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Graham has been appointed by the Department for Education to deliver a £37m redevelopment of Castle Rock School in Coalville, Leicestershire. The scheme will replace five outdated school buildings with a two-storey teaching block, linked to the existing main school building. Located on the western portion of the 11.7ha site,…

Southern Housing has selected 10 contractors to deliver £2.38bn worth of retrofit and fire safety improvement works across London and the South East over the next 20 years. The long-term programme has been split into 10 geographical lots covering both internal and external refurbishment works until 2046. Six of the…

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…

Hornchurch Academy Trust has launched an eight-year open framework worth up to £830m for construction and infrastructure works across the UK education sector. Procured by Place Group Limited, the framework is split into half a dozen lots covering renewables, construction and infrastructure, building works and repairs, modular buildings, sports facilities,…

Investors and former directors of failed contractor Merit Group Services have launched a new modular construction business. Merit Industrialised Construction has been formed following an asset purchase completed through the administration process, which began when the Northumberland-based Merit Group and Merit Holdings collapsed in November 2025. The new business is…

David Brown has been confirmed as the new chair and interim president of both the National Access & Scaffolding Confederation (NASC) and the Construction Industry Scaffolders Record Scheme (CISRS), following the death of Wayne Connolly. Brown, the immediate past chair of both organisations, has resumed the leadership roles in line…

Seven new hospitals being built to replace reinforced aerated autoclaved concrete- (RAAC-) affected buildings will be delayed by three years and miss their 2030 deadline. An independent report commissioned by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) in 2022 recommended that hospitals in the government's New Hospital Programme with…

Groundworks and civils contractor Caldwell Construction Ltd has filed a notice of intention to appoint administrators as it scrambles to find a buyer and fend off creditors. The notice was filed yesterday (14 January). Founded in 2007, the firm specialises in delivering groundworks for housebuilders and developers in the Midlands,…