Civils

The Department for Transport (DfT) spent £13.8bn more on transport project invoices last year than in 2019, with construction and engineering firms receiving about half. Construction expenditure increased by 80 per cent from £7.9bn to £14.2bn in the same period. Little of that spend was seen by smaller firms, according…

Barhale has nabbed a major job to revamp part of London’s sewer network. The contractor will deliver “essential remediation works” worth £36m to the Northern Outfall Sewer (NOS), which runs above the Jubilee Line and Docklands Light Railway at Manor Road, West Ham. Barhale will both design and build the…

United Utilities has named 18 companies which will undertake £2.75bn of works between 2025 and 2030.  Earlier this month the North West water company named seven partners, including Kier, Costain and Murphy, which it said would oversee delivery of £3bn of major infrastructure works during the period.  Now United Utilities…

Balfour Beatty has won a contract to build a trio of electrical substations in Argyll, western Scotland, worth £192m. The contractor has been selected by SSEN Transmission to build the three new 275kV substations in Craig Murrail, An Suidhe, and Crarae. The new substations form part of the client’s Argyll…

Amey UK saw a dip in turnover last year despite improving its tender success rate, according to the company’s latest annual accounts. Revenue at the transport infrastructure and facilities management contractor, which was ranked fifth in the CN100 2023 table of top contractors by turnover, reached £1.84bn in the year…

Infrastructure and energy company OCU Group has acquired civils firm RJ McLeod for an undisclosed sum. OCU stated that the acquisition, announced today (11 June), will increase its annual revenue to more than £800m “and grows the capability and capacity for work in supporting the critical UK energy transition” to…

Balfour Beatty has scooped a job to deliver the first phase of a 137km power line job in Scotland. The contractor will deliver the design and development phase one of the £690m project for Scottish and Southern Electricity Network (SSEN). Balfour Beatty’s job at the site will be worth £32m.…

United Utilities has named seven partners to help deliver £3bn of major infrastructure work.  Kier, Murphy and Costain have been picked by the North West water company alongside C2V (a VolkerStevin/Jacobs joint venture), Mott Macdonald Bentley and MWH Treatment.  The works form part of United Utilities’ £13.7bn investment plan for…

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…

Plans for the next five-year period of road investment have been delayed due to the general election, Construction News can reveal. A draft of the third road investment strategy (RIS3), outlining which road schemes the government will fund between 2025-2030, was due to be published in late May. However, in…