Buildings

Forty-seven mechanical and electrical (M&E) contractors, about three quarters of which are small or medium businesses, have been appointed to Pagabo’s new £545m M&E Solutions Framework. The framework will be available nationally – split into 12 UK regions – and will run for four years. It was designed to respond…

Nottingham City Council has appointed contractor Lovell Partnerships to complete a problem-plagued housing estate in the city. The 106-home estate, on the site of the former Eastglade School in Top Valley, has suffered £30,000 worth of damage since the original building contractor went under. Contractor Robert Woodhead was working on…

Sunderland-based Brims Construction has replaced Tolent as the main contractor on a £20m construction training centre in the city. The Housing Innovation and Construction Skills Academy (HICSA) will provide “next-generation skills for next-generation homes” and support the city's manufacturing, carbon reduction and renewable-energy ambitions. Sunderland City Council picked Brims to…

Laing O’Rourke has suspended construction work on the £555m Everton Stadium following the death of a worker. A man who worked for a subcontractor was taken to hospital in an ambulance following a serious injury on the site at Bramley Moore Dock in central Liverpool. However, he later died in…

All new non-domestic public and private buildings will be required to provide separate single-sex toilets for women and men or self-contained, private toilets. The government has announced that it is bringing forward changes to Building Regulations stipulating the new requirements, which will ban gender-neutral toilets with multiple cubicles. The government…

The trade body for the demolition industry has condemned the knocking down of the 18th century Crooked House pub in Staffordshire. The building in Himley, described as “Britain’s wonkiest pub”, was pulled down with an excavator on 7 August, two days after fire which the police are treating as suspected…

Construction output grew for the first time in four months in June, new figures show. Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows a 1.6 per cent increase in volumes in the month, following three successive months of falls. New infrastructure work grew by 4.7 per cent in the…

MRP, the property development arm of McAleer & Rushe, has been selected as the master-development partner for the Weavers Cross regeneration scheme in Belfast. Translink, Northern Ireland’s public transport provider, selected the County Tyrone-based firm to lead private sector investment on the project. Weavers Cross will include up to 120,000…

Faithdean has been appointed to a contract to overhaul a Brutalist office building in central London. Planning consent for the revamp of Maple House – originally designed by British architect Richard Seifert – has been secured from Camden Council by Lazari Investments and architects Gibson Thornley. The proposals will see…

The owner of the plant firm that owns the excavator used to demolish the 18th Century Crooked House pub in the West Midlands has denied any involvement in carrying out the work. South Staffordshire District Council has launched an investigation into potential breaches of planning and building laws after the…