New measures unveiled in the government's Warm Homes Plan (WHP) will see a review of a key competency standard for retrofit professionals and a boost in funding for training heat pump installers. The WHP, published on Wednesday, set out plans for a review to the Publicly Available Specification (PAS) standard…
A steel fabrication specialist set up last year before buying a £12m-turnover namesake contractor out of administration has itself appointed administrators. Thomas Storey Fabrication Limited on Monday (19 January) appointed administrators from KBL Advisory, according to a notice on The Gazette. Companies House filings show that the firm was created…
A £45m Kier job to combine four Scottish schools into a community campus has experienced another delay. The new Tain Community Campus, a project to relocate four schools onto one site, has been pushed back a further three months – and will now be completed 20 months later than first…
Nearly 100 tower crane operators are to walk out over “unacceptable” pay-rise offers over the past two years. Tower crane operators employed in the UK by Wolffkran, a Swiss firm specialising in the design, manufacture and use of tower cranes, voted to hold fortnightly 24-hour strikes beginning later this month.…
Stewart Milne’s administration process could take up to three years following an extension. The housebuilder was set to exit administration this month, but administrators at Teneo in December extended the process by a further year, to 7 January 2027. The company went under in January 2024 after several failed attempts…
John F Hunt has fallen to a £3.5m pre-tax loss after the firm was hit hard by a client’s collapse. In its latest accounts for the year to 31 March 2025, the UK’s second-biggest demolition contractor said it had lost £5.1m in the wake of the fall into administration of…
The financial black hole left by ISG’s demise has deepened to more than £1bn, Construction News can reveal. Liquidators at Azets, who were appointed to manage 11 of ISG’s collapsed firms, have now received claims from unsecured creditors totalling £398.7m, their latest progress reports reveal. This is a rise from…
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has reduced the fines for two former Carillion finance directors over their part in misleading statements being issued by the firm. Richard Adam and Zafar Khan were both aware of serious financial troubles in Carillion’s UK construction business but failed to reflect this in company…
A year-long slump in construction activity has begun to slow as business confidence began to show small signs of recovery, latest figures show. The S&P Global purchasers’ managers index (PMI) registered 40.1 in for December, up from 39.4 in November, but still short of the 44.1 figure from October. A…
Investigators working for the government’s housing ministry used covert methods – including a false cover story – without legal authority in order to gather intelligence on cladding compliance. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) admitted in October 2023 to indirectly and unknowingly employing undercover agents to aid…
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