Interserve trade contractors are fearing the worst as shareholders prepare for the crunch vote this morning on the contractor’s future. If shareholders reject the rescue plan, the board has warned that lenders would instantly place the group into a pre-pack...

Subcontractors are warning that the collapse of Dawnus is like a “Welsh Carillion”. Swansea based Dawnus Construction Holdings has filed a notice to appoint an administrator and work has stopped on all of its sites across the UK. Hundreds of staff are...

A fifth year of losses at civil engineering contractor Taylor Woodrow set back recovering group profits at Vinci Construction UK last year. Group pre-tax profit halved to £10.2m from £20.5m in 2017 on stable revenue of £867m. Taylor Woodrow recorded a £14.5m loss...

Stevenage Borough Council has signed up Mace as its partner to lead the regeneration of Stevenage town centre. Work on the first project in the £350m scheme on the western side of the city centre could start as early as next year. City centre revamp of Britain’s...

Rail safety chiefs have issued new recommendations after a mobile elevating working platform ran out of control downhill on tracks for 340 metres. The incident happened in June 2018 when the road-rail machine was being placed on the tracks near Bradford Interchange...

ISG has awarded REL Building Services the M&E contract for a £34m project at Richmond upon Thames College. The contract follows extensive design work carried out by REL during the pre-construction stage of the scheme. It will see the M&E contractor install a...