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• Balfour appoints management consultant to lead strategy

  01-09-2026 15:19 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Balfour Beatty has appointed Emma Loxton to the new role of Chief Strategy Officer.
  Loxton joins from management consultant McKinsey & Company where she spent more than a decade advising major industrial and infrastructure businesses on strategy, transformation and growth.
  She was a partner at McKinsey, most recently leading the UK Advanced Industries and Transport & Infrastructure practices.
  Earlier in her career, Loxton was a Senior Policy Advisor in the UK Government’s Prim
  
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• Gilbert-Ash confirms £40m RIBA HQ revamp deal

  01-09-2026 14:50 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Gilbert-Ash has signed off the £40m job to overhaul the Royal Institute of British Architects’ landmark London headquarters.
  The contractor is carrying out the major refurbishment and restoration of the Grade II* listed 66 Portland Place building in Westminster, with completion due in September 2027.
  The Portland Place scheme will act as a pilot project for the Net Zero Carbon Building Standard and involves a major upgrade of the building fabric and services.Gilbert-Ash is stripping
  
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• Laing O’Rourke to start £400m Lancashire prison job

  01-09-2026 14:20 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Laing O’Rourke has secured the enabling works deal for a major new £400m-plus prison planned alongside HMP Garth and HMP Wymott in Lancashire.
  The Ministry of Justice has now signed off the package for the 1,700-place category C jail near Leyland, clearing the way for early works ahead of completion targeted in 2031.
  The scheme, presently known as HMP Garth 2, will provide around 74,500 sq m of accommodation across seven four-storey house blocks, each holding about 245 prisoners.Init
  
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• Barnwood warns of tougher market after profit fall

  01-09-2026 09:12 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Employee-owned regional building contractor Barnwood saw pre-tax profit fall by more than a third last year as tighter margins offset continued revenue growth.
  Turnover at the Gloucestershire-based group rose 15% to £118m in the year to December 2025 from £103m, while pre-tax profit fell to £3.3m from £5.1m.
  Operating profit dropped to £2.7m from £4.7m, cutting operating margin to 2.3% from 4.5%.Despite the squeeze, Barnwood doubled its annual contribution to
  
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• Data centre plan unveiled for former IBM site

  01-09-2026 09:03 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Plans have been submitted to transform part of Greenock’s former IBM site into a major data centre development.
  Slate Island Developments Ltd has applied to Inverclyde Council for the development at Spango Valley, off Inverkip Road.
  IBM opened its Spango Valley operation on the site in 1954 and the facility closed in 2017 with buildings being demolished in 2020.Slate Island Developments is now seeking to regenerate part of the former technology and industrial site for modern digital infras
  
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• Brick maker battles “long trough” in construction

  01-09-2026 08:42 via constructionenquirer.com
  Michelmersh saw brick dispatches drop another 9% in the first half of this year with volumes more than 25% below the recent 2022 peak.
  The sales slump has forced the manufacturer to juggle factory output to meet decreased demand including the complete closure of its Charnwood site in Leicestershire with the loss of 30 jobs.
  Things are unlikely to improve anytime soon following a “long trough” in construction activity.Chief Executive Officer Ryan Mahoney said: “The lack of posit
  
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• Government names line-up for £120bn FM framework

  01-09-2026 08:34 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Government procurement chiefs have named the major FM contractors that will compete for the biggest jobs under a new framework valued at up to £120bn.
  Amey, CBRE, Equans, Kier, Mitie, OCS, Serco, Skanska, Sodexo, Vinci Facilities and Wates are among 18 firms appointed to the top Total Facilities Management lot covering individual contracts worth more than £15m a year.
  The other winners on the highest value work lot are Compass, Dalkia, G4S Facilities Management, ISS, JLL, Robertson F
  
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• Bidding set to start for £800m south Wales civils framework

  01-09-2026 08:34 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Five councils are gearing up to invite contractors to bid for places for the next-generation South West Wales civil engineering framework worth up to £800m.
  Over 60 firms on the existing civils framework now face a fight to retain places on the four year deal with invitations to tender due out on 5 October.
  Carmarthenshire County Council is leading the procurement with Ceredigion, Neath Port Talbot, Pembrokeshire and Swansea councils.Natural Resources Wales, Powys County Council and compan
  
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• Graham to build Sky Livingston Campus

  01-09-2026 08:22 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  GRAHAM has been appointed main contractor for Sky’s new Livingston Campus after planning commission was granted for the 21,000 sq metre scheme in West Lothian.
  The project will bring  together Sky’s existing operations into a modern workplace for around 3,000 employees.
  It will replace four existing buildings at Kirkton Campus and leased space on the Alba Campus, creating a new site spanning 15 acres.Chris MacLeod, regional director at GRAHAM Building North, said:“Sky&rsqu
  
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