construction news

An appeal by L Lynch Plant Hire and Haulage Ltd has seen an £800,000 fine for moving an abnormal load without proper notification reduced to £10,000. The hirer was stunned by the size of the fine in April which it blamed on a clerical error. The hire firm was charged...

Social housing procurement specialist Prosper has picked 34 firms for its next-generation £1bn nationwide energy efficiency retrofit framework. The four-year deal covers decarbonisation and investment works to domestic and public buildings across 10 English and Welsh...

Five cement and lime giants have raised £60m to advance plans to build the world’s first carbon capture scheme to decarbonise production in the UK. The Peak Cluster project will link cement and lime plants in the Peak District to a carbon storage site beneath...

Balfour Beatty has announced it is terminating all labour supply agreements with the Danny Sullivan Group. In a statement the contractor said:”During an audit of our UK labour suppliers, concerns related to the Danny Sullivan Group were identified. While these...

The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has notified three companies that they will be prosecuted for health and safety offences following a worker fatality at the Hinkley Point C construction site NNB Generation Company (HPC) Ltd, Bouygues Travaux Publics SAS and...

Doctors managed to successfully reattach the thumb of a teenage apprentice after was severed off by a rotating blade on a refurbishment site. The then 18-year-old resumed his apprenticeship with another firm following the procedure. He was employed as an apprentice...