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Kier was the biggest contractor for the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) for the second year in a row, Construction News can reveal. The company was paid £269.9m in the financial year 2024/25, down slightly from the £294m it earned in 2023/24 (see box below for full list). Kier’s work for…

Lawyers acting for six ISG subcontractors have threatened the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) with legal action over unpaid money they say is owed on former ISG prison projects. Hill Dickinson is representing a group of subcontractors who say they were left out of pocket on three project bank accounts (PBAs)…

A subcontractor has said its profit and turnover took a hit after ISG went under last year, forcing it into a “substantial gross write-off”. Pre-tax profit at Hensall Mechanical Services – based in the Yorkshire village of Eggborough – fell from £2.6m to £952,000 in the year to 31 December…

Three major planks of the prison-building programme, designed to boost capacity by 20,000 places, are no longer considered achievable, according to the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (NISTA). NISTA gave the verdicts in its first annual report since its creation in April, when it replaced the Infrastructure and Projects…

The fallout from ISG’s collapse last year led to a six-month delay to a project in Manchester and cost the council £3m, Construction News can reveal. Manchester City Council was forced to redo some of ISG’s work on the affected project – believed to be the £16m Orchard House Secondary…

ISG’s collapse has led to costs on a Chesterfield sports centre increasing by £1.5m, Construction News can reveal. The firm’s administration last September – the biggest in the construction industry since Carillion went under in 2018 – also caused a six-month delay to the £24.1m project to replace Sharley Park…

Tilbury Douglas has replaced ISG on a project to rebuild a primary school in York. The contractor was named on the project nine months after progress fell silent, when ISG went into administration. Tilbury Douglas will now construct Tang Hall Primary School to the original specifications, after it received government…

Morgan Sindall has taken over the rebuilding of a primary school in York where work had stalled after the collapse of former contractor ISG. The firm was appointed by the Department for Education to complete £10m of construction work at Hempland Primary School in Heworth to the original specifications. The…

A £38m-turnover joinery and fit-out firm says it has been forced to reevaluate its business strategy following ISG’s collapse last September. In its annual results for the year to 31 December 2024, Taylor Made Joinery Interiors said the tier one contractor’s downfall had sounded an alarm bell, warning that the…

Plans to build three new prisons as part of a £4.7bn spend will now go ahead after the Treasury signed off on funding, a senior minister has said. On Wednesday, justice secretary Shabana Mahmood said the Treasury would fund “in full” plans to build the prisons, in a bid to…