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Employee-owned plant dealer Warwick Ward has fallen into administration after 55 years in business with 89 jobs axed. Interpath restructuring partners James Lumb and James Clark were appointed joint administrators to Warwick Ward (Machinery) attempts to refinance,...

Hull based Tucker Mechanical & Electrical Building Services went into administration owing its supply chain £4.7m. Documents filed at Companies House by administrator Exigen Group reveal the scale of debt at the £25m turnover specialist which had been in business...

The University of East London has handed Graham the £45m job to deliver its New Academic Building that forms the centrepiece of a wider £170m Stratford Health Campus redevelopment. The win marks UEL’s biggest capital project to date as it pushes ahead with its Vision...

NHS Lanarkshire has signed off the full business case for its planned new £700m University Hospital Monklands and passed Scotland’s first fully digital, net-zero carbon hospital to ministers for final approval. The milestone clears the way for construction to start...

Student rooms developer Unite has bagged Building Safety Regulator Gateway 2 sign-off for its landmark 41-storey Meridian Square tower project in Stratford, London. Contractor RG Group is hotly tipped for the job, which will rise next to Westfield Stratford City, but...

Lincolnshire County Council has picked a 13-strong line-up of contractors for its new four-year highways framework. Firms selected will carry out general works and major resurfacing jobs worth up to £150m. The framework will run from January 2026 to January 2030 and...

London’s Lewisham Council has given the green light to the £125m regeneration of the 1950s-built Achilles Street estate in New Cross. The £125m construction programme will see 278 homes built, delivering 60% affordable housing, new maker spaces and a major...

A Cornish roofer has been sentenced after failing to comply with requests for information from an HSE inspector and verbally abusing her. The HSE investigated after workers had been observed carrying out roof replacement work without any scaffolding being in place....