construction news

Accounting watchdogs at the Financial Reporting Council  have widened their probe into the auditing of Carillion in the run-up to its collapse. FRC chiefs will now be looking into the books for 2013 as well as the current investigations into auditing between 2014-17....

Laing O’Rourke has been confirmed as main contractor on the £283m Soho Place scheme above Tottenham Court Road Crossrail station. Developer Derwent has now signed off the main contractor deal as preliminary works continue at the site. The mixed use scheme will...

Kier Property has struck a deal with Miller Developments to take forward the Arena Central scheme in Birmingham. The deal to buy the scheme hands Kier development rights for three further phases of the site’s existing masterplan, building a further 526,000 sq ft....

House builder Persimmon’s pre-tax profits topped £1bn for the first time last year. The firm posted record profits after seeing share price falls yesterday following reports the government is examining Persimmon’s practices under the Help to Buy scheme for...

Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering Limited has been fined £600,000 after a worker was killed by an excavator during work on the Third Don Crossing in Aberdeen. Aberdeen Sheriff Court heard that between 4 January 2016 and 13 January 2016 Balfour, as principal contractor,...

Housing delivery agency Homes England has started the hunt for an infrastructure contractor to construct a bridge and link road required to deliver new homes in Burgess Hill, West Sussex. The winning bidder will build a 0.7km single carriageway road with a corridor...