Day: July 4, 2022

Midland Metropolitan University Hospital - just another 18 months to goCarillion started work on site in Smethwick in January 2016 under a private finance initiative contract and was supposed to complete in October 2018. In January 2018, Carillion went into liquidation. When Balfour Beatty took...

OCU is a Stockport-based utilities contractor that turned over £300m last year. Founded in 1994 by brothers Tim and Tom O’Connor, OCU has more than 3,000 employees. Triton Partners is based in Germany but owns companies across Europe, including traffic management firm Chevron and geotechnics...

Market Gate Bridge is designed to be more than bog-standardThe £9.7m bridge over the railway line will be a permanent replacement for the former Jumble Lane level crossing, which was closed as part of Network Rail’s level crossing risk reduction programme. The bridge is designed...

Costain will work with London Underground to make the signalling system between Heathrow Airport and Baron’s Court is compatible with both the existing trains and the new fleet of 24TS passenger trains that enter service in 2025. As part of the commission, which came through...

The ground breaking ceremonyGlencar, a specialist in big shed construction, is putting up three units for Trammell Crow Company’s first European project. US commercial property developer Trammell Crow Company (TCC), a subsidiary of CBRE, launched in Europe last year and has so far acquired three...

Julie Hirigoyen (photo from UKGBC)Jonathon Porritt, a noted environmental campaigner who was director of Friends of the Earth in the 1980s, has stepped down from Willmott Dixon’s group board after 12 years as a non-executive director. He is 71. Taking his seat as the company’s...

Rick WillmottRick Willmott has today described the Building Safety Act as “a poorly conceived travesty of justice that shines a spotlight on popularist law making”. His strong words came as his company posted its annual results for 2021 with a £10.7m cladding repair provision impacting...

The evocatively-named Dogpool Lane scheme is designed by Glenn Howells Architects Alumno’s £24m student residence project on Dogpool Lane in Birmingham is being funded by Woh Hup Holdings, one of Singapore’s largest construction businesses, which recently entered the UK market. Woh Hup launched Paideia Capital...