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• Contractors unveiled for £250m battery storage site

  22-07-2026 23:10 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Fidra Energy has confirmed the contracting team for its £250m West Burton C battery energy storage project in Nottinghamshire after agreeing funding for the scheme.
  Construction of West Burton C will begin later this year and it is expected to become fully operational in 2028 on the site of the former West Burton coal power station.
  Fidra’s main contracting partners are Sungrow who will supply its batteries for the project and H&MV Engineering who will be the principal designer a
  
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• Aitch Construction expands with £80m turnover target

  22-07-2026 22:51 via constructionenquirer.com
  Aitch Construction is set to land another two deals in London as the expanding contractor targets turnover of £80m.
  The firm has traditionally focused on delivering work in-house for parent company Aitch Group who specialise in developing residential and commercial schemes across the capital.
  Aitch Construction is now looking to work with more external clients and the Enquirer understands work will start next year on two schemes.On Newington Causeway in Elephant & Castle Aitch is set t
  
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• NEC Contracts unveils the next generation of collaborative alliancing

  22-07-2026 17:22 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  NEC Contracts has unveiled the NEC4 Project Alliance Contract (PAC), the next generation of NEC alliancing contracts and a significant step forward for collaborative project delivery.
  Created by the NEC4 Contract Board in collaboration with the Alliance Steering Group, the PAC is a fully integrated, multi-party contract intended for publication in the final quarter of 2026.
  The PAC brings together the most successful features of established collaborative forms. It succeeds the PPC2000 Project Pa
  
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• Worker crushed as dumper truck overturns

  22-07-2026 14:21 via constructionenquirer.com
  A groundworks company has been fined after a worker was seriously injured when a dumper truck overturned.
  The incident happened on 10 October 2022 on a construction site in Ince. The driver had been reversing the one-tonne truck when it entered an unprotected excavation and overturned.
  The man, 27 at the time, was thrown from the vehicle as he was not wearing a seatbelt. He sustained crushing injuries to his leg, resulting in a broken foot and ankle.An HSE investigation found the man had not bee
  
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• Mace taps Permasteelisa for landmark City façade refurb

  22-07-2026 09:19 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Permasteelisa Group has been appointed by Mace Construct to deliver the complex façade refurbishment package at the overhaul of 60 Queen Victoria Street in the City of London.
  The specialist will strip the original façade from the nine storey office building before refurbishing and reinstalling it alongside newly manufactured replacement panels.
  Originally designed by architect Peter Foggo and completed in the late 1990s, the building is undergoing a £70m retrofit aimed at ex
  
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• Downwell gets going on Westminster Tower job

  22-07-2026 08:49 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Downwell Group has started main construction works for developer London Square on the transformation of Westminster Tower into luxury residential apartments on London’s South Bank.
  Gateway  Two approval has recently been signed off by the Building Safety Regulator allowing Downwell to start on the main construction phase.
  Downwell Group will be delivering a£9m package of enabling works, including soft strip, full de-cladding, high-level demolition, installation of a steel-framed
  
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• Henry Boot warns on profit as land sales slump

  22-07-2026 08:32 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Henry Boot has warned full-year profits will come in significantly below market expectations after a sharp slowdown in land sales and a slide into loss at its house building business.
  The Sheffield-based developer said profit before tax for 2026 would miss current forecasts of £20m as subdued transaction volumes and weaker market confidence continued to weigh on trading.
  The biggest setback came at land promotion arm Hallam Land, where plot sales more than halved to 556 in the first six mo
  
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• McLaughlin & Harvey lands £100m Rolls Royce deal

  22-07-2026 08:27 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  McLaughlin & Harvey has won a contract worth more than £100m to build a new combat air facility for Rolls-Royce in Bristol.
  Construction is scheduled to start later this year on the facility which will provide space for research, manufacturing and assembly for new product development for the future of air combat.
  Paul Pennington, Senior Vice President of Infrastructure, Defence, Rolls-Royce, said: “This complex facility is a physical manifestation of our commitment to novel techn
  
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• PfH names winners on £480m repairs and disrepair deal

  22-07-2026 08:13 via constructionenquirer.com
  Procurement for Housing has named the contractors that will compete for £480m of higher-value responsive repairs, void refurbishment and disrepair work under its latest national maintenance framework.
  The biggest names in the sector dominated the awards, with Axis Europe, Bell Group, Cardo Group, Chigwell London, CLC Contractors, Combined Facilities Management, Equans Regeneration, Ian Williams, Jones Building Group, Synergize, TW Group South Wales and United Living Property Services secur
  
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• PfH names winners on £480m repair and disrepair deal

  22-07-2026 08:13 via constructionenquirer.com
  Procurement for Housing has named the contractors that will compete for £480m of higher-value responsive repairs, void refurbishment and disrepair work under its latest national maintenance framework.
  The biggest names in the sector dominated the awards, with Axis Europe, Bell Group, Cardo Group, Chigwell London, CLC Contractors, Combined Facilities Management, Equans Regeneration, Ian Williams, Jones Building Group, Synergize, TW Group South Wales and United Living Property Services secur
  
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• Kier wins £120m Brum roads extension amid PFI hiatus

  22-07-2026 08:13 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Kier has secured a £120m extension to keep maintaining Birmingham’s roads as the city continues to grapple with the future of its stalled highways PFI.
  Birmingham City Council has directly awarded the contractor a fresh two-year interim deal from 1 August 2026, with an option to extend it by a further nine months until April 2029.
  The move keeps Kier in charge of the city’s highways network while the council works towards a long-term replacement for one of the UK’s bigges
  
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• Tilbury Douglas completes balance sheet turnaround

  22-07-2026 08:10 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Tilbury Douglas has completed a four-year financial turnaround, restoring its balance sheet to a positive net asset position after starting life as a standalone contractor in 2022 with net liabilities of around £80m.
  The latest milestone comes just six months after the business was still carrying net liabilities of £33m at the turn of the year, underlining the pace of its recovery.
  Alongside the balance sheet repair, Tilbury Douglas secured more than £500m of new work during th
  
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