A firm acting as a principal contractor has been fined £45,000 after ignoring multiple warnings about site issues from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). An inspection by the HSE to a home-build project being undertaken by Stockport Development Ltd on Kingsley Road, Manchester, in November 2023 uncovered numerous health…
Former Bouygues UK chair and chief executive Fabienne Viala has joined the board of HS2 Ltd, a year after leaving the tier one contractor. Viala, who spent eight years Bouygues’ UK construction arm, is one of six new non-executive directors appointed to the HS2 Ltd board. Her appointment was confirmed…
The High Court has renewed a freezing order against a firm that owes a subcontractor £2.1m for work on a London development. London-based High Tech Construction (HTC) has been granted an extension of a freezing order against WLP Trading & Marketing Ltd after London’s High Court found there was a…
The Construction Leadership Council (CLC) says that industry needs to provide more evidence to stand any chance of getting the government to look again at inheritance tax (IHT) rules due to come into force in April. The sector has been unsettled by the planned changes to Business Property Relief (BPR),…
A construction firm director has been handed a suspended prison sentence after he submitted a fake £20,000 invoice for gas work, according to the Insolvency Service (IS). According to the IS, Nicholas Couch submitted a fraudulent invoice claiming his company had paid British Gas for gas installation work at an…
Northern Ireland’s health and safety watchdog has warned contractors to use “competent” subcontractors after a firm was fined over the unsafe removal of asbestos. McGrath Building & Joinery Contracts Ltd, based in Belcoo in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, was fined £500 over its work refurbishing Sacred Heart Chapel in Boho,…
Infrastructure giant M Group has posted positive half-year results as it forecasts its recent acquisitions will further strengthen its position in 2026. Since rebranding as M Group in April, the firm has diversified with a number of acquisitions in engineering and data sectors. In its half-year results, the firm, which…
The new chair of the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) Andy Roe has been nominated for a peerage. On a list unveiled on Wednesday (10 December), the former London Fire Brigade (LFB) commissioner was named along with 33 other individuals. His name was put forward by prime minister Keir Starmer. Roe…
Delays in processing applications are “unacceptable” and “urgent” improvements are needed, according to a House of Lords inquiry into the Building Safety Regulator (BSR). In its report published today (11 December), the Lords’ Industry and Regulators Committee has called on the government to fund more inspectors, improve efficiency by allocating…
One in five large pieces of debris obstructing the UK’s highways this year belonged to the construction industry, according to National Highways. Traffic officers from National Highways retrieved almost 10,000 large items connected to the construction industry between January and September. Of the more than 49,000 items collected in this…
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