A blacklisted construction worker has asked a judge to force the inquiry into undercover policing to hear his oral evidence. Dave Smith, a blacklisted construction worker and secretary of the Blacklist Support Group (BSG), says he was informed on 9 September that he would not be called to appear before…
Contractor collapses, including the demise of Henry Construction Projects, have tipped a major affordable housing provider into the red. The Guinness Partnership said delays to some projects, “including where the original contractor has entered administration”, contributed to a £10.5m pre-tax loss in the year to 31 March 2025, compared with…
Construction group Clegg Holdings swelled its turnover as it inched towards completion on its “largest projects ever”. The firm – made up of construction firm Clegg Construction and food construction specialist Clegg Food Projects – posted a turnover of £162.4m in the year to 31 December 2024, up from £159.3m.…
Four in ten construction firms are still approaching innovation in “opportunistic and ad hoc” ways, according to a survey of the industry. Legacy systems and processes are also holding back 85 per cent of all construction firms in the UK, global product and service solutions provider RS said in a…
The construction sector is still waiting for housing demand to recover, despite hopes it would already be in a better place. Product manufacturers expected demand for work in the housebuilding sector to have recovered by this point in 2025, the Construction Products Association (CPA) head of construction research Rebecca Larkin…
Water ingress has caused a 34-week delay to the £36m build of a Passivhaus-standard leisure centre in Scotland. Bam Construct had expected to finish construction work at Blairgowrie Recreation Centre by 16 December last year, but the contractor only handed over to the local council on 11 August, after water…
Jersey’s market watchdog has expressed concerns that the island’s scaffolding sector may be at risk of price setting. The Jersey Competition Regulatory Authority (JCRA) said it was not alleging any illegality from scaffolding businesses on the island. However, the JCRA said it had received information regarding “potential risks on the…
Galliford Try has more than doubled its profit after a long-term “rebalance” at the firm has started to take effect. Galliford Try chief executive Bill Hocking told Construction News he was “really pleased” with his firm’s results, after pre-tax profit more than doubled from £19.2m to £44.1m in the year…
A Yorkshire scaffolding director has been ordered to fully repay £100,000 in Covid loans plus more than £15,000 interest, or face 12 months in prison. Mark Degnan had already paid back £55,608 before he appeared at Leeds Crown Court on Monday (15 September) but could face 12 months in jail…
Police have made an arrest and seized £400,000-worth of suspected stolen construction machinery from a suspected cannabis site in Wolverhampton. West Midlands Police said yesterday (15 September) that they seized the plant machinery – which included a JCB handler, two forklifts, two scissor lifts and a cherry-picker – from the…
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