News update

Two years after construction worker Anthony Bradley fell to his death at a site in south London, two firms have been fined £5,000 each. The defendants were Philip Drinkwater, who was trading as Prestige Roofing of Meldone Sheephouse Way, New Malden; and D…

Work will begin on the second phase of the £750m Station Hill project in central Reading on 9 August, with the start of demolition work to remove a multi-storey car park on the site. Planning permission for the second stage of the development, adjacent to…

One of the UK’s largest brickmakers has warned that material, labour and transport shortages could affect its sales in the second half of the year. In a half-year trading update this morning, Forterra said the shortages, combined with the ongoing threat o…

North East contractor Kapex Construction Limited has filed for administration. The Newcastle-based firm filed its application last week and Construction News understands FRP Advisory has been drafted in to handle the case with its appointment expected in …

Robertson suffered a £6.7m operating loss last year as the pandemic wrecked the company’s profit in just three months. The Scottish-based contractor incurred £11.5m of costs related to COVID-19 by the end of June 2020, when its financial year – lasting 15…

Now that restrictions are gradually being lifted, we can be confident that business events will return in the Autumn and look forward to welcoming you back to the Kent Event Centre on 7th October for the South East’s leading construction event. Kent Const…

Clowes breaks ground at Tournament Fields as works begin onsite for Manx Healthcare and one speculatively built unit. With an impressive list of international businesses choosing to make Warwickshire based Tournament Fields their UK home, its developers a…

More than a third of the homes have now been completed at a new housing development in Hanslope. Davidsons Homes is building 141 properties at The Wheatfields, off Long Street Road, where construction work began in July 2019. A total of 62 homes have now …

A housing association has been shortlisted for one of the UK’s leading people management awards.  Platform Housing Group – one of the largest social landlords in the county – has been shortlisted for the CIPD People Management Awa…

ISG, Kier, Laing O’Rourke and Wates have been appointed to the Ministry of Justice’s (MoJ) £1billion New Prisons Programme to build four new adult male prisons across the UK  – creating over 6,000 new, modern, prison places with a core focus on…