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Balfour Beatty’s work on the Midland Metropolitan Hospital could be slowed by the “sustainability of the supply chain” in the wake of COVID-19, the local NHS has warned. The contractor is still on site working to complete the £600m hospital, which Carillion had originally been set to deliver. An update…

The trust behind the Royal Liverpool Hospital is to decide on whether to issue legal claims against Carillion’s insurers and subcontractor Heyrod this summer. The major city hospital was originally supposed to be operational in 2017 and cost £746m to build and run, but was delayed repeatedly. It was thought…

HS2's go-ahead will see the UK construction market “tighten” and will benefit firms not directly working on the project, analysts have claimed. Prime minister Boris Johnson told the House of Commons shortly after midday that "the cabinet has given HS2 the green signal", ending months of speculation about the future…

Private companies have borne most of the increased construction costs on the two Carillion PFI hospital contracts, the National Audit Office (NAO) has confirmed. As claimed by the Cabinet Office, and as reported by Construction News earlier this week, the taxpayer has not paid for most of the cost increases, with…

Increased construction costs of the former Carillion PFI contracts on the Royal Liverpool and Midland Metropolitan hospitals are being picked up by the private sector rather than taxpayers, the government has said. To mark the second anniversary of the collapse of the former contractor, Unite criticised what it called two…

A Greater Manchester council may still seek government support to deal with costs it has faced since the collapse of Carillion in 2018. Tameside Council used the firm as its main contractor for building works and saw several projects stall in the wake of its collapse. Two years on from…

The trust behind the Royal Liverpool Hospital is looking for a replacement cladding contractor, nearly two years after the project's main contractor Carillion went bust. The facility was said to be 90 per cent complete in January 2018, but after Carillion went under a series of major defects were found,…

Balfour Beatty’s £267m contract to deliver works on the Midland Metropolitan Hospital has been finalised, with construction due to recommence before the year end. The contractor has announced that the project is set for completion in 2022, in line with the date the Treasury had set for completion when financing was…

The financing for the construction of Midland Metropolitan Hospital has been finalised, and Balfour Beatty's contract to deliver the works is due to be completed soon, according to the hospital trust's chief executive. Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust CEO Toby Lewis said on Twitter: “Today we finalised all remaining…

Carillion’s liquidators have estimated they will recover just over £510m, with some of this going to creditors. Just over £500m has been recouped from invoices, asset sales, insurance payouts and other debtor recoveries since the £4bn firm collapsed on 15 January last year. Carillion's liabilities were estimated to be as…