Tilbury Douglas

The Department of Education (DfE) has issued half a dozen main works contracts, with a combined value of more than £160m, under its £7bn 2021 Construction Framework. Tilbury Douglas has been appointed to deliver three of the six projects, including a £14.9m deal to build Buckton Fields Primary School in…

Bowmer & Kirkland was the Department for Education’s (DfE) highest paid construction company for the fourth year in a row, Construction News can reveal. Figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show that the Derbyshire-headquartered firm was paid £320.8m in the 2024/25 financial year - £57m ahead of the…

Tilbury Douglas is no longer owned by former Interserve shareholders, it has emerged. The contractor separated from the former Interserve Group in 2022 after the former giant plc went into a pre-pack administration three years earlier, but continued to be owned by shareholders of the parent. Companies House records show…

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…

Tilbury Douglas hopes to grow its order book to £2bn, its new chief executive has said after reporting a rise in turnover and profit last year. In the company’s newly released annual report for the year ending 31 December 2024, the group posted a £541.6m turnover, up from £507.2m the…

Tilbury Douglas is to deliver a £100m emergency department and critical care unit in Dorset.  The contractor announced yesterday (12 February) that it will begin constructing the new facility at Dorset County Hospital in Dorchester this spring, once enabling works have finished. It expects to complete main construction in 2027.…

Tilbury Douglas has been awarded the first contract for the Barbican Centre’s £185m renewal programme to upgrade the building and its infrastructure. The Barbican Centre’s renewal programme is being brought forward to update the iconic central London theatre, music venue and art space so it meets the needs of 21st…

Seven contractors, including Kier, Galliford Try and Tilbury Douglas, have been appointed to a five-year framework covering utilities in Yorkshire. Framework client Yorkshire Water said the work represents part of its “largest ever” environmental investment, as it looks to invest £8.3bn across the network in the next five years. Kier,…

Tilbury Douglas chief executive Paul Gandy – a key figure in the firm’s turnaround – will step down in November. Gandy oversaw Tilbury Douglas’ transition from subsidiary of the ailing Interserve to become a standalone tier one contractor. He joined the firm as construction managing director in 2019, just after…

Tilbury Douglas has failed in a legal claim that Arup should pay it £6m because of defective designs at a mixed-use development in Edinburgh. The contractor had alleged that Arup produced designs that were “incapable of implementation” on the revamp of the former Haymarket railway yard in central Edinburgh. But…