Buildings

ISG has been picked for a £155m programme to deliver 780 prison places across three sites. The contractor will build Category D houseblocks with 60 single-occupancy rooms, as well as ancillary rooms, for the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) via a FAC-1 Alliance contract. ISG was selected via the Crown Commercial…

Fit-out specialist Portview has taken over working on Fulham Football Club’s Craven Cottage from collapsed contractor Buckingham Group. Portview was already contracted to complete the interior fit-out of the new Riverside Stand upon completion of the base by Buckingham Group. The fit-out was left unfinished when Buckingham went into administration…

Industry figures have criticised Rishi Sunak for creating uncertainty and confusion after he pushed back climate targets on home insulation, boiler replacement and electric cars. Yesterday (20 September), the prime minister scrapped plans to force landlords to upgrade their properties to Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) C or above by 2025.…

ISG failed to deliver a £21.6m college in West Sussex before the start of term due to labour-supply issues, a council meeting has heard. The contractor was set to deliver the 100-pupil-capacity Woodlands Meed College building, for students with special educational needs, in time for the start of the new…

Construction firm Legendre UK has expanded into property development with an initial eye on build-to-rent and student accommodation in Greater London. It has appointed Nicolas Swiderski, former managing director of Linkcity Australia, to lead the new venture as head of property development. The company said the move replicated a similar…

A luxury housing scheme in the shadow of the Shard is running three years late and £91m over budget, Construction News can reveal. A litany of problems have beset the final phase of central London's Shard Quarter development, which also includes the Shard and the News Building, documents seen by Construction…

Rainy weather has been blamed for a 0.5 per cent drop in construction activity in July. Official figures published today by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show monthly output saw a 1.3 per cent decrease in repair and maintenance work, with new work up 0.1 per cent up on…

A new technical service has been launched that could detect crumbling concrete in crisis-hit public buildings and make them safe for use. Engineering and demolition contractor Keltbray has written to the government offering its specialist testing service in response to fears posed by historic use of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete…

A funding row has broken out over reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) in Scottish public buildings, after analysis revealed schools in half of all council areas are affected. So far, the potentially dangerous concrete has been found in 40 Scottish schools, including eight in Edinburgh, seven in Aberdeen, two in…

LHC Procurement Group wants specialist contractors to help shape a new energy-efficient retrofit and decarbonisation framework for public sector buildings and social housing. The non-profit public sector construction framework provider will open a market-engagement and feedback process on 20 September on initial proposals for its Decarbonisation and Retrofit (N9) framework.…