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Three schools built by collapsed modular builder Caledonian Modular are to be demolished and rebuilt due to safety fears. In August, Sir Frederick Gibberd College in Essex, Haygrove School in Somerset, and Buckton Fields Primary School in Northamptonshire were told they could not open their main buildings for the new…

Lincolnshire County Council has doubled the length of its highways maintenance deal with Balfour Beatty. The agreement means the UK’s biggest contractor by turnover will look after roads in the area until 2032. Balfour was awarded a £217m deal back in 2019, which began in April 2020 for an initial…

Ardmore has been named as main contractor on a £50m office retrofit job in central London. Client LS Estates has appointed the Islington-headquartered firm to its commercial project at 5 Chancery Lane. Work will involve retrofitting the existing six-storey building, located between Fleet Street and Holborn, to provide 105,600 square…

Keltbray Energy, OCU and the Clancy Group have been chosen to carry out more than £1bn of upgrades to the electricity network in the South of England. Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) said the three companies would carry out significant improvement works on separate parts of the network’s central…

Balfour Beatty is set to deliver almost £20m of coastal protection works in East Anglia. The contractor was appointed by North Norfolk District Council for schemes in Cromer and Mundesley. Procured through Scape's civil engineering framework, the projects are designed to protect 600 properties from flooding and erosion. Balfour will…

GRS Group has been picked to complete the East Stand at Sixfields Stadium in Northampton, which was left unfinished after the collapse of Buckingham Group in August. Construction of the stand at Northampton Town Football Club’s (NTFC’s) stadium was beset with problems even before the failure of its main contractor,…

A framework provider has advertised £400m of offsite residential construction work. Warrington-based Procurement for Housing said the deal would be split into two lots – one covering low-rise units such as bungalows and the other focusing on apartment blocks. The social housing specialist, which is supported by the National Housing…

Laing O’Rourke is to build a swathe of facilities to kickstart a £700m innovation district in Oxford. The contractor was appointed by the development team behind Oxford North to deliver phase 1a of the mammoth scheme. Along with more than 90,000 square metres of laboratory and workspace, Laing O’Rourke will…

Northern Irish sports chiefs are looking for a new contractor for a £140m revamp of Casement Park Stadium in Belfast after abandoning a longstanding deal with Heron Bros and collapsed contractor Buckingham Group. Ulster Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) has said it cannot proceed with the existing main works agreement for…

A social landlord is hunting for a contractor to build two residential towers containing 481 homes. Latimer, the development arm of Clarion Housing Association, advertised the £100m West Midlands project last week. Between three and six firms are expected to be shortlisted for the scheme in the Digbeth district of…