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Glencar lands £28m Peel Ports Liverpool shed job

Glencar lands £28m Peel Ports Liverpool shed job

The construction of a 240,000-square-foot warehousing facility at Alexandra Docks as part of Peel Ports' Port of Liverpool development has been announced...
Fire safety provisions push Durkan to £9.3m loss

Fire safety provisions push Durkan to £9.3m loss

According to chairman Daniel Durkan, the business might expand by doing renovation and retrofit work on homes. Operationally, the company saw a...
Balfour Beatty wins £160m Scottish hospital projects

Balfour Beatty lands £160m Highland Hospitals dual deal

NHS Highland has awarded Balfour Beatty a contract for two projects in Caithness. As the primary supply chain partner and managing contractor...
Roofing boss jailed after worker dies in five-metre fall

Roofer Jailed after worker fell more than 16 feet to his Death

Following the death of Andrei-Ionel Hutanu in 2019, Patrick McCarthy was sentenced to 14 months in prison. No scaffolding or other safeguards...
Galliford Try and Midgard bag 350 homes deal at Brent Cross

Galliford Try and Midgard win a 350-home build-to-rent contract

Galliford Try and Midgard have been chosen by joint venture developers Related Argent and Invesco Real Estate to carry out two significant...
Australian firm buys £300m gigaplant backer Britishvolt

Australian firm to buy £300m gigaplant backer Britishvolt

The project's main contractor, ISG, halted building last summer when the money ran out for the project. The new owners have now...
Inflation added £23bn to the cost of construction last year

Inflation ‘adds £23bn to annual construction output costs’

This is the first time annual construction value has surpassed £200 billion, representing a 15% increase in nominal terms over 2021 output...
Inland Homes losses now set to hit £91m

Losses at troubled Inland Homes to top £90m

In a trading update released in September of last year, the housebuilder forewarned that losses would total £37.1 million as it began...
Eurocell gets £1m insurance payout after cyber attack

Eurocell got £1m insurance payout following a cyber attack

The data breach hampered trading in July, which allowed an unauthorised third party to access worker information. The end...
Garden village in Darlington gets £43m infrastructure cash

Government puts £43m towards Darlington Burtree Garden Village

Over a 20-year period, 2,000 new houses will be constructed on the site, along with up to 200,000 square metres of commercial...
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