Sir Robert McAlpine

A £450.8m wellbeing resort job in Manchester has propelled Sir Robert McAlpine to the top of the monthly contractor league table for the first time since October 2018. Client Therme Group confirmed in September that McAlpine’s appointment followed a preconstruction services agreement. Located at the former EventCity site in TraffordCity,…

Sir Robert McAlpine Special Projects has been appointed to lead the £6m restoration of Colchester’s Grade II*-listed Balkerne Water Tower, known locally as Jumbo. The heritage division of the tier one contractor will oversee the transformation of the disused 1882 tower into a publicly accessible destination venue, with new visitor…

An NHS trust is taking legal advice in a dispute with contractors over leak-related defects on two building projects worth a combined £103m. South London and Maudsley Foundation Trust said the damage could cause a hold-up of up to nine months. The cost of the delays presently stands at over…

Migrant workers are at an increased risk of exploitation on construction sites, a new report has warned. The probe by Achilles, which deals in supply chain risk, found migrant workers are vulnerable to unexplained deductions from wages, restricted access to mobile phones and “informal or unclear” employment arrangements. Based on…

Sir Robert McAlpine (SRM) has rebounded into the black in its latest accounts, with the tier one contractor recovering from last year's severe loss. The firm generated a pre-tax profit of £10.4m in the year to 31 October 2024 after suffering a £104.6m pre-tax loss the year before. At the…

The client on a major Sir Robert McAlpine gigafactory job is looking for a contractor to build a ring road around the facility. Agratas – part of Indian multinational Tata – released a £60m prior information notice (PIN) yesterday for a ring road around its £4bn battery cell manufacturing facility…

Politicians have slammed Sir Robert McAlpine after it had to close a major road to fix hotel cladding, less than two weeks after it reopened following previous remediation. Loose cladding on the Hilton Hotel and Conference Centre in Woking, Surrey, has caused repeated closures of the town centre’s A320 Victoria…

Sir Robert McAlpine has been appointed main contractor on Tata Steel UK’s £1.25bn low carbon ‘green’ steelmaking project at the Port Talbot steelworks. The contractor will be responsible for managing main, civil, structural and building works for the construction of a new electric arc furnace-based steel production facility under a…

McLaren Construction has announced a major expansion plan and a key appointment to deliver it. The CN top 100 firm is launching a new division, Construction Management and Specialist Projects, which will focus on large-scale real estate and public sector projects. McLaren has appointed Vince Lydon from Sir Robert McAlpine…

Sir Robert McAlpine plunged to a nine-figure loss after it struggled to adapt to the economic climate and was forced to devalue a number of substantial jobs, its accounts show. The contractor, also known as SRM, tabled a £104.6m pre-tax loss for the year to 31 October 2023, which it…