Supply Chain

Industry figures have warned that too little rail work is flowing through to suppliers, with grave potential consequences for jobs, delivery and safety. Dissatisfaction with spending through Network Rail’s Control Period 7 (CP7) has overflowed in a series of posts on social media. It comes after engineering services giant Renew…

Three site managers from construction engineering firm Keltbray could face jail after being convicted of taking more than £600,000 in kickbacks. Arben Hysa, 56, bribed the Keltbray workers to secure contracts worth more than £15m through his company Tony Demolition Workers Ltd. Tony Demolitions Ltd (TDW) invoiced Keltbray for more…

A council has acknowledged that it broke procurement law in a power-station demolition tender. Brown and Mason Group Limited brought the claim over multiple breaches of public procurement law and unfair treatment from Cardiff Council over the award of a contract to demolish the former Aberthaw Power Station. The contract,…

Administrators for collapsed civils contractor O’Keefe Construction expect the firm’s creditors to come away almost empty-handed. Two-and-a-half years after O’Keefe collapsed, administrators from RSM Restructuring warned that they expected the firm’s supply chain and subcontractors to get a small fraction of the millions owed to them. Unsecured creditors, which are…

Heathrow Airport’s boss has announced a multibillion-pound plan to build new infrastructure while “laying the groundwork” for its long-proposed third runway. In a speech this morning (12 February) at British Steel’s plant in Scunthorpe, Heathrow chief executive Thomas Woldbye also signed the UK Steel Charter. This commits Heathrow to “using…

A Surrey council missed several “red flags” when it appointed a contractor with which it had already massively overspent, according to a new report. Warnings from a whistleblower and auditors “should have been visible” to Guildford Council’s senior management before it later appointed the contractor to a separate contract, law…

The firm responsible for M&E work during Grenfell Tower's refurbishment has filed for administration. The move means that Birmingham-based M&E contractor J.S.Wright & Co, which became an employee-owned trust in 2021, is set to stop trading after 135 years. The firm was appointed by Grenfell’s main contractor Rydon to carry…

An industry body for building materials is demanding “tangible policies” after new research laid bare the extent of the sector’s sales slump last year. The Mineral Products Association (MPA) called for ministers to create business confidence and unlock spending on construction as it revealed significant dips in transaction volumes last…

Demolition firm Brown and Mason Group has seen its profits quadruple, leading to a sixfold margin increase despite a second successive year of lower turnover. Group accounts for the year to 30 April 2024 were filed today (29 January) with Companies House. They reveal that the firm’s pre-tax profit more…

Demolition contractor Colemans has reported its highest revenue in four years. Newly published results for the firm, formerly known as Coleman Group and parent company of Coleman & Company, showed it turned over £20.5m in the year ending 30 April 2024. The figure is up from the £13m posted in…