Buildings

Galliford Try has been appointed to build a £63m residential scheme at RAF Digby in Lincolnshire.  The tier one contractor will build four new single living accommodation buildings for junior ranks, each standing at three storeys and containing 69 single ensuite bedrooms. The blocks will also contain a kitchenette, drying…

A housing association is planning to demolish a housing block, after ISG’s collapse into administration stymied an attempted £4m claim over alleged defects. At the time of ISG’s demise, Elim Housing Association had been pursuing ISG Pearce in the claim relating to Bouverie Court, a 21-home site in Bristol. But…

Farrans Construction is to continue its upgrade of Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA) after picking up the contract for phase two of the programme. The contractor will increase the airport’s floorspace by nearly 40 per cent, which also includes a full refurbishment of the existing airport terminal. It is already onsite…

HG Construction appears to have picked up a 28-storey build-to-rent tower job in east London that was originally due to be built by collapsed contractor Henry Construction. Google Maps photographs from September 2024 reveal what look like the HG logo on the perimeter of the Trocoll House scheme in Barking.…

Civils firm Colas Rail has scooped up a £206.9m job to develop HS2’s overhead wiring system. The contractor will now design, manufacture, install and test HS2's overhead catenary system (OCS), for 469km worth of track. That will include overhead wiring to supply electric power for 250 bridges, 58 viaducts, 47…

The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) is searching for a contractor to lead its £1.8bn estate overhaul, featuring new office space, labs and infrastructure upgrades around the country.  In a prior information notice published on Thursday (6 February), the arm’s-length government body said it aims to hire a construction…

The troubled process of creating a mass transit system to transport High Speed 2 (HS2) passengers to other rail interchanges has taken a step forward with the shortlisting of two contractors. Two European cable car specialists will now slug it out for £269m of work on the project. French firm…

Project starts on private housing projects jumped by 31 per cent from November 2024 to the end of January this year, according to Glenigan’s latest monthly Construction Index.  The construction intelligence provider also said there were 26 per cent more starts compared with the same period a year earlier. as…

Building a leisure centre to replace a facility saddled with collapse-risk concrete will be “exceptionally expensive” a councillor in the East Midlands has warned. Adrian Chapman, executive director of place and economy at Peterborough City Council, said work was underway to create a new swimming venue. The Regional Fitness and…

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has acknowledged there are “teething troubles” with its regulation of building work, but added that “a very large proportion of cases” fail to comply at first.  When the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) took over building control of higher-risk building projects in April 2024, it…