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• BAM starts £147m brace of school rebuilding jobs

  11-11-2026 21:23 via Construction Enquirer
  
  BAM has secured a brace of school rebuilding contracts worth £147m in the South East under the Department for Education’s School Rebuilding Programme.
  The contractor is starting work on a £102m redevelopment of Steyning Grammar School in West Sussex and a £45m rebuild of Bradfields Academy in Chatham, Kent.
  At Steyning, BAM will consolidate the school’s three existing sites into a single purpose-built campus with capacity for up to 2,400 students.The scheme involves construction of four n
  
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• Laing O’Rourke puts Middle East arm up for sale

  11-11-2026 11:47 via Construction Enquirer
  Laing O’Rourke is putting its Middle East business up for sale.
  Lumina capital advisors have been appointed to find a buyer for the division which has operated in the region for 50 years and employs 204 staff with a turnover of around £270m.
  The company said the sale would allow it to concentrate on long-term infrastructure projects in the UK and Australia.Group CEO Cathal O’Rourke said: “Laing O’Rourke was built on a simple but powerful idea – that there is a better way of doing thin
  
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• Salisbury’s £50m surgical hub clears planning hurdle

  11-11-2026 09:16 via Construction Enquirer
  
  Plans for a £50m surgical and diagnostic hub at Salisbury District Hospital have secured planning permission.
  Wiltshire Council’s decision clears the way for Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust to progress enabling works for the three-storey development.
  But main construction remains dependent on NHS England signing off the full business case, which is expected to be considered in the coming months.
  The 6,209 sq m Diagnostic and Surgical Hub, known as DASH, will house five operating theatres, four
  
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• Forterra in profit warning as brick sales slide

  11-11-2026 08:59 via Construction Enquirer
  
  Brick giant Forterra is warning that profits will come in below market expectations this year as sales continue to slide.
  The board now expects full-year adjusted EBITDA to be £50m, compared with market forecasts of £54.8m.
  The fall comes as brick sales have slumped 11% this year hitting group turnover.Forterra said: “The Group has announced inflationary price increases effective from January 2027. However, in the absence of meaningful improvement in volumes, profitability will remain constr
  
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• Bellway latest house builder to cut jobs

  11-11-2026 08:49 via Construction Enquirer
  
  Bellway has become the latest house builder to make redundancies as the market stalls following job cut plans by Vistry and Taylor Wimpey.
  One former Bellway staffer said: “We have been reading in the Enquirer about what  has been happening at our rivals and we are now in the same boat.”
  It is understood shocked staff were told about the plans last week with redundancies planned at head office and across regional divisions.
  A Bellway spokesperson said: “Bellway regularly reviews its opera
  
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• Willmott Dixon picked for £46m Welsh school

  11-11-2026 08:42 via Construction Enquirer
  
  Willmott Dixon has been named preferred contractor for the long-awaited £46m Ysgol Bro Hyddgen school rebuild in Mid Wales.
  Powys County Council has selected the firm to take forward the new all-age school in Machynlleth, replacing outdated buildings spread across two sites.
  The appointment follows early market engagement launched in March for a 540-pupil campus on the existing school grounds.Willmott Dixon will now work with the council, school leaders and governors to develop detailed plans f
  
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