Day: April 6, 2022

If Victorian Gothic Revival is your thing, you could do a lot worse than feast your eyes on Manchester’s huge and ornate Town Hall. Replacing an existing Regency town hall that the rapidly-developing industrial city had quickly outgrown, the new building was designed by Alfred...

Breaking throughTBM Annie broke into the shaft at Tideway’s Chambers Wharf site on Tuesday 5th April. This milestone now means that the only tunnelling work remaining on the £4.2bn Thames Tideway project is the final section of TBM Selina’s drive toward Abbey Mills Pumping Station....

The latest monthly survey of purchasing managers suggests a continued rise in UK construction but sentiment declining amid inflation and concerns about the economic impact of the war in Ukraine. The degree of confidence about the growth outlook was the weakest since October 2020. The...

Hub South West Scotland is a construction and infrastructure-focused partnership that works with local authorities and private sector enterprises in Lanarkshire, Ayrshire and Dumfries and Galloway, The new Dumfries High School is one of 25 projects selected as part of Phase 2 of the Scottish...

MKM Building Supplies, the UK builders merchant chain owned by Bain Capital, reports 40% revenue growth last year thanks to acquisitions and new store openings.Read Full Article: The Construction Index Source link

For Redrow, the costs of remediation have soared to £200m as a result of the pledge. Yesterday we reported that Crest Nicholson, Persimmon, Taylor Wimpey and Berkeley had signed the pledge. [See previous report here.] Today we can add Redrow and MJ Gleeson to the...

Gary SkinnerThe statement from Inland Homes was one sentence long with no suggestion of thanks for his service. It read: “Inland Homes announces that group managing director Gary Skinner's employment with the company terminated with immediate effect on 5 April 2022. Accordingly, he has stepped...

Phil MarshallPhil Marshall joins Avant Homes with 35 years’ experience in the house-building sector to lead its construction team in the East Midlands. Avant Homes East Midlands currently has nine developments under construction, from Ashbourne to Warwick.  Phil Marshall is now responsible for the day-to-day...

A logjam in home improvement work  has been exposed by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism – but the cause is not the building trade but the management of the Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) system. DFG is the grant scheme to help fund adaptations to disabled...

Artist impression of the Holmhurst St Mary schemeThakeham has been appointed by housing provider Optivo to build 208 affordable homes on the site of an old convent school in Holmhurst St Mary, near Hastings. The plans include the restoration of a 300-year-old listed statue of...

The rebrand follows Galliford Try’s acquisition of NMCN’s water and asset security businesses last October. When Galliford Try paid NMCN’s administrators £1m for NMCN Water, among the 900 employees it took on were 50 specialist security designers, installers and commissioning specialists. They have now been...