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• Crane load failure at Hinkley: Video

  28-11-2025 08:18 via constructionenquirer.com
  Dramatic footage has emerged of a crane load falling at the giant Hinkley Point C nuclear construction site in Somerset.
  The Enquirer has been forwarded the video which has been widely circulated on social media.Main contractor Bylor – the joint venture of Bouygues and Laing O’Rourke – is understood to have suspended all similar lifting operations after the accident.The Enquirer understands the incident occurred earlier this month when two assembled formwork shutters were
  
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• Reforms urged to unlock £262bn London office upgrade boom

  08-12-2025 09:18 via constructionenquirer.com
  London developers are urging ministers and planners to overhaul the rules blocking a huge pipeline of retrofit and redevelopment work across the capital’s ageing office estate.
  More than half of central London’s workspace – 147m sq ft – is now classed as secondary stock and falling behind energy and quality standards.Upgrading it could unleash £262bn of investment value and £11.4bn a year in rental income, according to new analysis by the London Property Allia
  
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• Jobless young people to get six-week construction course

  08-12-2025 09:00 via constructionenquirer.com
  The government has unveiled plans to get more youngsters on Universal Credit into construction.
  Construction is one of the focus industries alongside health, social care and hospitality for the new £820m initiative.
  The government said jobless youngsters will “be referred to one of up to six pathways by their work coach: work, work experience, apprenticeship, wider training, learning or a workplace training programme with a guaranteed interview, designed in partnership with emp
  
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• Employee-owned plant dealer Warwick Ward collapses

  08-12-2025 08:45 via constructionenquirer.com
  Employee-owned plant dealer Warwick Ward has fallen into administration after 55 years in business with 89 jobs axed.
  Interpath restructuring partners James Lumb and James Clark were appointed joint administrators to Warwick Ward (Machinery) attempts to refinance, sell or secure new investment failed.
  Headquartered in Barnsley, Warwick Ward grew from a family-run firm founded in 1970 into a major stockist and supplier of new and used earthmoving and waste recycling machinery, also operating out
  
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• Tucker M&E went under owing suppliers £4.7m

  08-12-2025 08:42 via constructionenquirer.com
  Hull based Tucker Mechanical & Electrical Building Services went into administration owing its supply chain £4.7m.
  Documents filed at Companies House by administrator Exigen Group reveal the scale of debt at the £25m turnover specialist which had been in business since 1973 and also had a regional office near Birmingham.
  Documents in the report stated that Tucker “heavily” relied on subcontractors after cutting directly employed staff to cut operating costs.The firm r
  
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• Graham bags £45m Uni of East London campus build

  08-12-2025 08:12 via constructionenquirer.com
  The University of East London has handed Graham the £45m job to deliver its New Academic Building that forms the centrepiece of a wider £170m Stratford Health Campus redevelopment.
  The win marks UEL’s biggest capital project to date as it pushes ahead with its Vision 2028 strategy to expand medical and healthcare training across east London.
  The New Academic Building will house teaching, learning and research spaces and, subject to General Medical Council approval, will become
  
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• £700m Scottish super-hospital goes to ministers for final approval

  05-12-2025 09:22 via constructionenquirer.com
  NHS Lanarkshire has signed off the full business case for its planned new £700m University Hospital Monklands and passed Scotland’s first fully digital, net-zero carbon hospital to ministers for final approval.
  The milestone clears the way for construction to start next year on the 185-acre Wester Moffat site in Airdrie.
  Laing O’Rourke is leading pre-construction on the Monklands Replacement Project, adding to its track record of delivering 18 major hospitals since 2010.The exi
  
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• Ravenscraig 200-acre site remediation gets go-ahead

  05-12-2025 09:15 via constructionenquirer.com
  A huge clean-up of the derelict Ravenscraig steelworks site will kick off early next year after planners gave the green light for one of Scotland’s biggest ever land-remediation jobs.
  North Lanarkshire Council has approved extraction and remediation works across 200 acres of the 1,200-acre plot – unlocking the next phase of brownfield regeneration scheme.
  The programme involves ripping out deep steelworks foundations and shifting more than 2.7m cubic metres of material to prepare lan
  
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• Roofer verbally abused safety inspector

  05-12-2025 09:12 via constructionenquirer.com
  A Cornish roofer has been sentenced after failing to comply with requests for information from an HSE inspector and verbally abusing her.
  The HSE investigated after workers had been observed carrying out roof replacement work without any scaffolding being in place.
  The regulator identified unsafe work on a roofing job carried-out by Steven Hendry, 40, from Liskeard, leading HSE inspector Hatti Shipp, to serve a prohibition notice against him.As a result, further information was requested from He
  
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• Gateway 2 sign-off for landmark Stratford student tower

  05-12-2025 09:05 via constructionenquirer.com
  Student rooms developer Unite has bagged Building Safety Regulator Gateway 2 sign-off for its landmark 41-storey Meridian Square tower project in Stratford, London.
  Contractor RG Group is hotly tipped for the job, which will rise next to Westfield Stratford City, but has still to get a start date.
  Architect BDP designed the 952-bed tower that offer several roof terraces and a fully kitted-out gym aimed at London’s growing student market.
  As part of the project, Unite will also help deliver
  
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• 13 firms win £150m Lincolnshire roads race

  05-12-2025 08:50 via constructionenquirer.com
  Lincolnshire County Council has picked a 13-strong line-up of contractors for its new four-year highways framework.
  Firms selected will carry out general works and major resurfacing jobs worth up to £150m.
  The framework will run from January 2026 to January 2030 and is split into three lots for schemes ranging from small junction improvements to big-ticket A-road upgrades and primary route resurfacing across the county.
  General works £0–£1.5m (Total value £18m)Amalg
  
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• Kori wins £30m London care home job

  05-12-2025 08:31 via constructionenquirer.com
  Kori Construction has landed the contract to build a £30m care home in north London.
  Main construction work will start next month on the site in Highgate according to construction data specialist Barbour ABI.
  The job is due for completion in March 2028 and will provide a 61-bed care home including specialist dementia care facilities.The scheme has been designed by Wolff Architects and includes social areas, shared dining rooms, an art studio, a spa and gym, a screening room and a library.
  
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• £125m South London estate rebuild approved

  05-12-2025 08:15 via constructionenquirer.com
  London’s Lewisham Council has given the green light to the £125m regeneration of the 1950s-built Achilles Street estate in New Cross.
  The £125m construction programme will see 278 homes built, delivering 60% affordable housing, new maker spaces and a major upgrade of streets and public areas.
  The scheme replaces outdated housing with 122 new council homes for social rent and 44 shared ownership properties, increasing the number of social rent homes on the estate from 87. Nearly
  
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• Buyers report steepest output fall for five-and-half years

  04-12-2025 10:50 via constructionenquirer.com
  Construction buyers reported a “sharp and accelerated reduction” in output levels last month.
  The latest bellwether S&P Global UK Construction Purchasing Managers’ Index fell to 39.4 in November from 44.1 in October.
  It was the lowest reading since May 2020 while lower volumes of construction output have now been recorded for eleven months in a row.Activity fell below the 50 no change mark in all sectors with housing activity (index at 35.4), commercial construction (43.8)
  
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• Anglian Water to shift £1.5bn work to single Tier 1 partner

  04-12-2025 08:50 via constructionenquirer.com
  Anglian Water has put contractors on notice for a major bid race to appoint a single design and build firm or JV to deliver a £1.5bn programme of flagship projects across AMP8 and AMP9.
  The new Major Infrastructure Delivery Framework marks a clear shift from the multi-contractor alliance model that underpinned its AMP4 and AMP5 programmes.
  Now Anglian intends to try a more commercial approach with a sole Tier 1 delivery partner that operates in parallel with its existing Strategic Pipeline
  
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• Balfour Beatty powers up order book 20% to record £18.4bn

  04-12-2025 08:45 via constructionenquirer.com
  Balfour Beatty is set to close the year with a turbocharged order book and cash pile as the UK energy boom powers the pipeline to record levels.
  This morning Balfour said it would reach year-end with an order book around 20% higher at roughly £18.4bn, driven by more than £3.5bn of new UK power-generation work and the long-awaited inclusion of £3bn of Sizewell C civils.
  Revenue is expected to come in more than 5% ahead of last year’s £10bn, with UK construction and s
  
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• Balfour Beatty powers up order book 20% to over £20bn

  04-12-2025 08:45 via constructionenquirer.com
  Balfour Beatty is set to close the year with a turbocharged order book and cash pile as the UK energy boom powers the pipeline to record levels.
  This morning Balfour said it would reach year-end with an order book around 20% higher at more than £20bn, driven by more than £3.5bn of new UK power-generation work and the long-awaited inclusion of £3bn of Sizewell C civils.
  Revenue is expected to come in more than 5% ahead of last year’s £10bn, with UK construction and s
  
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• Electrical apprentice falls through fragile roof

  04-12-2025 08:29 via constructionenquirer.com
  Two companies have been fined after an electrical apprentice fell through a roof while installing CCTV in Weymouth.
  The then 20-year-old had been working for electrical contractor Tristan G Murless Limited at one of its sites at a commercial industrial estate on 13 July 2022.
  He had been using a makeshift crawling board when he fell around 11 feet through a fragile roof to the concrete floor below.
  The incident took place on the roof of a lean-to attached to a main warehouse. The project involve
  
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• BAM gets green light for £140m Cardiff Central revamp

  04-12-2025 08:20 via constructionenquirer.com
  BAM has got the green light to start the £140m overhaul of Cardiff Central after the Government approved the final business case for Wales’ busiest station.
  Work will begin in spring 2026 on a major rebuild delivering a new southern entrance, a larger concourse and an extended platform 0 to ease chronic congestion for the 35,000 passengers using the station each day.
  The £140m package includes nearly £78m from the UK Government, £40m from Cardiff Capital Region and
  
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• Monster TBM hunt starts for Lower Thames Crossing

  03-12-2025 21:14 via constructionenquirer.com
  Bouygues Murphy JV has entered talks to buy a monster TBM to drive one of the widest tunnels in the world for the Lower Thames Crossing.
  The JV will use just one machine to drive both 16.4m wide north and southbound tunnels, keeping costs down while not impacting the total programme schedule.
  Tunnelling machine procurement gets underway as it emerged the mega project cost is heading towards £11bn, up from the £9bn cited earlier this year. The Government is due to foot £3.1bn of
  
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• BGS Utilities gets investment boost for growth plans

  03-12-2025 15:54 via constructionenquirer.com
  Multi-utility infrastructure provider BGS Utilities has received a six-figure investment boost to assist the firm’s future growth.
  Based out of its offices in Birchwood Park, Warrington, BGS Utilities works across the industrial and commercial, and house building sectors across the North West and surrounding areas.
  The investment from NPIF II – FW Capital Debt Finance, which is managed by FW Capital as part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund II (NPIF II) is assisting the firm
  
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• Builder ordered to pay back stolen plant and car money

  03-12-2025 15:48 via constructionenquirer.com
  A builder who stole almost £85,000 in hired plant and used company funds to pay for his high-performance car will go to jail if he does not repay more than £190,000 in the next three months.
  Vasile Hrusca used more than £67,000 from his own failing company in 2019 to pay off the remaining balance on a hire purchase agreement for an Audi RS6 which he had bought the previous year for just under £75,000.
  He also sold seven diggers and other machinery which were still subject
  
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• Iconic London meat and fish markets line up Royal Docks move

  03-12-2025 09:02 via constructionenquirer.com
  Traders at London’s iconic Billingsgate and Smithfield markets have agreed a preferred new home at the Royal Docks paving the way for massive development plans at the exisiting sites.
  The City of London Corporation and GLA have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to relocate both historic wholesale markets at Albert Island next to City Airport in Newham.
  The ambitious plans now hinge on Parliamentary approval to formally end trading at the current sites in 2028 and planning consent from N
  
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• Amey rail maintenance workers to hold strike ballot

  03-12-2025 08:35 via constructionenquirer.com
  Rail union TSSA will ballot hundreds of members employed by Amey after accusing the contractor of trying to push through a ‘below-inflation pay offer amounting to a real-terms cut in wages.”
  Around 300 Amey rail maintenance workers across Scotland, Wales, North East, Midlands, London and all Southern regions will be asked to support strike action in the ballot which opens today and closes on Monday 15 December.
  The action follows Amey’s decision to proceed with a pay offer of 2
  
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• Water orders flow as Kier nets £44m ECI haul

  03-12-2025 08:29 via constructionenquirer.com
  Kier has scooped another pair of early-stage AMP8 deals from Southern Water, adding £44m of work to its fast-growing water portfolio.
  The two ECI packages cover design and development work across a dozen wastewater treatment sites and come on top of £29m of similar AMP8 wins secured earlier this year.
  A £20m tranche covers early-stage design at six plants: Chickenhall, Fullerton, Leeds, Newnham Valley, Paddock Wood and Sellindge.
  Upgrades will lift capacity and boost compliance
  
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• £350m plan lodged for Leatherhead town centre revamp

  03-12-2025 08:16 via constructionenquirer.com
  The Kier Property and Mole Valley District Council joint venture has fired the starting gun on a £350m overhaul of Leatherhead town centre in Surey.
  The Leret Partnership is targeting two key brownfield sites at Bull Hill and the Swan Centre as part of the council’s wider Transform Leatherhead programme.
  Its application will see 480 homes, workspace and leisure, including more than 10,000 sq m of modern Net Zero Carbon offices aimed at attracting new employers into the town.Bull Hil
  
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• Willmott Dixon tops contracts league after £136m Luton win

  03-12-2025 08:15 via constructionenquirer.com
  Willmott Dixon has topped the November work-won rankings after bagging a £136m mixed-use scheme in Luton town centre and a run of education jobs that pushed it clear of the chasing pack.
  Its flagship Luton Stage project, procured through the Southern Construction Framework, will transform the old Bute Street Shoppers car park into a major new destination with 292 flats, commercial space and a purpose-built events venue.
  Morgan Sindall took second place after another strong month of regiona
  
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• Civils firm files administration notice as part of restructure

  02-12-2025 16:47 via constructionenquirer.com
  The directors of Essex-based contractor E.J. Taylor & Sons Limited have filed a Notice of Intention (NOI) to Appoint Administrators as part of a proposed restructuring process supported by FRP Advisory.
  The NOI was filed at Court on Monday to provide the company with protection while marketing of the business is undertaken and a pre-packaged sale is progressed.
  The business continues to trade normally in the meantime and said it will continue to make supplier and subcontractor payments.The c
  
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• Tilbury Douglas appoints new fit-out MD

  02-12-2025 15:24 via constructionenquirer.com
  Tilbury Douglas has appointed Jack Dixon to the newly created role of Managing Director at its fit-out division Paragon.
  Dixon joins from Structure Tone London where he spent nine years latterly as a divisional director.
  Craig Tatton, Chief Executive Officer at Tilbury Douglas said: “This appointment further invests in Paragon’s development, building on its established reputation.“Looking ahead, there’s a clear opportunity to grow our fit-out business with targeted privat
  
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• Kier CFO to step down after six-year turnaround mission

  02-12-2025 09:31 via constructionenquirer.com
  Kier CFO Simon Kesterton is stepping down at the end of the year after six years helping steer the group through its biggest financial reset in a generation.
  Kesterton joined when Kier was on the ropes with a battered balance sheet and mounting debt.
  He leaves with the group firmly back on its feet, cash discipline tightened and major IT and procurement shake-ups pushed through.
  CFO change: Simon Kesterson steps down after six years as Tom Hinton hired to drive next phase of growth
  His replaceme
  
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