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• Multiplex tops October contracts league

  06-11-2024 08:28
  A £300m order for a new teaching block at Glasgow University helped to catapult Multiplex to the top of the contract wins rankings in October.
  The Keystone project will be the fifth major building to be constructed through the University of Glasgow’s £1.3bn campus development programme.
  Lendlease ranked second in the month as its development arm advanced plans for the Dovetail Building, a 24-storey office scheme on Houndsditch in the eastern cluster of the City of London.The UK
  
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• Construction grew 1.8% last year despite sharp Q4 fall

  12-02-2026 09:19
  Construction firms ended 2025 in growth territory despite a poor final quarter that saw output fall sharply in the final months
  Latest data from the Office for National Statistics shows total construction output rose 1.8% in 2025 compared with 2024 — the fifth consecutive year of annual expansion.
  But momentum faded sharply in the final three months of the year, according to official figures published this morning.Total output fell 2.1% in Quarter 4 (October to December) compared with Quar
  
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• Firms fined after two killed when MEWP overturns

  12-02-2026 08:57
  Two companies have been fined following an incident which resulted in the deaths of two workers in West Yorkshire.
  Lee Horton, 58, and Daron Pickstock, 43, were killed when an industrial warehouse racking system collapsed as it was being tested at Castefields Industrial Estate in Bingley on 29 October 2020.
  The racking was being tested at a site belonging to Space Productiv Ltd, of which Horton, from Ilkley, was the managing director. Pickstock, who was from Chorley, was self-employed and workin
  
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• Salford set for record £525m wastewater reset

  12-02-2026 08:48
  Costain, Jacobs, Murphy, MWH, Mott MacDonald Bentley and VolkerStevin are gearing up to deliver the biggest ever overhaul of Salford’s sewer network under United Utilities’ new AMP8 enterprise model.
  The integrated team will spearhead a £525m programme to modernise wastewater assets across the city over the next five years – slashing storm overflows, boosting resilience and tightening environmental performance.
  At the heart of the push are two flagship treatment works upg
  
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• Morgan Sindall eyes bumper 2026 on record workload

  12-02-2026 08:46
  Morgan Sindall has lined up another profit upgrade after its high-flying Fit Out arm roared into 2026 ahead of plan.
  The group said trading momentum has accelerated since the turn of the year, putting 2026 on course to beat previous expectations.
  A 17% jump in secured order book and preferred bidder work to £19.1bn has given the contractor its strongest ever opening position for a new financial year.In a trading update ahead of releasing 2025 full-year results due in a fortnight, the firm
  
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• Funding agreed for £220m Paddington overstation job

  12-02-2026 08:31
  The joint venture between Helical and TfL’s property company Places for London has agreed a £220m development financing facility with PIMCO Prime Real Estate for the Paddington Over Station Development.
  The deal will allow main construction to start on the Grimshaw designed scheme which will see 235,000 sq ft new‑build office development positioned directly above the northern entrance to Paddington station overlooking the Grand Union Canal.
  Enabling works started last June
  
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• Hill bags £45m Kent high-rise flats job

  12-02-2026 08:25
  Hill Partnerships has landed a £45m deal to build 103 flats for Maidstone Borough Council on the former Springfield Library site in the Kent town.
  The firm beat rival bids from Higgins and Lovell to secure the two-block scheme, which includes  a 10-storey tower.
  The contract runs from an anticipated start date of 6 March 2026 through to 1 December 2029.Approved plans comprise 43% one-bed flats, 47% two-beds and 11% three-beds. The development also includes 68 basement parking spaces a
  
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• Willmott Dixon gets start date for £43m Kent leisure job

  12-02-2026 08:09
  Willmott Dixon will move on site this spring to start demolition works for Gravesend’s long-awaited new Cascades Leisure Centre.
  The £43m project will feature a 25m main pool, 17m learner pool, aqua play and flume, spectator seating, a six-court sports hall, multi-level soft play, party and community rooms and a café.
  Willmott Dixon was named construction partner last September under a direct award via the Pagabo framework, initially taking the scheme through pre-construction.
  
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• Barratt Redrow £1bn safety upgrade works shift up a gear

  11-02-2026 09:20
  Barratt Redrow has stepped up remediation works across its building safety and concrete frame legacy portfolio, with more than £1bn of costs set to flow over the next four years.
  The house builder said this morning it is pressing ahead at pace, shifting decisively from investigation to delivery.
  Its building safety provision fell to £829m at the half year after £73m was spent on remediation in the six months to December. Crucially, no new issues emerged that required an uplift
  
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• Two arrested after 999 construction fly-tipping call

  11-02-2026 08:42
  Two men have been arrested after construction waste was dumped in a field near Romford.
  Essex Police responded to a 999 call after waste was left on private land close to the M25’s junction with the M11, in the village of Stapleford Tawney.
  Officers swooped on the field on last week arresting a 55-year-old from Horley in Surrey, and a 25-year-old from Mullaghbawn in County Armagh.They were taken to a police station and questioned by officers on behalf of the Environment Agency, which is le
  
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• Green light for Liverpool Street Station revamp

  11-02-2026 08:39
  The City of London Corporation has approved plans for a major redevelopment of Liverpool Street Station.
  The proposals will deliver a state-of-the-art, fully accessible station, alongside new commercial, cultural and public spaces.
  Policy Chairman of the City of London Corporation, Chris Hayward, said: “This redevelopment of Liverpool Street station is a major step forward for the Square Mile.“It will support the City’s dynamic business ecosystem with state-of-the-art infrastru
  
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• D-Day for £37bn NHS hospital framework

  11-02-2026 08:34
  Contractors are expecting a decision shortly on the winners for the £37bn Hospital 2.0 Alliance framework.
  The deal will deliver the new hospital building programme over the next 12 years.
  The Enquirer understands that contractors are expecting a decision this month.One said: “A lot of people have been on tenterhooks over this since the start of the year but it looks like a decision is imminent.”
  The bid race opened 12 months ago and last summer a shortlist of 16 firms was anno
  
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• Severfield hires ex-ISG finance chief to steer turnaround

  11-02-2026 08:19
  Severfield has appointed former ISG finance boss Andrew Page as chief financial officer and executive director in a key boardroom move as it pushes ahead with its transformation plan.
  Page joins the steelwork specialist next week, succeeding interim finance chief Jan Bramall, who has held the role since 1 November 2025.
  The board ran a full external search before landing on Page, who most recently served as interim chief financial officer at ISG.He brings heavyweight listed company experience, h
  
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• Barhale secures hat-trick of Thames Water sewer schemes

  10-02-2026 10:22
  Barhale has landed a hat-trick of development-driven sewer upgrade scheme for Thames Water at Brent Cross, Basingstoke and Benson.
  The civils specialist has secured the trio of jobs under Thames Water’s £200m-plus AMP8 Major Projects framework for Developer Services and Infrastructure Programmes.
  The framework targets complex infrastructure needed to unlock development, covering diversions, requisitions and lateral drainage tied to third-party schemes.At Brent Cross, adjacent to the
  
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• Subcontractors wanted across the Midlands

  10-02-2026 09:09
  Subcontractors and suppliers can find work opportunities across the Midlands at the latest event hosted by Constructionline.
  Its latest Marketplace Live will be held in Birmingham on Thursday 26 February at Villa Park.
  The regional networking event features several of the UK’s leading contractors, public-sector authorities and other organisations.Exhibitors will include Seddon Construction, United Infrastructure and Wates Construction.
  Registration for Marketplace Live is open to paid memb
  
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• Muse go-ahead for 1,600-home Solihull town centre reset

  10-02-2026 08:45
  Muse has secured the planning green light for a wholesale remake of Mell Square in Solihull town centre, paving the way for a 10-year, 1,600-home regeneration anchored by new retail, leisure and public realm.
  The Solihull Council-approved scheme will be taken forward by Muse under a new name – Holbeche Place – marking the start of a full-scale reset for the ageing mid-20th-century shopping precinct.
  Alongside new homes spanning build-to-rent and affordable tenures, the plans include
  
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• JRL lands £68m North London housing tower job

  10-02-2026 08:44
  JRL Group has landed a £68m contract to build a 30-storey housing block in North London after Clarion Housing Group stepped in to rescue a long-stalled development.
  A different tower project at the Argenta House site in Stonebridge Park was originally started by Henry Construction Projects. This ground to a halt during foundation works when the contractor fell into administration in June 2023, leaving the site dormant.
  Since then, Clarion Housing Group, through its Latimer development arm
  
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• Skanska seals £273m delayed Broadgate office overhaul

  10-02-2026 08:43
  Skanska has got the go-ahead to overhaul and extend one of the last major offices at the Broadgate campus upgrade in London.
  The contractor has finally signed off a deal worth £273m with British Land and GIC under their Broadgate joint venture to deliver the delayed 1 Appold Street office revamp.
  The project will see the tired 1980s office block stripped back and rebuilt into a low-carbon workplace designed by Piercy&Company.A major sustainability push sits at the heart of the scheme,
  
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• School building winners to give apprentice guarantees

  10-02-2026 08:37
  Contractors looking to win school building projects will have to show that they are providing opportunities for apprentices and T Level students.
  The government is looking to create 13,000 new placements as part of the upcoming education estates strategy overseeing the £20bn School Rebuilding Programme through to 2034-35.
  It said: “The government’s commitment to long-term funding through to 2034-35 means construction firms can plan ahead and invest in training.“A longer c
  
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• DfT tests market for privately financed HS2 Euston station job

  09-02-2026 15:32
  The Department for Transport has fired the starting gun on private sector involvement at HS2 Euston, launching early market engagement for a design, build, finance and maintain partner on the long-delayed London terminus.
  The move signals the Government’s intention to push ahead with a public-private partnership to deliver the HS2 Euston station itself, alongside confirmed public funding to bring the high-speed line into Euston.
  Under the emerging model, a private sector partner would take
  
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• Long-empty Southend HMRC tower set for 557-flat rebirth

  09-02-2026 09:17
  Developer Comer Homes has secured full permission to proceed with one of Southend’s biggest residential conversions clearing the decks for construction to start on the long-stalled major office to flats scheme.
  The firm has sealed final Section 106 legal agreement with Southend Council allowing it to a redevelop the former HMRC tower on Victoria Avenue.
  The green light unlocks plans to convert the vacant 1960s Alexander House office block into 557 flats above ground-floor commercial space
  
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• RED starts revamp of Lincoln’s Inn Fields

  09-02-2026 08:53
  RED Construction Group has been appointed for the first £13m phase of refurbishment work at 20-23 Lincoln’s Inn Fields in central London by developer Dorrington.
  RED Construction’s London team will deliver the first phase of works as part of a wider redevelopment of the five historic interconnected buildings spanning 15-23 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, totalling around 70,000 sqft, on the north side of the square.
  Works include a back to frame refurbishment, core extension, roof
  
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• Glencar tipped for latest London data centre

  09-02-2026 08:24
  Glencar is understood to have won the race for a new £100m+ data centre in north London.
  The Enquirer understands that Glencar is set to sign a deal with Pure Data Centres for the next phase of its £1bn campus at Brent Cross.
  The site will contain one of the world’s largest living walls wrapping around the scheme spanning 7,400 square metres and featuring over 750,000 plants.Sources close to the project said the latest building had been a straight race with Winvic which Glencar
  
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• Muse to lead redevelopment of Wakefield shopping centre

  09-02-2026 08:22
  Morgan Sindall’s urban regeneration arm Muse is set to steer the demolition-led redevelopment of The Ridings shopping centre in Wakefield.
  The local Council has announced it is pressing ahead with plans to remake the city centre around housing, leisure and culture.Under the long-term vision, The Ridings would be flattened and replaced by a new Cathedral Quarter delivering more than 1,000 homes, wrapped around new public squares, green space, leisure uses and major cultural facilities.The o
  
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• Robertson Construction bounces back into the black

  09-02-2026 08:21
  Scottish and North of England contractor Robertson Construction Group has pulled off a sharp turnaround, bouncing back into the black after a bruising prior year.
  The Elgin-based contractor posted a pre-tax profit of £31m for the year to 30 June 2025, reversing a near £13m pre-tax loss the year before.
  Turnover slipped back to £575m from £627m, but the softer top line was more than offset by a strong recovery in operating performance as tighter project control and improve
  
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• Developer Salboy opens construction division to wider market

  06-02-2026 14:43
  Developer Salboy is making its construction arm available to the wider market with a focus on time-critical and distressed housing schemes.
  Salboy Construction was established in April 2024 initially focused on supporting some of the group’s own developments as well as select sites financed by the groups’ investment arm Salboy Capital.
  The contracting division has grown to a team of 16 construction professionals, quantity surveyors and procurement specialists and has delivered 120 ho
  
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• 15 firms bag £175m works Cumberland works deal

  06-02-2026 08:49
  Cumberland Council has lined up 15 contractors on a £175m capital works construction framework covering building, civils and combined schemes across its region.
  Regional contractors Cubby Construction, Story Contracting, and Thomas Armstrong (Construction) fared best in the procurement race securing spots on all three lots.Capital Works (Construction) FrameworkGeneral Building Works (£0.2m–£3m)Cubby Construction
  Equans Regeneration
  Michael Thompson (Public Works Contracto
  
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• Ardmore turns corner after bruising two years

  06-02-2026 08:26
  Ardmore Group has signalled a sharp turnaround in fortunes, saying it is on track to return to profitability after two punishing years dominated by legacy construction problems and the collapse of its former contracting arm.
  The London-based contractor has just published delayed statutory results for the year to 30 September 2024, showing a £41m loss on turnover down 16% at £346m.
  The result was dragged down by losses on legacy projects, years of remedial works and a £15m adjud
  
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• £3bn early works plan to lift Parliament renewal out of limbo

  06-02-2026 08:14
  MPs and Peers are being pressed to back a £3bn fast-start works package to finally get ahead of the spiralling repair bill at the Palace of Westminster and tee up the biggest restoration project in its history.
  A new report from the Parliamentary Restoration and Renewal Client Board calls for a seven-year “phase one” programme of early and enabling works to halt the cash drain on patch repairs and ageing systems, while kicking the hardest political decision on delivery to 2030.
  
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• £3bn early works plan to kick-start major Parliament restoration

  06-02-2026 08:14
  MPs and Peers are being pressed to back a £3bn fast-start works package to finally get ahead of the spiralling repair bill at the Palace of Westminster and tee up the biggest restoration project in its history.
  A new report from the Parliamentary Restoration and Renewal Client Board calls for a seven-year “phase one” programme of early and enabling works to halt the cash drain on patch repairs and ageing systems, while kicking the hardest political decision on delivery to 2030.
  
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