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• HBC wins 240-home Sheffield brewery site revival

  23-07-2026 07:25
  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 Morgan Sindall revamp of Crystal Palace

  24-07-2026 16:15
  
  Planning approval has been granted for the redevelopment of the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre with main contractor Morgan Sindall set to start on site by the end of this year.
  Renovation work will bring the 15-hectare site up to a modern standard while showcasing its heritage and historic features.
  The project will see the centre’s facilities enhanced to support sports from the grassroots up to elite level.Richard Dobson, Area Director for Morgan Sindall in London, said: “We
  
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• Arcadis knocks back second bid offer from WSP

  24-07-2026 09:31
  
  Arcadis has rebuffed a second takeover approach from Canadian engineering giant WSP today, insisting an improved €51.5-a-share proposal still falls well short of the consultant’s true value.
  The Dutch design and engineering group confirmed WSP returned with a revised indicative offer after an initial €48.5-a-share approach, first revealed yesterday, was unanimously rejected by Arcadis’ executive and supervisory boards.
  The latest proposal, comprising cash and WSP shares, va
  
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• Battle starts for places in £8bn national roads upkeep shake-up

  24-07-2026 09:06
  
  Britain’s biggest highways contractors are gearing up for a fight over seven regional contracts as National Highways resets its approach to strategic roads upkeep.
  An invitation to tender for spots on the long-awited £8bn Maintenance and Response 2 framework will go out next month paving the way for a major overhaul of how England’s 4,500-mile strategic road network is maintained.
  The reset will see the current 10 maintenance contracts replaced as they expire from July 2028. Fi
  
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• Tier ones called up for £500m building safety framework

  24-07-2026 09:00
  
  Newcastle-based procurement body Prosper has launched the race for places on a new £500m national framework to deliver building safety remediation work.
  The four-year agreement is built around turnkey delivery, with a standalone principal contractor taking responsibility for complete projects from surveys through to passive and active fire safety works.
  Alongside the flagship principal contractor lot, Prosper is also seeking suppliers for specialist packages covering:Building safety consul
  
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• Crown Estate pushes ahead with £2bn Cambridge science hub

  24-07-2026 08:07
  
  The Crown Estate has lodged plans for a £2bn overhaul of Cambridge Business Park, paving the way for one of the UK’s biggest science-led regeneration schemes.
  The project will create up to 1.8m sq ft of laboratories, offices and R&D space alongside 500 homes in the emerging North East Cambridge Innovation District.
  The application forms part of The Crown Estate’s wider ambition to invest up to £1.5bn in UK science, innovation and technology.
  Commercial buildings of up
  
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• Worker falls from tipping bucket on fork lift

  24-07-2026 00:15
  
  A refurbishment contractor has been fined £90,000 after a man was left ‘physically ruined’ after falling from a tipping bucket on a fork lift truck in Kent.
  Aaron Back, 41, a father of four, spent months in hospital after the incident at the EMIR site on Wotton Road in Ashford on 28 March 2023.
  The then 38-year-old had been contracted by South East Refurbishment Limited to carry out work dismantling pipework. He was in a raised tipping bucket on a fork lift truck at the time wh
  
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• Kier lands leading Piccadilly role for Crown Estate

  23-07-2026 17:09
  
  Kier has been confirmed as main contractor for 10 Piccadilly in the heart of London.
  The job forms part of the next phase of the Crown Estate’s West End development pipeline alongside the retrofit of 21-29 Glasshouse Street where BAM is main contractor.
  The two developments will deliver 169,300 sq ft of new office, retail and hospitality space and mark the latest step in The Crown Estate’s long-term vision for its 10 million sq ft London portfolio.Kristy Lansdown, Managing Director o
  
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• Wates London reset continues as director to join from Mace Construct

  23-07-2026 16:34
  Wates has unveiled a new Commercial Director for Wates Construction London as the reset of its business across the capital continues.
  Kevin Grace will join in October from Mace Construct where he has spent the last 12 years lately as Commercial (Operations Director) leading projects including the £1.1bn British Library extension.
  Grace will be working alongside George Mosey who took over as Managing Director for Construction London earlier this year.The company said the latest appointment
  
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• Wates London reset continues as director to join from Mace

  23-07-2026 16:34
  
  Wates has unveiled a new Commercial Director for Wates Construction London as the reset of its business across the capital continues.
  Kevin Grace will join in October from Mace where he has spent the last 12 years lately as Commercial (Operations Director) leading projects including the £1.1bn British Library extension.
  Grace will be working alongside George Mosey who took over as Managing Director for Construction London earlier this year.The company said the latest appointment “for
  
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• Morgan Sindall lifts profit targets after blockbuster first half

  23-07-2026 08:52
  
  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
  
  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
  
  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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• Hochtief bags £250m Blackpool Silicon Sands data centre

  23-07-2026 08:34
  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
  
  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
  
  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
  
  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
  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
  
  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
  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
  
  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
  
  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
  
  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
  
  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
  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
  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
  
  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
  
  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
  
  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
  
  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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