The Building Safety Regulator has yet to sanction any building control bodies after assuming oversight of the sector in October 2024, Construction News can reveal. Information obtained under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act shows that 11 complaints have been registered with the BSR against private registered building control authority…
Administrators for a defunct private finance initiative (PFI) vehicle said they could move forward with an £18.3m legal claim against Kier over a police station completed 18 years ago. Administrators for Justice Support Services (North Kent) Ltd said in a progress report that they had settled a legal claim against…
HS2 bosses raised worries over contractors’ health and safety performance just months before a serious near-miss incident paused work on London tunnels, it has emerged. Newly released minutes from a series of HS2 board meetings from 2025 show that five RIDDOR incidents took place across the line in February that…
Euston Station delivery teams have been given the go-ahead to transport construction spoil from the site by rail instead of road in future, it has been confirmed. HS2 sparked anger from MPs and the public in 2022 when it abandoned a plan to remove spoil from the site by rail,…
A bankrupt builder has been jailed for a year after failing to declare his status when obtaining money from five people and leaving them in “unliveable” homes. Nigel Dinneen, 72, of Mickleover, Derby, took advanced payments for work without telling customers that he had been declared bankrupt in July 2019,…
A London council is pursuing McLaren Construction over what it says is a failure to meet compliance issues at a major new-build development. The contractor delivered the £85m mixed-use 12 Thames Road development in Barking for the local authority’s Be First regeneration arm. The scheme features 156 homes across four…
The Supreme Court has ruled that a contractor did not have the right under JCT design-and-build terms to terminate a contract after it was paid late twice. The ruling ends a long-running dispute between Providence Building Services Ltd and client Hexagon Housing Association Ltd, which it was carrying out £7.2m…
Tender prices grew by 2.5 per cent in 2025, according to the latest data from the Building Cost Information Service (BCIS). The company said its expert panel of cost consultants estimated that tenders rose by 0.7 per cent between the third and fourth quarters of the year. It now expects…
Lagan boosted its turnover as growth in its international airports-focused businesses outstripped its activity elsewhere. The Lagan Specialist Infrastructure Group, the parent of civils firms Lagan Aviation & Infrastructure Group and Charles Brand Group, saw its revenue reach £168.8m in the year to 31 March 2025, recently released accounts show.…
The liquidator for former vehicle-battery company Britishvolt, which collapsed owing money to a major engineering firm, have decided not to pursue a director over a personal cash guarantee he made to the firm. In its latest report, RSM said it had decided not to chase an unnamed director of Recharge…
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