Ardmore has denied that its decision to place its main construction business into administration was an attempt to avoid its building remediation obligations. Administrators were appointed to run Ardmore Construction Ltd (ACL) on 28 August in the wake of a disappointing financial performance. ACL was also being pursued by housebuilders,…
The Construction Industry Scaffolders Record Scheme (CISRS) has issued revised contracts to training centres after months of negotiations, with its chair defending its proposed reforms. The scheme, owned by the National Access and Scaffolding Confederation (NASC), has faced sustained criticism from some training providers over the planned reforms, leading to…
Wayne Connolly’s earliest memories are of a cramped terraced house in Didsbury, Manchester. The Connolly Scaffolding boss grew up in the 1980s in a large Irish family, with no hot water, an outside toilet and a bedroom carved out of a bathroom. “I came from a very poor home,” he…
Administrators from EY have extended their oversight of ISG’s collapsed businesses to September 2026 – taking it to two years after the group filed for administration. Documents filed with Companies House this week show that the administrators for EY now have another year to work on the financial affairs of…
The Building Safety Regulator (BSR) runs the risk of “losing the complete confidence” of the building sector if it fails to significantly cut the building safety backlog this year, according to its chair. Andy Roe, appointed to the role in June, told MPs that it was “absolutely achievable” for the…
Octavius Infrastructure has reported a 16.7 per cent increase in turnover to £322.9m for the year to 31 March 2025, driven mainly by growth in railway and highway work. Pre-tax profit rose 84 per cent from £4.7m to £8.6m, giving a pre-tax margin of 2.7 per cent, up from 1.7…
The number of people employed in construction dropped to the second-lowest level in almost a quarter of a century from April to the end of June. Office for National Statistics figures released today for the second quarter of the year show that 2,081,000 people were employed in the sector. This…
By Rob Hakimian The transport secretary has given notice that she is revoking the development consent order (DCO) for the A1 Morpeth to Ellingham dualling scheme following its cancellation last year. The scheme, costed at £290M in 2014, would have seen more than 20km of the A1 in Northumberland dualled.…
The chief executive of building-control firm Assent has stepped down from his role, Construction News has learnt. Companies House records show that, in the last week of July, Iain Thomson resigned from his director position at 17 linked firms where he was listed as CEO. These included Assent Building Compliance,…
Mace has been appointed as construction manager on the £1.1bn life-science-led redevelopment of the British Library’s St Pancras site in central London. The developer for the scheme is SMBL, a special purpose vehicle wholly owned by Mitsui Fudosan UK and established in partnership with the British Library. Mace joins the…
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