construction news

Scottish building services giant McGill & Co has fallen into administration with the loss of 374 jobs. Staff found out the bad news on Friday when Blair Nimmo and Geoff Jacobs of KPMG LLP took control of the company. The administrators blamed challenging trading...

Kier is understood to be in pole position to take British Land’s 350,000 sq ft mixed-use regeneration scheme near Spitalfields Market on London City fringe. Blossom Street scheme covers three sites over two acres, fronting onto Shoreditch High Street and Norton...

SD Sealants’ tiling department has won a £250,000 package on a Cala homes site in Gloucestershire. The 59 Lansdown project is a new residential development in Cheltenham Spa. SD Sealants will be carrying out extensive tiling work across Lansdown’s 42 one and...

Specialist building envelope contractor Prater has opened a new, larger office in Quinton, Birmingham to support major projects across the Midlands. Prater’s design and estimating teams in Birmingham will move from the current shared office accommodation to the newly...

Nixon Hire has acquired the toilet hire division of modular buildings specialist Elliot. The transfer of Loohire is due to complete by the end of February. Graham Nixon, Managing Director at Nixon Hire said: “We have ambitious plans for the development of our business...

M O’Brien Plant hire has taken delivery of its first vacuum excavator from RSP suction excavators. The company said: “With vacuum excavation technology improving all the time, we are now able to minimise the risk of cable and utility strikes using this improved...