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Official construction output data has revealed more signs of recovery with 0.5 per cent growth in June. The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics revealed the estimated increase came from rises in both new work (0.9 per cent), and repair and maintenance (0.1 per cent). This follows growth…

Balfour Beatty is keen to be involved in the new government’s potential use of private finance for infrastructure projects, its chief executive has said. Speaking to analysts yesterday (14 August) after the publication of the contractor’s half-year results, Leo Quinn said he “would love to use our expertise” in the…

All four companies served with warning notices by the nuclear regulator over fire-safety failures at Hinkley Point C have now made the improvements required of them, it has been announced. The four firms were served with the notices in relation to fire safety at the under-construction nuclear plant in January.…

Energy regulator Ofgem has approved the increased cost of building the UK’s biggest energy transmission project. Ofgem yesterday (13 August) approved Eastern Green Link 2 (EGL2), despite the project cost rising by £1.3bn in two years after rampant inflation discouraged suppliers from bidding. The scheme will see 436km of undersea…

Five contractors including VolkerRail have landed deals worth a total of more than £1.4bn to upgrade Scotland’s rail infrastructure. The contractors were confirmed this morning (13 August) by Network Rail Scotland under a new framework covering buildings, civils, structures, earthworks, drainage, and signalling and power projects. All of the contracts…

A coroner has issued a warning to road workers not to urinate between the rear axles of large goods vehicles (LGVs) following a fatal accident in Dorset.  Thomas McAuley was part of a six-person crew undertaking road resurfacing work for Kiely Brothers Ltd in Redwood Drive, Ferndown, when he died…

Graham has been appointed to a £67m project at the UK’s low-level nuclear waste site in Cumbria.  The contractor has been chosen by publicly-owned Nuclear Waste Services to install a replacement engineered interim trench cap over the Southern Trenches at the UK’s low-level waste repository (LLWR).  The LLWR receives low…

Anglian Water is seeking contractor interest in building two multibillion pound, multi-decade reservoirs in Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire. The water company said it will start procuring a main contractor for the detailed design and construction of the Lincolnshire and Fens reservoirs in January 2027. Main contractors will require “extensive involvement and…

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has shelved two “unaffordable” road projects, and confirmed reviews into government transport and healthcare building projects. Reeves announced yesterday (29 July) that the planned A303 Stonehenge tunnel scheme (CGI pictured) and the A27 Arundel bypass would not go ahead. In addition, an £85m regional railway-improvement programme faces…

Rachel Reeves is set to halt some of the largest government projects in a bid to balance the books, including the New Hospital Programme and Lower Thames Crossing. The chancellor (pictured) is expected to pause or cancel some of the government’s most troubled capital commitments in a speech this afternoon,…