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Ilke Homes put up for sale in battle to save modular builder
Works stops at factory and sites as loss-making offsite specialist fights for survival
Henry Construction crashes into administration
Hundreds of trade contractors hit by collapse of £400m revenue firm
Barratt to demolish 36 new homes with faulty foundations
Problems found on Cambridge estate
Firms readied for £750m Parliament repairs deal
Strategic Estate is renewing the estate repair framework
Magna Park developer to build 1.4m sq ft of spec sheds
Four major warehouse units to be spec built as total space hits 13m sq ft
Second staircases to delay resi tower projects by 9 months
Cost consultants cuts London tender price rise forecast to 2% this year
Plan approved for tallest resi tower in Wales
£55m project will be built next to Cardiff’s Central Square
Bowmer + Kirkland bags £46m events centre in Derby
Developer keeps to original fixed price contract figure despite inflationary pressures
Costain dropped from £1.3bn A66 road job
National Highways pulls Costain off TransPennine upgrade and demands its £1bn A12 widening now shared as a JV
Laing O’Rourke plans to cut 200 staff jobs
Dartford head office to see bulk of job cuts
SES Services restructures senior team
New MD Rob Clifford to head four new divisions at M&E specialist
Galliford Try ranks top in May contracts league
Kier holds pole position for highest value of work won over last 12 months
£800m NEPO construction framework winners
BAM, B&K, Caddick, Esh and Morgan Sindall secure places for first time
Manchester Uni reboots 3,300-bed campus plan
Initial £7m demolition package out to tender ahead of planning submission
Subcontractors wanted across Derbyshire
Register now to meet big name buyers at latest Constructionline event
House builder Lane End owes £12m to suppliers
Administrators probing claims by creditors about company transactions prior to failure
£500m Suffolk construction framework winners
Fourteen contractors and seven M&E specialists secure spots on East of England framework
Illegal cartel whistleblower reward raised to £250,000
Competition watchdog hikes rewards to flush out more construction bid rigging activity
McLaren wins £28m East London health centre job
New three-storey health centre to be built in Hornchurch
Balfour sells telecoms division to Obelisk
Irish infrastructure firm continues expansion plans with Balfour acquisition
Blackburn M65 £20m junction 5 revamp to go-ahead
Balfour Beatty to be confirmed this week to start mobilising in November for 2025 start
Unfit planning system means 4,700-year wait for onshore wind
Call for urgent planning reform for even a chance to meet net zero and housing ambitions
Commercial work boosts construction new orders
Buyers report inflation easing to its weakest for 32 months
Mace, T&T and Atkins secure place on MoD framework
JV wins provide technical services on £5bn defence optimisation programme
Enabling works start on £200m Cambridge station
Murphy starts site preparation ahead of main contractor award next month
Industry aims to be almost diesel-free by 2035
Big players agree first steps to eliminate diesel from most sites
Weston Homes plans £50m East London scheme
Land deal for 147 homes at Town Quay Wharf in Barking
Lee Marley Brickwork hires Countryside regional FD
Matt Sheehan joins from house builder’s partnerships arm
Demolition deal awarded on Chancery Lane refurb
General Demolition Ltd lands demolition and enabling works package
Contractors no longer lagging on digital transformation
Construction shrugs-off image as late adopter of technology