OCU Modus has been ordered to pay more than £2.6m after a High Court judge found a firm it bought two years ago was liable for defects in underground cables installed to connect a solar farm project. A judge at the Technology and Construction Court last week found in favour…
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The cost of a long-delayed bypass in Somerset is expected to top £105m – £40m above the original estimate – after fresh risks to the scheme were identified. North Somerset Council is set to approve an extra £14.5m for the Banwell bypass at a meeting next week, which is also…
Balfour Beatty will not seek a main contractor role in the rejigged £37bn New Hospital Programme (NHP), its outgoing chief executive Leo Quinn has said. Last month, NHS England said it was seeking 10 contractors to join the Hospital 2.0 Alliance (H2A) framework to deliver 34 new or redeveloped hospitals…
The £9bn Lower Thames Crossing road project has been greenlit after two and a half years in limbo. Transport secretary Heidi Alexander today (25 March) granted development consent to the UK’s largest ever road tunnel, which will connect Kent and Essex. The decision was originally due last June but had…
Government departments were lining up contractors to replace ISG months before it collapsed last September, a report has revealed. The National Audit Office (NAO) said ministers learned from the collapse of Carillion in 2018, when public money had to be pumped into finishing hospital projects started by the failed giant.…
Milestone Infrastructure has secured an £840m roads maintenance deal in Oxfordshire. The Hertfordshire-headquartered firm will look after more than 4,800km of highways following a contract award announced on Friday (21 March). The deal from Oxfordshire County Council will start on 1 April and run to 2033, with a possible extension…
The future of a flood defence scheme in Worcestershire hangs in the balance after troubled contractor Alun Griffiths pulled out of the project. The Welsh civils firm, part of the Tarmac group, had been lined up to build the scheme at Severn Stoke, which has already been hit by significant…
Mace has officially won a £140m job to deliver a 180-metre extension to a pier at London Gatwick, it has been announced. The Pier 6 deal will see the contractor deliver eight aircraft gates next to the airport’s runways. A statement from the airport said the changes would help give…
Construction output fell by 0.2 per cent in January as poor weather slowed work, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). It was the second successive month in which output dropped by 0.2 per cent. January’s decline was due to a fall in new work, with only repair and…
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