A new voluntary code of conduct for directors has been unveiled, partially in response to the collapse of Carillion, Construction News can reveal. The code of conduct, developed by the Institute of Directors (IoD), aims to “build trust in business” after high-profile corporate failings have shaken public confidence in business…
John Sisk scooped top spot in the May league table after winning a bumper job at Manchester City’s Etihad Stadium. The £300m job, which will see Sisk build a new North Stand at the 53,000-seat stadium, sees Sisk take its first gold spot of 2024, according to construction data firm…
Construction bodies have slammed Nigel Farage for “laughable” claims about migration and the sector. Industry leaders dismissed Farage’s claim that the construction sector does not need any workers from abroad and the “myth” that builders are “unskilled”. They described remarks by the Reform UK leader as “incorrect”, arguing that he…
JRL has submitted plans for a new residential block in Manchester city centre. The firm’s contracting arm, Midgard, will build the housing block if it receives planning approval. The scheme would provide 359 homes in total across a part-10-storey, part-28-storey building in Sparkle Street, near Manchester Piccadilly Station. JRL has…
Contractors have been alerted to a two-year-long job to revamp a port construction site in Ayrshire, Scotland. The £150m job at Hunterston Construction Yard, which is part of the Clydeport facility serving Glasgow, will cover design and construction work. First, the contractor will fill in and drain the dry dock…
Major contractors including Balfour Beatty and Morgan Sindall are demanding a new financing model from the next government to drive private investment in infrastructure. The contractors, also joined by the likes of Mace, Costain and Laing O’Rourke, warned that the next government can only meet its national targets around net…
Delays to a leisure centre development in London have been blamed on rules around election-time funding. Kingston Council said that “strict rules around the use of council resources” in the weeks running up to an election meant it was unable to push forward with plans to replace the old Kingfisher…
Welsh firm Andrew Scott has been appointed to finish one of collapsed contractor Buckingham Group’s remaining schemes. Andrew Scott will finish a multistorey car park and commercial site in the centre of Swansea, after the project stalled following Buckingham’s descent into administration. Buckingham had been delivering the Copr Bay scheme,…
Kier has landed a job to build an accommodation block and workshop at HMP Bullingdon, Construction News can reveal. The contractor scooped the design-and-build contract to construct a seventh houseblock at the category B prison, which will increase its capacity by 247 to more than 1,300. The four-storey block will…
Oxfordshire County Council has had to spend more than £13m on fixing defects in buildings once worked on by Carillion. The council found problems with dozens of schools that required remediation in the years following the company’s collapse, the BBC reported yesterday. Carillion was the UK’s second-biggest contractor by turnover…
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