Tilbury Douglas

Former Interserve chief executive Debbie White has been named as new chair of The Co-operative Group. The member-owned food retailer, insurer, funeral provider and legal services business announced that White will join as a non-executive director next month, before taking over the role of chair in February 2024. White led…

Tilbury Douglas has appointed Ben Hull as its national education director. Hull (pictured) formerly served as regional design and planning manager for Yorkshire and the North East in a career spanning more than two decades with the company. After starting his career as a sponsored undergraduate, he took on a…

Administrators at one of Interserve Construction’s former joint ventures (JVs) are pushing to recoup millions in a legal case against Derbyshire councils. Interserve Construction, now rebranded as Tilbury Douglas, built up a catalogue of large jobs in the energy from waste (EfW) sector, some of which it split with joint…

Tilbury Douglas is set to build a £26.5m community hospital in Stoke-on-Trent. Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT) has submitted plans to replace the Haywood Community Hospital outpatients building – with Tilbury Douglas lined up to deliver the scheme if it is approved. The new building will house outpatient rheumatology…

Tilbury Douglas has resolved all of the energy-from-waste (EfW) issues that helped push Interserve into administration. In newly released accounts for the year to 31 December 2021, the contractor said it had made “considerable progress” in 2020 and 2021 in settling historic disputes and completing all of the problem contracts…

National Infrastructure Commission boss Sir John Armitt has been appointed to the board of the company that owns Tilbury Douglas, Construction News can reveal. Armitt was appointed a non-executive director of TD Bidco one day after last week's announcement that he had been granted another term as chair of the…

Tilbury Douglas will lead the construction of what it has described as the UK’s first purpose-built “biophilic” primary school – with net-zero carbon emissions. The new St Mary’s Catholic Voluntary Academy in Derby – part of the St Ralph Sherwin Catholic Multi Academy Trust – is being built under a…

Tilbury Douglas, the former construction arm of Interserve, has appointed a new permanent commercial director to help drive the “sustainable growth” of the now-standalone business. Martyn Smith joined the London-based firm today, having spent nearly three years as commercial director at Ferrovial’s UK business. Smith is a permanent replacement for…

A Tilbury Douglas joint venture (JV) has lost an attempt to throw out a claim from Northumbrian Water over more than £22m it is owed over a troubled water treatment centre job. As revealed by Construction News earlier this year, an adjudicator ruled in May that a Tilbury Douglas/Doosan Enpure…

Cyber attackers accessed the bank details, national insurance numbers and special category data including ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation and health conditions of up to 113,000 Interserve workers, an investigation has found. Interserve Group – the company created after Interserve plc’s pre-pack administration – has been fined £4.4m by the Information…