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• Cygnet and SACE launch new rail sector service

  16-02-2023 18:33 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Site support specialist Cygnet Resources Limited has formed a new joint venture with Structural Asset Consulting Engineers Limited.
  SACE Projects brings together the experience of the two companies to deliver a robust turnkey solution for clients in the rail industry.
  Liam Marshall, Director Structural Asset Consulting Engineers Limited (SACE) said: “We are very excited to expand on our Structural Engineering solutions to the Rail industry with enabling / maintenance works alongside our te
  
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• Morgan Sindall lifts profit targets after blockbuster first half

  23-07-2026 08:52 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Morgan Sindall has hiked profit targets for its Construction and Fit Out businesses after a record first half powered by booming building workloads and a surge in margins.
  This morning the contractor posted pre-tax profit of £116m for the six months to 30 June, up 22% on last year, as revenue climbed 8% to £2.56bn.Net cash strengthened to £418m while its secured order book reached £12.2bn, swelling to £19.5bn including preferred bidder work.Construction and Fit Out
  
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• Sisk lands £38m London Irish Centre rebuild

  23-07-2026 08:35 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Sisk has secured the job to deliver the £38m redevelopment of the London Irish Centre in Camden.
  The firm is due to start work in January next year on the long-planned overhaul of the charity’s Camden Square headquarters, with the new centre scheduled to reopen in the first quarter of 2029.
  Designed by Coffey Architects, the three-storey redevelopment will retain the building’s original street façade while creating a modern cultural, welfare and community hub for the Iri
  
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• Hochtief lands £250m Blackpool Silicon Sands data centre deal

  23-07-2026 08:34 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Blackpool Council has selected Hochtief Data Centre Partner UK as preferred concessionaire for the £250m first phase of its flagship Silicon Sands digital campus beside Blackpool Airport.
  The first phase will deliver a 6MW carbon friendly data centre alongside around 20,000 sq ft of office and research space.The facility has already secured planning permission and will use liquid immersion cooling technology, with waste heat captured and fed into a proposed district heat network serving th
  
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• HBC lands 240-home Sheffield brewery site revival

  23-07-2026 07:25 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Contractor HBC has been lined up to deliver the first phase of Capital&Centric’s regeneration of the former Cannon Brewery site in Sheffield after the 240-home scheme secured planning.
  The green light clears the way for work to begin on the 4.2-acre former Stones Brewery site in Neepsend, where the developer plans to create a new mixed-use neighbourhood with around 500 homes.
  HBC will build the opening phase comprising 240 flats, alongside the first elements of a wider masterplan that
  
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• Green light for 54-storey multi-tenure Canary Wharf tower

  23-07-2026 07:24 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Plans for a 54-storey mixed-tenure residential tower at Canary Wharf have been given the planning green light, clearing the way for the redevelopment of the 77 Marsh Wall office site into 820 homes.
  Developer Areli and British Airways Pension Trustees secured approval from Tower Hamlets for the scheme, which will see the site’s existing 17-storey office block, built in the early 1990s, demolished.
  This will be replaced with what the developer describes as the UK’s largest integrated
  
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• Contractors unveiled for £250m battery storage site

  22-07-2026 23:10 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Fidra Energy has confirmed the contracting team for its £250m West Burton C battery energy storage project in Nottinghamshire after agreeing funding for the scheme.
  Construction of West Burton C will begin later this year and it is expected to become fully operational in 2028 on the site of the former West Burton coal power station.
  Fidra’s main contracting partners are Sungrow who will supply its batteries for the project and H&MV Engineering who will be the principal designer a
  
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• Aitch Construction expands with £80m turnover target

  22-07-2026 22:51 via constructionenquirer.com
  Aitch Construction is set to land another two deals in London as the expanding contractor targets turnover of £80m.
  The firm has traditionally focused on delivering work in-house for parent company Aitch Group who specialise in developing residential and commercial schemes across the capital.
  Aitch Construction is now looking to work with more external clients and the Enquirer understands work will start next year on two schemes.On Newington Causeway in Elephant & Castle Aitch is set t
  
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• NEC Contracts unveils the next generation of collaborative alliancing

  22-07-2026 17:22 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  NEC Contracts has unveiled the NEC4 Project Alliance Contract (PAC), the next generation of NEC alliancing contracts and a significant step forward for collaborative project delivery.
  Created by the NEC4 Contract Board in collaboration with the Alliance Steering Group, the PAC is a fully integrated, multi-party contract intended for publication in the final quarter of 2026.
  The PAC brings together the most successful features of established collaborative forms. It succeeds the PPC2000 Project Pa
  
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• Worker crushed as dumper truck overturns

  22-07-2026 14:21 via constructionenquirer.com
  A groundworks company has been fined after a worker was seriously injured when a dumper truck overturned.
  The incident happened on 10 October 2022 on a construction site in Ince. The driver had been reversing the one-tonne truck when it entered an unprotected excavation and overturned.
  The man, 27 at the time, was thrown from the vehicle as he was not wearing a seatbelt. He sustained crushing injuries to his leg, resulting in a broken foot and ankle.An HSE investigation found the man had not bee
  
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• Mace taps Permasteelisa for landmark City façade refurb

  22-07-2026 09:19 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Permasteelisa Group has been appointed by Mace Construct to deliver the complex façade refurbishment package at the overhaul of 60 Queen Victoria Street in the City of London.
  The specialist will strip the original façade from the nine storey office building before refurbishing and reinstalling it alongside newly manufactured replacement panels.
  Originally designed by architect Peter Foggo and completed in the late 1990s, the building is undergoing a £70m retrofit aimed at ex
  
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• Downwell gets going on Westminster Tower job

  22-07-2026 08:49 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Downwell Group has started main construction works for developer London Square on the transformation of Westminster Tower into luxury residential apartments on London’s South Bank.
  Gateway  Two approval has recently been signed off by the Building Safety Regulator allowing Downwell to start on the main construction phase.
  Downwell Group will be delivering a£9m package of enabling works, including soft strip, full de-cladding, high-level demolition, installation of a steel-framed
  
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• Henry Boot warns on profit as land sales slump

  22-07-2026 08:32 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Henry Boot has warned full-year profits will come in significantly below market expectations after a sharp slowdown in land sales and a slide into loss at its house building business.
  The Sheffield-based developer said profit before tax for 2026 would miss current forecasts of £20m as subdued transaction volumes and weaker market confidence continued to weigh on trading.
  The biggest setback came at land promotion arm Hallam Land, where plot sales more than halved to 556 in the first six mo
  
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• McLaughlin & Harvey lands £100m Rolls Royce deal

  22-07-2026 08:27 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  McLaughlin & Harvey has won a contract worth more than £100m to build a new combat air facility for Rolls-Royce in Bristol.
  Construction is scheduled to start later this year on the facility which will provide space for research, manufacturing and assembly for new product development for the future of air combat.
  Paul Pennington, Senior Vice President of Infrastructure, Defence, Rolls-Royce, said: “This complex facility is a physical manifestation of our commitment to novel techn
  
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• PfH names winners on £480m repairs and disrepair deal

  22-07-2026 08:13 via constructionenquirer.com
  Procurement for Housing has named the contractors that will compete for £480m of higher-value responsive repairs, void refurbishment and disrepair work under its latest national maintenance framework.
  The biggest names in the sector dominated the awards, with Axis Europe, Bell Group, Cardo Group, Chigwell London, CLC Contractors, Combined Facilities Management, Equans Regeneration, Ian Williams, Jones Building Group, Synergize, TW Group South Wales and United Living Property Services secur
  
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• PfH names winners on £480m repair and disrepair deal

  22-07-2026 08:13 via constructionenquirer.com
  Procurement for Housing has named the contractors that will compete for £480m of higher-value responsive repairs, void refurbishment and disrepair work under its latest national maintenance framework.
  The biggest names in the sector dominated the awards, with Axis Europe, Bell Group, Cardo Group, Chigwell London, CLC Contractors, Combined Facilities Management, Equans Regeneration, Ian Williams, Jones Building Group, Synergize, TW Group South Wales and United Living Property Services secur
  
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• Kier wins £120m Brum roads extension amid PFI hiatus

  22-07-2026 08:13 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Kier has secured a £120m extension to keep maintaining Birmingham’s roads as the city continues to grapple with the future of its stalled highways PFI.
  Birmingham City Council has directly awarded the contractor a fresh two-year interim deal from 1 August 2026, with an option to extend it by a further nine months until April 2029.
  The move keeps Kier in charge of the city’s highways network while the council works towards a long-term replacement for one of the UK’s bigges
  
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• Tilbury Douglas completes balance sheet turnaround

  22-07-2026 08:10 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Tilbury Douglas has completed a four-year financial turnaround, restoring its balance sheet to a positive net asset position after starting life as a standalone contractor in 2022 with net liabilities of around £80m.
  The latest milestone comes just six months after the business was still carrying net liabilities of £33m at the turn of the year, underlining the pace of its recovery.
  Alongside the balance sheet repair, Tilbury Douglas secured more than £500m of new work during th
  
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• Civils firms upbeat on pipeline despite tough first quarter

  21-07-2026 11:36 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Civil engineering contractors are shrugging off a weak start to the year after stronger order books fuelled confidence that infrastructure workloads will rebound over the next 12 months.
  The latest Civil Engineering Contractors Association workload survey found order books climbed to their highest level for three quarters, with a net balance of 19% of firms reporting fuller pipelines.Looking ahead, a net 60% expect workloads to increase over the coming year, while 55% forecast growth in new work
  
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• OCS strikes £3.1bn deal to buy Mitie

  21-07-2026 09:16 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Facilities management giant OCS has agreed a recommended £3.1bn cash takeover of rival Mitie to create one of the UK’s biggest outsourced services groups with combined annual revenues of around £8.5bn.
  Under the terms of the deal, Mitie shareholders will receive 218.5p a share in cash and retain the planned 3.1p final dividend, valuing the offer at up to 221.6p a share.
  The bid represents a 47% premium to Mitie’s closing share price on Monday and values the business at &p
  
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• 5,000-home Royal Docks mega scheme set for 2028 start

  21-07-2026 08:53 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Dubai-based developer Arada has accelerated plans for its £2.5bn Thameside West regeneration in London’s Royal Docks aiming to start construction in early 2028.
  The developer has confirmed architect Gensler, engineer Arup and landscape designer Planit are leading the professional team on the opening phase of the 5,000-home waterfront scheme.
  It aims to submit a planning application later this summer for the first stage, which will deliver 1,500 homes across six buildings.The 47-acre
  
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• Kier closes in on £12bn order book after strong year

  21-07-2026 08:24 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Kier is closing in on a £12bn order book as it targets growth from the surge in UK spending on water, nuclear and defence infrastructure.
  The contractor’s order book rose 8% to around £11.9bn at the end of June, securing more than 90% of forecast revenue for the current financial year.
  In a full-year trading update ahead of publishing its annual results in September, Kier said revenue and profit for the year to June were now expected to come in at the top end of market expectat
  
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• Skills cards stats show youngsters turning to construction

  21-07-2026 08:22 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The number of industry skills cards issued to young workers has jumped significantly as construction becomes more attractive to the under-25s.
  New figures published by the CSCS Alliance show that cards issued to workers under the age of 25 rose by  8.8% between 2023 and 2025 – jumping from 86,798 to 94,444.
  The highest increases were seen in the electrotechnical,  utilities and plant sectors.Under-25s now account for 19% of all CSCS-logoed cards issued.
  Growth in skilled roles (9
  
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• Green light for Derby city centre regeneration scheme

  21-07-2026 07:58 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Plans to reshape Derby’s city centre Market Place have taken a big step forward after outline planning was granted for the former Assembly Rooms site.
  The plans are being brought forward by council development partners VINCI UK Developments and ION Developments.
  Approval allows the Council to now submit an application to discharge the planning conditions attached to the demolition of the former Assembly Rooms.Work to demolish the site is expected to take around 12 months. Once this is comp
  
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• Torsion Construction files administration notice

  20-07-2026 23:37 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Leeds based Torsion Construction has filed a notice of intention to appoint an administrator.
  Directors said the move was designed to give them breathing space as they battle to save the £165m turnover business which specialises in student accommodation, retirement living and build to rent jobs across the North and Midlands.
  Other companies within the wider Torsion Group, including the development and care home operations, are unaffected by the move and continue to trade as normal.
  Th
  
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• RED lands £42m Bristol and Bath office double

  20-07-2026 08:56 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  RED South West has landed more than £42m of office refurbishment work after securing contracts to deliver flagship schemes in Bristol and Bath.
  Investor BlackRock and development manager LS Estates has picked the firm to deliver the major overhaul of Portwall Place in Bristol, alongside an £8m refurbishment of Pinesgate West in Bath for WPV Developments.
  Portwall Place is the larger of the two schemes and is expected to become the South West’s biggest commercial office refurbis
  
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• Muse picked to spearhead Bletchley station quarter revival

  20-07-2026 08:42 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Milton Keynes City Council has picked Muse to lead a major regeneration around Bletchley station for new homes and shops as the town prepares for the arrival of East West Rail.
  The nationwide regeneration specialist has signed a development deal with the council to prepare a masterplan covering major development sites on both the eastern and western sides of the station.
  Working alongside Milton Keynes Development Partnership, Muse will bring forward plans for a mixed-use neighbourhood featuring
  
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• Severn Trent reveals timetable for £25bn deal race

  20-07-2026 08:39 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Severn Trent Water is preparing to launch a pre-market engagement notice to start talks with the supply chain for a new generation of capital delivery frameworks worth up to £25bn over the next 8–15 years across the Midlands.
  The frameworks will cover the AMP9, AMP10 and AMP11 investment periods.
  Procurement is expected to start early next year with the frameworks designed to engage a diverse range of partners from major international contractors to regional and local SMEs.
  Potential
  
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• Railpen wins consent for London major office retrofit

  20-07-2026 08:24 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Railpen has secured planning approval for the redevelopment of its 12 Smithfield office building in the City of London.
  The £34bn Railways Pension Scheme manager will transform the existing six-storey office opposite Smithfield Market into a flagship headquarters building as part of the wider £400m regeneration of the historic district.
  Designed by Henley Halebrown, the project will retain and upgrade the existing structure while replacing the façade, extending the upper floor
  
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• Ethical Power contracting arms go into administration

  20-07-2026 08:22 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Renewable energy specialist Ethical Power has placed some of its contracting operations into administration.
  In a company statement the firm said: “This is to confirm that in June, two of Ethical Power’s contracting Entities (Ethical Power Connections and Ethical Power Group) were placed into administration. On Friday 26th June we also filed notice of intention to appoint administrators for Ethical Power Renewables, another contracting entity.
  “These contracting entities were d
  
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