Day: March 22, 2023

Bishop & Taylor discuss the recent Budget statement, including  tax allowances (and perhaps how to exploit them), new additions to the Shortage Occupations List and the postponement of major transport projects. They also discuss developers that have not (or not yet, at time of recording)...

The building safety programme was triggered by the Grenfell Tower fire, which killed 73 people in 2017 due to defective building worksA total of 43 developers have now signed the self-remediation terms and deed of bilateral contract, a 112-page documents obliging signatories to fix fire...

Towards the end of last month West Lothian council approved a £10m programme to fix structural issues at three primary schools. The schools – Knightsridge Primary in Livingston, Our Lady’s in Stoneyburn and Windyknowe Primary in Bathgate – require the replacement of roofs made of...

Multiplex Europe has reported revenue of £574m for 2022, which was 28% down on 2021’s £805m. However, this is expected to be temporary. The drop in revenue was attributed to the completion of several large projects while newer jobs only start generating ‘meaningful’ turnover in...

The Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund and Home Upgrade Grant are expected to result in improvements to more than 115,000 homes. Local authorities, providers of social housing and charities have been awarded £630m from phase two of the latest stage of the Home Upgrade Grant; £778m...

Jeff Ubben is the founder of Inclusive Capital Partners, a San Francisco hedge fund that made a hostile takeover bid for Countryside Partnerships last year. That resulted in Countryside running into the arms of Vistry. Vistry took over Countryside for £1.25bn last November. Ubben, however,...

Left to right are CAS operations director Jonathan Allan, performance director Kirsty Allan, specialist access director David Ritchie and technical director Mark SkinnerCity Access Scaffolding (CAS) will now be pitching for repair and inspection work at height through its new specialist access division, headed by...

A CGI view of the Chilterns Tunnel north portal looking southWith the tunnel half-built already, Align has now completed its detailed design work. The north portal, near South Heath in Buckinghamshire, will be one of the seven ‘key design elements’ of the tunnel visible from...