ISG

Sustainable refurbs are the hospitality sector’s big trend and offer huge potential for contractors. Lucy Alderson looks at the £50m green revamp of Park Lane’s Grosvenor House to find out more.

Manchester City Council urgently needs a substantial injection of school places – and ISG has backed modern methods of construction to deliver them.

Underground parking and limited building information have kept ISG and scaffolding contractor GKR on their toes as they tackle a 19-storey refurbishment.

In Liverpool ISG is nearing completion of student housing that is sat between two historic pubs and features one of the most complex steel frames ISG’s project manager has ever seen. Lucy Alderson takes a look.

They may have been delayed by 25 minutes, but the busload of students descending on ISG’s site at Leeds Arts University offers a welcome reminder of the interest Open Doors can generate.

A dentist, a criminology graduate and an electrical contractor walk into a site office.

One of the Welsh capital’s tallest new buildings is rocketing up to provide luxury student accommodation

The UK’s higher education sector has proved remarkably resilient during an unprecedented period of uncertainty brought about by global economic and geopolitical conditions.

CN visited the Lion City and spoke to three UK construction firms to find out how they gained a foothold in one of the richest, most relentless and most saturated markets in the world. 

An unstable gable wall and a retained façade that needed steelwork threaded into the exisiting building has forced the contractor into repeated resequencing.