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• Costain bags £150m Thames Water wastewater programme

  17-08-2026 18:51 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Costain has secured a programme of around £150m of wastewater treatment upgrades from Thames Water across 15 sites.
  The package forms part of Thames Water’s wider plan to upgrade more than 250 sewage treatment and sewer sites between 2025 and 2030.
  Costain will split delivery into eastern and western regions, each led by a regional senior project manager.
  Eastern sites cover Barkway, Brentwood, Long Reach, Little Hallingbury, North Weald and Standon.
  The western programme includes Al
  
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• Wates hires Willmott Dixon veteran as operations director

  17-08-2026 12:06 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Wates Construction has appointed former Willmott Dixon senior director Roger Forsdyke as UK operations director as it looks to step up growth across the country.
  Forsdyke will join Wates on 1 September and take charge of operational teams across all regions, with responsibility for performance across the UK construction business.
  He will also lead the next phase of Wates Construction’s business optimisation programme.Forsdyke spent 23 years at Willmott Dixon, most recently serving as chief
  
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• Ashbrook fleet up for sale after £18m new JCB kit order

  17-08-2026 09:38 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Cheshire-based plant hirer Ashbrook has selected Euro Auctions as its disposal partner as it undertakes a major fleet refresh following a record £18m order for new equipment from JCB.
  The first 35 machines will go under the hammer at the Euro Auctions Leeds sale from 19–22 August, offering buyers a selection of low-hour, manufacturer-maintained and serviced equipment.
  Highlights include site dumpers from 3 to 9 tonnes, 15 CAT rollers, manlifts from Manitou, Skyjack and Genie, a late,
  
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• Willmott Dixon cleared to rebuild RAAC-hit Stockport school

  17-08-2026 09:13 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Willmott Dixon has secured planning for a near £50m rebuild of Bramhall High School in Stockport.
  Work is expected to start in January 2027 on the new three-storey school, which will replace the existing sprawling campus hit by reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete problems.
  Sheppard Robson has designed the replacement school for 1,350 pupils on the existing 36-acre site off Seal Road.The new building will be constructed alongside the current school before most of the existing estate is d
  
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• Health centre win for Morgan Sindall

  17-08-2026 08:41 via constructionenquirer.com
  Morgan Sindall Construction has been appointed to deliver the new £16.9m Thornbury Health Centre on the former Thornbury hospital site in Gloucestershire.
  Construction is due to start by the end of this month with the development due to complete by the end of summer 2027.
  Appointed by South Gloucestershire Council through the Southern Construction Framework, the health centre will provide a new home for Severn View Family Practice and Streamside Surgery.The development will provide a total
  
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• Building compliance firm Ventro buys electrical engineer

  17-08-2026 08:28 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Building compliance specialist Ventro Group has acquired Walsall based electrical engineer and contractor  R.D. Jukes & Co Ltd.
  Family run R.D. Jukes & Co was founded in 1968 and currently employs 29 people with a turnover of £6m.
  The firm has extensive technical expertise across mains infrastructure, power  distribution and complex electrical systems, including standby power, UPS and IPS  solutions designed to support critical environments.The business also delivers
  
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• Lovell to start first phase of 450-home Horsham scheme

  17-08-2026 08:04 via constructionenquirer.com
  Lovell Partnerships is expected to start work in October on a 206-home redevelopment of the former Novartis Pharmaceuticals site in Horsham.
  The 2.72ha scheme will deliver houses and apartments around the site’s landmark 1930s Art Deco clock tower, with 35% of the homes affordable.
  Architect Ayre Chamberlain Gaunt has designed the development to keep the locally listed tower as the centrepiece of the new neighbourhood.
  Multi-storey wings either side will be demolished because of significan
  
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• Bouygues UK losses top £200m in four years

  17-08-2026 08:03 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Bouygues UK has racked up more than £200m of pretax losses over the last four years after taking another £76m hit in 2025.
  The building contractor saw revenue edge up 5% to £395m last year from £376m as activity increased across live projects.
  But pretax losses more than doubled from £32m to £76m, with the latest setback blamed on subcontractor performance, labour shortages and continuing building safety liabilities.Parent group support continued during the ye
  
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• Taylor Woodrow breaks into Devon roads framework

  17-08-2026 07:45 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Taylor Woodrow has broken into Devon County Council’s highways framework in a refresh of contractors for the next four years.
  The Vinci-owned contractor is the only completely new entrant on the renewed framework, joining four incumbents on the main £48m resurfacing and reconstruction lot.
  Taylor Woodrow Infrastructure will work alongside Cormac Contracting, E & JW Glendinning, Kennford Tarmacadam and Tarmac Trading when the framework starts in September.Devon highways partners r
  
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