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Equipment rental specialist Speedy Hire has signed a long-term agreement with Amey Group Services to provide non-operated plant. The hire and solutions contract is worth up to £25m annually, Cheshire-based Speedy Hire announced yesterday. A company spokesman said the duration of the deal could not be disclosed. The firm said…

A quarter of all the cladding remediation projects in England have been completed, seven years after the Grenfell Tower tragedy. Of the 4,374 buildings identified in England with dangerous cladding by the end of May 2024, 1,088 have been remediated to completion, according to government statistics published yesterday. Buildings in…

Cruden Homes and City of Edinburgh Council have submitted plans for the first phase of a £1.3bn “sustainable new coastal town” in the Scottish capital.  The Scottish housebuilder and local authority are working in partnership to overhaul part of a vast brownfield site to the north west of Edinburgh’s city…

A roofing contractor in Bristol has gone into administration. Davis Roofing Ltd was established in 2006 and employed a monthly average of 40 staff, according to its most recent published set of accounts, covering the 12 months to 31 March 2023. The firm had a place on two lots in…

Sir George Iacobescu will retire from the board of Canary Wharf Group (CWG) on 1 July, 36 years after he started working on the regeneration of the Isle of Dogs.  Iacobescu is widely credited with turning the destitute former Docklands site into a powerful financial hub, originally as an executive…

The nominees for the Inspiring Women In Construction and Engineering (IWICE) Awards 2024 have been revealed.  The award ceremony hosted by Construction News and sister titles New Civil Engineer and Ground Engineering takes place on 17 September and celebrates women and companies promoting gender diversity across the built environment sector. …

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…

Two of the UK’s biggest construction contractors have won plaudits for promoting gender equality within their businesses. Costain and Willmott Dixon, which placed 12th and 19th respectively in the most recent CN100 list, were both named in The Times’ annual Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality list. The list recognises…

Mechanical and electrical (M&E) specialist Lorne Stewart posted a pre-tax loss last year as turnover dropped. The company’s accounts for the 2023 calendar year reveal that the Greenford-based firm posted £118.7m in revenue, down 21 per cent from £149.3m the previous year. Its turnover was similar to its 2021 figure…

Mace chief executive Mark Reynolds has said government intervention is needed to get rid of retentions as there is not enough support for the measure in industry.  Speaking on Construction News’s First Site podcast, the co-chair of the Construction Leadership Council (CLC) acknowledged that his efforts to remove standard retentions…