construction news

The director of a construction company responsible for developing Liverpool’s troubled £200m Chinatown scheme has been disqualified for seven years. Former Bilt Group Limited boss David Green, 56, from Liverpool, signed a disqualification undertaking following an...

Balfour Beatty has secured a £70m contract to deliver a major upgrade and conversion of the Scottish capital’s former Royal Infirmary building. The complex refurb and restoration job will see Balfour convert the Grade-A listed building into a major educational hub to...

Yorkshire construction and property group Caddick has reported record turnover after a bumper year in the beds and sheds markets. Group-wider revenue climbed by nearly 50% to £226m, while pre-tax profits also grew by over a third to £11m. With a £4.6bn development...

KONE Corporation has won an order to equip Google’s new UK headquarters building with lifts and escalators. The KGX1 building at London’s King’s Cross is an 11-storey-tall and 312-metre-long “landscraper”being built by Lendlease. Andrew Martin, director, Real Estate...

Andrew Wyllie is retiring as CEO of Costain after 14 years leading the business. His replacement is current managing director of the group’s natural resources division Alex Vaughan who will take charge in May. Wyllie will now pursue a non-executive career and he...

The Government has set out new plans to force utility reinstatement and pothole repair contractors to raise the guarantee on road repairs from two to five years. Under new plans to update the code of practice for reinstating a road after street works the Government...