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Kingspan has written to the government to dispute a claim heard at the Grenfell Tower Inquiry that it tried to mislead MPs over safety tests. In December, on the day the public inquiry was paused after a member of its team tested positive for COVID-19,&he…

Portsmouth-based structural steel specialist Conder Allslade has gone into administration. Administrators from RSM took over at the £16m-turnover firm earlier this month. The company’s accounts for 2019 were overdue, but its last filed accounts for the ye…

The Welsh Government has backed the creation of a £1bn ‘Cardiff Crossrail’ light railway system. The move came as it accepted a series of recommendations on how to reduce congestion on the M4 by the South East Wales Transport Commission – a body set up&he…

Turner & Townsend has been appointed project manager on the new £200m Cambridge Children’s Hospital. The new hospital will be built on the existing Cambridge Biomedical Campus in the city. It will integrate mental and physical healthcare, along with a…

The director of a small home renovation contractor has been given a suspended prison sentence after a worker’s pelvis was fractured when a number of plasterboards fell on him. Subcontractors employed by SS Reforms were refurbishing a house in Thames Ditto…

Midlands contractor G F Tomlinson has commenced works on the new Greenwood House Medical Centre in Burntwood, Staffordshire. Due for completion in September, the new £3.4million medical facility, located on Lichfield Road, will bring first class healthcar…

First phase of modular units lifted in at Ebbsfleet Green Primary School in Ebbsfleet Garden City, Kent 98 Units will be lifted in over four one-week phases using a 200-tonne crane This is the largest modular build that Kier London and South East has mana…

St. Modwen Industrial & Logistics has completed a deal to bring an international e-commerce solutions provider to St. Modwen Park Tamworth, signing a 15-year agreement to occupy the 321,204 sq ft speculatively-built unit. Providing integrated supply c…

hub South West, the public-private partnership funded by Scotland’s business development agencies, local authorities, and leading Tier 1 contractors, has added Hugh LS McConnell to its supply chain framework as a new Tier 1b Contractor partner. The compan…

PATRIZIA (UK) and Warwickshire County Cricket Club Appoint Contractor for Infrastructure Works and BTR Scheme Winvic Construction Ltd, a leading main contractor that specialises in the design and delivery of multi-sector construction and civil engineering…