construction news

McLaren Construction and Sir Robert McAlpine have secured places for the first time on one of the industry’s most prized frameworks. The firms are among 11 contractors to have won the fourth generation Southern Construction Framework, which promises a...

Lakehouse Contracts is now in administration and the company has ceased trading. Creditors are now being urged to get in contact with insolvency specialist CMB Partners. The demise of the company follows a turbulent seven months since it was sold last August for...

Court Collaboration in partnership with Torsion Developments has submitted a planning application for a £65m two-tower block development in Leeds. Local contractor Torsion Group has worked closely with the developers as their construction partner for the build to rent...

A Balfour Beatty-led joint venture has been named preferred bidder for Network Rail’s £1.5bn Central Track Alliance contract. Balfour Beatty has an 80% share in the ten-year alliance which will be responsible for the development, design and delivery of track renewals...

Brunel University London has called up firms to bid for a £40m teaching and learning building at its Middlesex campus. The seven-storey facility will replace the 1968 John Crank building on the university’s main campus and is timetabled to be completed in 2021....

A fifth member of a forgery gang responsible for making and supplying false identity documents including Construction Skills Certificate Scheme (CSCS) cards has been jailed for six years. Ukrainian national Oleksandr Sukhoviy, 39, was arrested by National Crime Agency...