Heathrow Airport has announced plans to invest £1.3bn in 2026 to upgrade Terminal 4 and construct a new baggage-handling system (BHS) for Terminal 2, following what it described as record growth in 2025. The airport said the planned works will support its wider strategy to become an “extraordinary airport, fit…
The UK’s public roads and railways market is stuck in a “negative cycle” of short-termism, risk-aversion and delivery failure that is undermining economic growth, according to an interim report from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). Published on Wednesday (17 December), the watchdog’s market study describes a sector struggling to…
Associated British Ports (ABP) is planning to line up an early contractor involvement and works partner for its planned £500m Solent Gateway 2 project in Marchwood, near Southampton. The UK’s largest ports group plans to use a competitive flexible procedure to appoint a single contractor to assist with design development,…
Housebuilder Taylor Wimpey is suing Vinci Construction for more than £30m over alleged cladding and steelwork defects carried out by the contractor’s subsidiary Taylor Woodrow at a development in Cardiff. The case concerns the development of seven residential towers at Victoria Wharf in Cardiff Bay. Taylor Wimpey appointed Taylor Woodrow…
The government is considering introducing mandatory registration and licensing for additional roles across the construction sector as part of its overhaul of professional oversight in the built environment. Wednesday’s (17 December) prospectus for the new single construction regulator announced that ministers are proposing to go further than the recommendations of…
Administrators for Henry Group Holdings (HGH) have received claims totalling £141.15m from unsecured creditors. London-headquartered HGH, which was incorporated in 2016 and solely owned by Mark Henry, went into liquidation on 18 August 2023. It is the parent company of Henry Construction Projects – which is also in administration. In a winding-up…
A civil claim brought by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) against a group of companies involved in the refurbishment of the Grenfell Tower will not be heard until October 2028, the High Court has said. Mrs Justice Jefford and Senior Master Cook ruled last week (9 December)…
The Scottish Government has extended its flagship civil engineering framework by up to four years, despite no work being awarded through it since its launch. The Civil Engineering Framework (Scotland), which was originally valued at £600m, has been extended for two years, with the option to renew for another 24…
Police have arrested 30 people in a raid on a construction site to tackle illegal workers. Officers from Wiltshire Police said they joined Home Office enforcement officials in the raid on Tuesday (16 December) at the Panattoni Park development site in east Swindon. The raid saw 25 people detained pending…
Graham has secured a £59m contract to deliver new student housing at Loughborough University’s East Midlands campus. The scheme, approved by Charnwood Borough Council, will create 552 en-suite, self-catered bedrooms across five accommodation blocks, rising up to six storeys. The development will be built in the Central Park area of…
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