Bovis Construction (Europe) Limited has opened a Birmingham office as it expands its UK public sector operations. The contractor secured space at Northspring on Temple Street, in Birmingham city centre, three minutes’ walk from Birmingham New Street station. It said that its new base would complements its existing offices in…
Modular healthcare specialist MTX Contracts has been appointed to design and build a major diagnostics and treatment centre in south-east Wales. The contractor is working on the redevelopment of the former British Airways Avionics Engineering site in Llantrisant, Rhondda Cynon Taf, to create the Llantrisant Health Park. The scheme -…
Graham has signed a £286m contract to redevelop the Cambridge Halls student accommodation at Manchester Metropolitan University. The scheme, which secured planning permission in August 2025, will deliver 2,302 student bedrooms on the university’s All Saints Campus in Hulme. It is being brought forward through a joint venture between Manchester…
Sir Robert McAlpine has announced the “well-earned early retirement” of its chief people officer Karen Brookes, who stepped down last month after almost nine years at the firm. Her successor is Rachael Smith, who has been appointed as people and shared services director. Brookes “helped guide the business through some…
Kier Construction has been named as winner of a £35m contract to deliver the Southern Gateway scheme at Bristol Temple Meads station. Bristol Temple Quarter LLP has chosen Kier under an open procedure to act as main contractor on the project, which forms part of the wider Bristol Temple Quarter…
Network Rail has launched early market engagement for a £450m single-supplier electrification framework covering projects across Scotland. The framework will support the development, delivery, entry into service and handback of overhead line and traction power systems under Scotland’s railway decarbonisation programme. Network Rail Infrastructure Limited said it intends to appoint…
Engineers from the Balfour Beatty Vinci (BBV) joint venture have completed the installation of four parallel viaduct decks at HS2’s Delta junction outside Birmingham. The structures form part of the high-speed rail route as it approaches Birmingham from the south, carrying the high-speed line over floodplains, local roads and existing…
Severfield has appointed former ISG executive Andrew Page as its new chief financial officer, replacing interim finance chief Jan Bramall. The structural steel specialist said Page would join the board as chief financial officer and executive director from 16 February 2026, following what it described as a comprehensive search process…
Network Rail has secured planning approval for the redevelopment of London's Liverpool Street Station after officers accepted heritage harm on the basis that the scale of commercial development was required to deliver the station improvements. The City of London Corporation’s Planning Applications Sub-Committee approved the scheme this afternoon (10 February),…
Construction firms working on school building projects will be required to provide apprenticeship and T level placements under the government’s forthcoming education estates strategy. The policy will create 13,000 apprenticeship and T level placement opportunities linked to the delivery of new and rebuilt schools across England, the government said. The…
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