Buildings

Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) has chosen Byrne Group subsidiary FB Ellmer to rebuild a stand at the iconic Lord’s cricket ground. The project, part of a wider £200m wider redevelopment of the ground, will see the Allen Stand rebuilt. MCC originally appointed Graham last year to carry out the work…

The delivery of high-value construction programmes is accelerating globally, but new analysis has revealed how far behind the UK trails other countries. According to Mace’s 2025 report The Future of Major Programme Delivery, there has been a 280 per cent increase in the number of live megaprojects – those valued…

Brick deliveries were up by nearly a quarter in May 2025 compared with 12 months earlier, but remain far below levels seen in the years before 2023. Latest building material figures from the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) suggest the housebuilding sector is picking up as the volume of…

A pair of biosecurity contracts propelled Laing O’Rourke to the top of the latest monthly contractor league table. The tier one contractor was chosen by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) as main works contractor for two science buildings on the National Biosecurity Campus in Weybridge, Surrey.…

The fallout from ISG’s collapse last year led to a six-month delay to a project in Manchester and cost the council £3m, Construction News can reveal. Manchester City Council was forced to redo some of ISG’s work on the affected project – believed to be the £16m Orchard House Secondary…

Chelmsford City Council has suspended building inspections and put a freeze on new building control applications because of a lack of qualified staff. In an announcement on its website, the Essex council said it had paused all building inspections “over the coming weeks”. In a statement, the council told Construction…

Morgan Sindall has replaced ISG on a job to build a new leisure centre in Bishop Auckland. It is the second time this month the firm has picked up an ex-ISG contract. The leisure centre build had faced delays after ISG went into administration last September leaving 2,200 workers redundant. Plans…

ISG’s collapse has led to costs on a Chesterfield sports centre increasing by £1.5m, Construction News can reveal. The firm’s administration last September – the biggest in the construction industry since Carillion went under in 2018 – also caused a six-month delay to the £24.1m project to replace Sharley Park…

Peers have urged parliamentary authorities to speed up the process of starting the refurbishment of the Palace of Westminster amid safety concerns and fears of a “Notre Dame-type inferno”. In a debate on the restoration, which heard delays in commencing work were costing £700m a year, peers criticised the authorities…

A long-delayed highway improvement scheme in East Sussex dubbed in Parliament a “road to nowhere” is now due to be completed later this summer. The Queensway Gateway Road in St Leonards was initially slated for completion in 2016 but has been dogged by delays, most recently because of the need…