke hospital job

26-06-2026 09:16 via constructionenquirer.com

Health chiefs have been sent back to the drawing board on plans for Laing O’Rourke to build a £2.1bn replacement for Monklands Hospital after ministers refused to sign off the scheme over affordability concerns.
Scottish health secretary Angela Constance said the proposed new hospital at Wester Moffat, near Airdrie, failed to represent value for money and ordered a “comprehensive redesign” of the project.
The decision throws fresh uncertainty over the programme and is lik

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Ministers fail to plug imported fabricated steel tariff gap

26-06-2026 09:05 via constructionenquirer.com

The Government has stopped short of closing a controversial loophole in its new steel tariff regime, prompting warnings that cheap imported fabricated steelwork will flood the UK market and put thousands of jobs at risk.
Ministers yesterday confirmed the final shape of the new safeguard measures ahead of their introduction on 1 July, after weeks of lobbying from the construction and fabrication sectors.
Under the plans, imported steel sections will face quotas and tariffs, but fabricated steelwo

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Hinkley M&E dispute leaves hundreds off site for three weeks

26-06-2026 08:21 via constructionenquirer.com

M&E works at the Hinkley Point C nuclear project have been disrupted for over three weeks after a workforce dispute spiralled into a stand-off that saw hundreds of operatives sent home.
The disruption was triggered when workers staged a sit-in protest on 2 June over safety concerns about new clocking-in stations, moved further into the job and away from canteens. Workers claimed the new clocking stations were dangerously close to a crane-lift zone which is denied by management.
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