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Kier Highways and Seddon Construction have been reinstated to the Prompt Payment Code (PPC) after speeding up their supply chain payments. Both firms were suspended last November for failing to pay at least 90 per cent of invoices within 60 days. At the time, Kier Highways was paying 79 per…

Kier has won a £97.1m contract to build a new facility at a Birmingham hospital. The contractor was appointed by the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust to deliver a new four-storey building at Heartlands Hospital in the east of the city. The contract was procured through the ProCure22 (P22)…

Jones Bros has scooped a Cambridgeshire roads contract previously awarded to Kier after the cost was slashed by £10m. Cambridgeshire County Council awarded the Whittlesey King’s Dyke bypass scheme to civil engineering firm Jones Bros for £32m. When the project was originally tendered last year, Kier was the preferred contractor…

Main contractors and housebuilders including Wates, Kier, Vistry and Bellway have signed up to a COVID-19 compliance course. The course, launched by construction recruitment firm O’Neill & Brennan, will provide coronavirus training for construction workers. The course is certified on the Register of Regulated Qualifications by Ofqual, and provides contractors with…

Successful tier one contractors have been revealed in a supply chain refresh of a Scottish construction framework. Morrison, Morgan Sindall and Kier all retained places on Hub South West’s tier one framework with Bam Construct and Robertson Construction also added to the list. According to Robertson, the framework currently has…

Schemes include blighted former Carillion builds, a proton-beam therapy unit and a hospital set for an early opening in response to the COVID-19 outbreak

Kier, Bam and Morgan Sindall are among the contractors to have closed all Scottish construction sites considered ‘non-essential’, according to new guidance issued on Monday. The guidance from the Scottish Government listed works at children’s hospitals in Glasgow and Edinburgh as well as road, rail and utility repairs, as examples of works…

Balfour Beatty, Graham, Kier and Robertson are building a temporary NHS hospital in Glasgow. Around 400 workers from the four firms are working to finish the hospital in the Scottish Events Campus (SEC) within two weeks, having begun on Tuesday. The temporary facility, named the NHS Louise Jordan, will house…

Kier has announced it will close its office in Reading following a workload review. A spokeswoman for the contractor said that, where possible, staff will be redeployed to other departments within the organisation. The closure is not linked to the coronavirus outbreak. A Kier spokeswoman said: “Following an extensive review of…

Kier has paused the sale of its housebuilding business, Kier Living, and is cutting the salaries of 6,500 employees due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. A review of the options for its property development business has also been put on hold, the company announced in a market update…