Laing O’Rourke

Trial dates have been set in the cases of contractors accused of health and safety offences in relation to a death and a serious injury at Hinkley Point C. The two separate cases were brought following investigations by the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR). One of the cases relates to…

Allowing individual companies that are part of joint ventures (JVs) to pursue adjudications on their own would cause “chaos”, the High Court has ruled. Darchem Engineering has lost its case at the Technology and Construction Court to enforce adjudication rulings against Bylor – the Laing O’Rourke and Bouygues Travaux Publics…

The High Court has awarded £35m in damages to the freeholder of a high-end London development after a Laing O’Rourke subsidiary withdrew from the case, leaving the trial to proceed without a defence. In a judgment handed down remotely on 2 February 2026, Mrs Justice Jefford ruled that Laing O’Rourke…

A specialist subcontractor on Hinkley Point C (HPC) is taking the main contractor joint venture (JV) to the High Court to enforce a £24m adjudication. Darchem Engineering Ltd took Bylor – the Laing O’Rourke and Bouygues Travaux Publics JV constructing the nuclear site – to three adjudications in 2025 over…

The owners of the world’s second-largest movie set, Shepperton Studios Limited (SSL), and contractor Laing O’Rourke have filed lawsuits against each other over a disputed invoice. SSL is the owner of Surrey-based, 139,354 square metre Shepperton Studios, which boasts Amazon MGM Studios and Netflix as major tenants. On 12 December,…

Bovis has reached the summit in the last monthly league table of 2025, thanks to a £176.6m job to revamp a Gloucestershire barracks. It needed just one job at the Duke of Gloucester Barracks to take the gold medal in December, according to construction data provider Glenigan. The design-and-build contract…

Two tier one contractors have entered not guilty pleas to health and safety offences in two separate cases relating to a death and a serious injury at Hinkley Point C. Both cases have been brought following investigations by the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR). The first case relates to the…

Strabag soared to the top spot in the August league tables thanks to a mammoth aqueduct job in the North West. The contractor scooped the £2.9bn job from United Utilities last month, which will see it upgrade six tunnel sections of the Haweswater Aqueduct. The aqueduct is a crucial artery…

Network Rail has named four companies as preferred delivery partners on the £1.75bn Midlands Rail Hub programme. The alliance includes VolkerRail, Laing O’Rourke, AtkinsRéalis and Siemens Mobility. They will support the design and development of the major transport scheme alongside Network Rail, which is leading the project in collaboration with…

Two companies are to be prosecuted after a worker was injured following an incident involving a rebar mesh wall at the Hinkley Point C construction site. The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR), the UK’s independent nuclear regulator, has given notice to Bouygues Travaux Publics SAS and Laing O’Rourke Delivery Limited…