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Thousands of engineering construction workers at energy sites across the country have voted to strike.
The action could include up to 3,000 workers at Stanlow, Fawley, Valero, Grangemouth and Mossmorran Oil Refineries, as well as at Sellafield nuclear facility.
Further strike votes are also expected at Drax and Hartlepool nuclear power station in the coming days.The workers, who are covered by the National Agreement for the Engineering Construction Industry (NAECI), voted to turn down a pay deal

Hull based modular contractor Module-AR (M-AR) has filed a notice of intention to appoint an administrator.
The firm has a 100,000 sq ft factory and recently won places on the government’s £10bn Offsite Solutions Framework and LHC Procurement Group’s Modern Methods of Construction of New Homes (NH3) Framework.
Latest accounts for M-AR show the company had a turnover of £29.9m for the year ended March 31 2022 generating a pre-tax profit of £815,000.The accounts also

The City of London Corporation has granted planning permission for a venture between Hobart Partners and PineBridge Benson Elliot to develop a new office block in the Square Mile.
‘The Mark’ will provide 215,000 sq ft of new office space alongside 14,000 sq ft of cultural, food & beverage and retail space on Mark Lane near the Tower of London.
Construction is due to start in early 2024 and will be completed in late 2026 on the scheme designed by Danish Architect 3XN.Shravan Joshi

National Highways is set to hold a bidders day ahead of a delivery partners shake-up for its major programme of concrete road replacement and repair work across the country.
The works will be split between two frameworks, one covering major renewals works and the other minor works and repairs.
National Highways has costed the five-year programme at around £650m.
Under the present £400m five-year arrangement Morgan Sindall and John Sisk are carrying out major reconstruction works, wit

London private rental flats developer Telford Homes booked a £193m loss for last year after taking stock of potential remedial building safety works.
The losses are a significant setback for global real estate investor CBRE, which bought the London housing developer/builder four years ago for £267m.
Before the take-over Telford Homes espoused the merits of its shift to a lower risk build to rent model, delivering projects for housing associations and specialist rental property invest

GRAHAM has been appointed by the City of Lincoln Council to design and deliver a £20m infrastructure package for its Western Growth Corridor development.
Work will include the design and construction of new bridges and  access routes connecting the city to the regeneration site which will contain 3,200 new homes.
GRAHAM will start main construction work next year and a range of ground surveys are now underway.GRAHAM Contracts Director Alastair Lewis said: “We’re thrilled t

GMI Construction has secured a contract with developer Olympian Homes for a £50m student accommodation scheme on the site of a former cinema and Bingo Hall in York.
Located in the Fulford area to the south east of the city centre, the 80,000 sq ft site will feature a four-storey building comprising of 275 beds and facilities including a gym, games room, co-working and group dining areas.
In recognition of the location’s history the scheme will feature a cinema and be named Rialto Hou

Developer Belgravia has acquired two prime residential sites in Preston and is looking to start construction on the stalled schemes within months.
Belgravia is now in charge of the 469-apartment Stoneygate Central Scheme and the 21-storey Lofthaus project which is set to become the city’s tallest residential tower.
The two schemes have a combined development value of £165m and Belgravia has appointed its in-house team at UKIG Developments to act as construction manager on both scheme

Wolverhampton City Council is expected to sign the Muse-led English Cities Fund as development partner to bring forward its City Centre West quarter.
The council hopes the transformation of the west side of the city centre could ultimately see the development of around 1,000 new homes and an improved leisure, food and beverage, and retail offer, connected by new public spaces.
The council’s Cabinet is expected today to commit to working with ECF – a partnership between Muse, Legal an

Manchester City Council has awarded nine firms places on its latest Highways Construction Work framework to deliver transport infrastructure projects across the Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire roads network.
The £100m framework will run for two years with an option for a further two-year extension.
It has been split into lots covering small works up to £1m and projects above.Eric Wright Civil Engineering, Bethell and The Casey Group have bagged both large and small works

Britain’s chief infrastructure adviser Sir John Armitt has called for a Government reset on decision-making if the country is to deliver vital energy, transport and other key networks over the next 30 years.
The head of the National Infrastructure Commission said the time had come to make good decisions at pace and end a stop/start approach to infrastructure planning.
In the second five-year National Infrastructure Assessment, Sir John says the vital infrastructure the country needs can be

Britain’s chief infrastructure adviser Sir John Armitt has called for a Government reset on decision-making to deliver vital energy, transport and other key networks over the next 30 years.
The head of the National Infrastructure Commission said the time had come to make good decisions at pace and end a stop/start approach to infrastructure planning.
In the second five-year Second National Infrastructure Assessment, Sir John says the vital infrastructure the country needs can be delivered

Dorset County Hospital has got the final planning green light for a new emergency department and critical care unit.
Groundworks to prepare the Dorchester site will now get underway to prepare for main contractor Tilbury Douglas to start the £80m-plus project early next year.
The Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust project now just needs formal business case sign-off from the Government to proceed.Designed by BDP, Tilbury Douglas will build the new emergency department and critical

Watchdogs at the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) have launched an investigation into suspected anti-competitive conduct in relation to the supply of chemicals for use in the construction industry.
The CMA said it “has reason to suspect anti-competitive behaviour has taken place involving a number of suppliers of these chemicals and some industry bodies.”
The investigation relates to the supply of chemical admixtures and additives which are an essential input for products like

A plant hire firm has been fined £50,000 after a 16-year-old boy suffered serious injuries while on paid work experience.
Tom Cutler was gaining experience of vehicle repair work at Earlcoate Construction & Plant Hire Limited, Folds Farm, in the New Forest, ahead of hopefully starting a vehicle maintenance course at Sparsholt College.
On August 3, 2021, the teenager was driving a tractor down an incline when it came off the track and overturned.  He was alone and the tractor did n

Leicestershire County Council has shelved plans for a new road schemes after construction costs soared by £27m.
The council said it will now “step back” from constructing a southern leg of Melton Mowbray Distributor Road after costs rose from £43m to £70m.
The north and east section of the route are currently under construction despite costs doubling from an initial £62m to £127m.Galliford Try is main contractor on the north and east section.
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Former Amey chief executive Amanda Fisher is joining Costain as a non-executive director.
She will take up the role in December alongside former United Utilities Group CEO Steve Mogford who is also joining the board as two existing non-executive directors move on.
The pair will be members of the Company’s Audit, Nomination and Remuneration Committees.Kate Rock, Chair, said: “The Board is delighted to welcome Steve and Amanda to Costain.
“Both bring a wealth of experience in key

Bellway has uncovered structural defects in the concrete frame of a block of apartments built in London 12 years ago.
This morning the house builder revealed it had aside around £31m to remediate what was described as an isolated design issue with the unnamed Greenwich building’s reinforced concrete frame.
The firm said it intended to seek recoveries from the firms involved in the scheme.Bellway said it was carrying out a review of other buildings constructed by the same third partie

Bellway has uncovered structural defects in the concrete frame of a block of apartments built in London 12 years ago.
This morning the house builder revealed it had aside around £31m to remediate what was described as an isolated design issue with the unnamed Greenwich building’s reinforced concrete frame.
The firm said it intended to seek recoveries from the firms involved in the scheme.Bellway said it was carrying out a review of other buildings constructed by the same third partie

Rental living developer Moda is planning to build a 37-storey build-to-rent tower in the New Garden Square neighbourhood in Ladywood, Birmingham. The project which has just gone to consultation ahead of submitting for planning with provide around 450 new homes.
It will form part of the wider New Garden Square mixed-use community with up to 1,600 new homes, leisure, and public realm, all set around a striking publicly accessible linear park.
Moda is already delivering nearly 400 pro-tech ena

United Living Group has strengthened its infrastructure services arm management team as it goes for growth in the water and energy sectors.
Both new directors bring experience from a variety of senior leadership roles at firms like Galliford Try and Amey and Enterprise.
Simon Jones, United Living Infrastructure Services’ incoming operations director, has held multiple leadership roles within large, multidisciplinary infrastructure and capital delivery organisations, most recently with Seym

Aberdeen City Council has signed Morrison Construction to deliver a landmark market building redevelopment in the city.
The council plans to create a new destination venue for an international-style food, drink and  retail market.
The development will also improve pedestrian connectivity between Union Street and the bus and railway stations enliven Market Street with urban realm improvements in and around The Green.
There will also be a flexible-use outside space on the Green which could be

Travelodge is planning to build 100 new hotels across London in a multi billion construction drive across the capital.
The firm outlined its ambitions as building work began on its latest site at London Chiswick Travelodge where Barnes Construction is the main contractor.
Travelodge currrently has four sites under construction in the capital at Chiswick, the Kia Oval Cricket Ground, Bermondsey and Beckenham.The quartet will see Travelodge operate 84 hotels in London with plans to more than doubl

Farrans has been confirmed as the main contractor for the first phase of a £100m terminal revamp at Leeds Bradford Airport.
Construction work will start this autumn on the initial terminal extension which will a 9,500 sq mt three storey addition to the existing terminal alongside a significant refurbishment of the current terminal building.
Passengers will benefit from the creation of additional aircraft stands, more seating, faster security, new shops and eateries, and a larger baggage re

Network Rail is to dramatically cut its in-house track renewal team for the next five-year control period starting in April.
According to rail union RMT there are nearly 800 posts within the crucial Track Renewal Service (TRS) organisation.
This will be cut to around 260 for CP7 in response to funding cuts, which will see more essential works outsourced to contractors.Despite finding cuts, the Office for Rail and Road has made clear that Network Rail should increase planned spending on renewals

Sir Robert McAlpine is set to launch a second wave of job cuts, just five months after it completed a strategic rejig that saw 40 lay-offs.
According to insiders, the contractor is believed to be planning to announce a fresh round staff consultations for up to 190 redundancies.
If delivered this would amount to a near 9% staff cut.
The move comes just after McAlpine finally handed over its much-delayed Deutsche Bank job in the City of London last month where it is understood to have incurred los

Enabling works to prepare Rotherham Markets for future redevelopment are now underway as part of a key milestone in the town centre regeneration masterplan.Henry Boot Construction has just broken ground on the site, which will see a major refurb of the markets, with new central food hub and flexible events space.
It will also move the central library from Riverside House on Main Street to the same site, including a cafe, meeting rooms, gallery area and “maker’s space”.The proje

Civil engineering contractor Alun Griffiths plunged into the red again last year marking the fourth year of consecutive losses since being bought by CRH back in 2018.
The firm suffered a £20m pre-tax loss for 2022, improved from a deficit of £38m the year before but bringing total losses since 2019 to nearly £75m.
Based in Abergavenny, Griffiths is a leading civil engineering and rail contractor working throughout Wales, the Midlands and south west England.It operates under the

Barhale has seen an increase in turnover and pre-tax profits as its ongoing five-year business plan continues to pay off.
Latest results for the year to June 30 2023 show pre-tax profit up to £4.2m from £3.1m on turnover up to £133m from £109m at the civil engineering, infrastructure and tunnelling specialist.
Barhale’s cash position also improved despite an increase in working capital requirement to fund the growth in turnover. Net cash at the end of the year stood

Lancashire based steeelwork specialist James Killelea & Co Ltd has filed a notice of intention to appoint an administrator.
Staff at the family firm are already looking for new jobs after being given the bad news on Friday.
Killelea has been in business since 1970 providing structural engineering services including 3D building design, structural steel fabrication and erection.One of the company’s highest profile recent projects was the £20m  new Luton airport car park which