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• WSP and Costain line up for West London Orbital route design

  02-11-2026 18:46 via Construction Enquirer
  
  Transport for London has brought in WSP, Costain and architect Fereday Pollard to help plot a new London Overground route across west London.
  The team will support the next development stage of the proposed 18.5km West London Orbital, linking Hounslow with Hendon.
  Costain will bring engineering and construction planning expertise to help shape how the railway could be delivered, with Fereday Pollard contributing station design experience.The proposed route would improve connections across west a
  
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• Willmott Dixon bags £18m Bury Interchange first phase

  02-11-2026 18:24 via Construction Enquirer
  
  Willmott Dixon has secured an £18m contract to deliver the first phase of Bury Interchange’s redevelopment for Transport for Greater Manchester.
  Work starts this month on tram platform improvements and a 57m steel pedestrian footbridge over the Metrolink lines.
  The bridge will provide a direct link to Union Square, with a new pedestrian route offering step-free access to Pyramid Park.It will also maintain passenger access to trams during the planned second phase, clearing the way for the wide
  
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• KierBAM JV confirms £600m Devonport dock upgrade

  02-11-2026 15:57 via Construction Enquirer
  
  Kier and BAM have secured a £600m main works contract to upgrade Devonport’s 10 Dock for submarine maintenance.
  Plymouth dockyard operator Babcock awarded the deal, which moves the team from early contractor involvement into the main works phase.
  The overhaul will prepare 10 Dock for deep maintenance of the Royal Navy’s Astute-class attack submarines.Existing dock walls will be strengthened, narrowing the dock, while part of the floor will be replaced with a reinforced concrete base support
  
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• Green light for £3bn Kent–Suffolk power link

  02-11-2026 09:22 via Construction Enquirer
  
  National Grid has secured development consent for its estimated £3bn Sea Link project, paving the way for construction to start early next year.
  The 138km electricity connection between Suffolk and Kent will include two converter stations, subsea and underground cables, and upgrades to the onshore transmission network.
  Construction is expected to begin in early 2027 and finish in 2031, subject to detailed delivery planning.
  National Grid has submitted project costs of £3.2bn to Ofgem in 2023/2
  
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• Developer lines up next phases at £180m Wigan mill scheme

  02-11-2026 09:21 via Construction Enquirer
  Heaton Group is lining up the next major phases of its £180m Cotton Works regeneration in Wigan after securing approval for 179 new homes.
  The local developer has already completed the first phase at the former Eckersley Mills complex, transforming Grade II-listed Mill One into offices, hospitality and leisure space.
  The restored mill now includes Heaton Group’s headquarters, The Three Mills pub, Grade A office space and rooftop bar and events space.Attention is now turning to Block A, the fi
  
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• Bugler Group sold to employee ownership trust

  02-11-2026 09:21 via Construction Enquirer
  
  Hertfordshire housing contractor Bugler Group has switched to employee ownership after the three owing Bugler brothers sold their shares to a trust.
  Andy, Kieran and Denis Bugler will remain in their current roles and continue running the Rickmansworth-based business.
  The group builds affordable and private sale homes across London and the South of England. It reported turnover of £125m and net profits of £8.5m for the year to March 2026.Bugler expects to at least match those results in the cu
  
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• 20 firms land £500m MAG airports minor works deal

  02-11-2026 09:21 via Construction Enquirer
  
  Manchester Airports Group has picked 20 contractors for a £500m framework covering jobs worth up to £5m each at its Manchester, Stansted and East Midlands airports.
  Lancashire building firm W H Good ranked most successful securing  a clean sweep of building and M&E places across all three airports.
  VolkerFitzpatrick bagged five spots in the contest for building, civils and M&E work packages.The framework will start in December and run for five years, with an option to extend for anoth
  
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• Balfour Beatty to build Britain’s biggest substation

  02-11-2026 09:20 via Construction Enquirer
  
  Balfour Beatty has been named as National Grid’s contractor for what is expected to be Britain’s largest electricity substation at Teesworks on Teesside.
  The deal emerged as National Grid Electricity Transmission announced it had bought the 73-acre Dorman Point site for the massive new power facility.
  The Teesside Node A substation will initially provide 1.44GW of additional electricity capacity to support major data centre, AI, advanced manufacturing and other energy-intensive developments
  
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• GMI checks in to York with sixth Dakota hotel job

  02-11-2026 08:49 via Construction Enquirer
  GMI Construction is to start main works on a 140-bedroom Dakota hotel inside York’s medieval city walls.
  The Leeds contractor is delivering the eight-storey scheme for Evans Property Group, with completion planned for spring 2028.
  Demolition of the former Northern House office block on Rougier Street is now complete, clearing the way for the new hotel on the constrained 0.7-acre site.The job is GMI’s sixth Dakota hotel, extending a relationship spanning developments in Leeds, Glasgow, Manche
  
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• Ibstock profit warning as brick sales plummet

  02-11-2026 08:47 via Construction Enquirer
  
  Ibstock is warning that performance during the second half of this year will be “materially below previous expectations” after brick sales continued to dive.
  In a trading update the materials giant said brick sales were 22% below expectations during the third quarter of 2026.
  The group said it is slashing production by 20% to avoid stockpiles and is continuing with a cost-cutting drive.Joe Hudson, CEO of Ibstock Plc, said: ‘’Trading conditions deteriorated sharply during the third quarte
  
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• Lucky escape for H&V workers after tower block roof fire

  02-11-2026 08:17 via Construction Enquirer
  A contractor has been fined after four workers had to flee a fire that engulfed the roof of a 14-storey apartment building under construction in Surrey.
  The four subcontractors were working under the control of C Watkins Plumbing Limited, installing an air source heat pump on the roof of the Old Telephone Exchange development in Staines-upon-Thames, when the incident happened on 26 July 2024.
  Sparks from welding work ignited uncovered rigid foam insulation that had been laid across the roof. The
  
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