Day: December 6, 2022

Farrans is a subsidiary of Northern Ireland’s Northstone Group, which is part of the building materials group CRH, based in the Republic of Ireland. According to The Irish News, CRH has put Farrans up for sale due to lack of orders. Farrans is currently building...

Civil engineering activity has been in decline for five months in a row nowThe November purchasing managers’ index, compiled by S&P Global, scored 50.4, putting it just marginally above the 50.0 no-growth mark. September and October had seen a modest return to growth after the...

An Ilke house comes off the production lineIlke Homes said that the new funding – the largest-ever raised by a UK modular housebuilder – would enable it to scale-up its operations, open a new factory and increase output capacity to 4,000 homes a year. The...

Michael GoveMichael Gove has written to the Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) urging it to conduct a study into the house-building sector. His letter dated 9th November was his second such letter of this type, having previously made the same request back in May, the...

Donagh O'SullivanAt Inland Homes he takes over from Stephen Wicks, who retired at the end of September at the age of 71. Donagh O'Sullivan studied civil engineering at the University of Cork and on graduating went to work for Balfour Beatty in London. He joined...

A report from the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo) says that construction industry vacancies in the UK shrank by 6% in the first 10 months of 2022. The number of applicants per vacancy was down by 44% over the same period. The data comes...

Peter ComminsPeter Commins, aged 65, has previously had senior roles at both Balfour Beatty and Kier and he is a past chairman of the now-defunct Construction Confederation. He was managing director of Kier Regional Building North West from 2016 until March 2022. Before that, he...

Artist's impression of the developmentThe redevelopment of a site next to St Ann’s Hospital in South Tottenham will provide up to 995 new homes, 60% of which will be designated as affordable. Catalyst and Hill’s plans retain seven historical hospital buildings, including a water tower,...

The £28m redevelopment has been designed by Buckley Gray YeomanThe £28m redevelopment, designed by architect Buckley Gray Yeoman, will double the total floor space from less than 50,000 sq ft to 101,000 sq ft, with floor plates of up to 18,000 sq ft. It includes...