Author name: Joan Whitaker

Civil servants and ministers must be firmer in rejecting extra demands on major projects such as HS2, the government’s infrastructure advisor has warned. Sir John Armitt, chair of the National Infrastructure Commission, told members of the transport select committee yesterday (15 January) that greater pushback is needed to limit delays and cost rises on big […]

Administrators for Henry Construction Projects have launched a legal bid to recover £10m they claim was paid to a former director shortly before the firm went into administration in 2023. Details emerged in an update report published on Companies House last week in which administrators from FRP Advisory said they had issued proceedings against “certain

Construction was the best performing economic sector in November, new figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have revealed. While the wider economy grew by 0.1 per cent in the month, construction output rose by 0.4 per cent, the statistics body said. Construction’s growth was driven by private commercial new work, which grew by

Balfour Beatty, Kier, Bam and Ferrovial are among those in the running to work on a world-leading prototype nuclear fusion power plant. As part of a £410m investment from the government to boost the UK fusion sector, the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP) facility will be built at the former West Burton coal power

The facilities management (FM) arms of tier one contractors Galliford Try, Kier, Morgan Sindall, Vinci and Wates are among 27 firms with places on a new Pagabo framework. The Total Facilities Management Framework will run until January 2029 with a total estimated value of £814m, Pagabo announced yesterday (15 January). Hull-based Pagabo is managing the