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Posted: 2nd October, 2018
A £1 billion mixed use development at Beam Park in East London has been approved by the Deputy Mayor of London, Jules Pipe. The announcement, confirmed on Monday by Countryside and GLA, will ensure delivery of over 3,000 new homes on a 29-hectare site at Beam Park – formerly a Ford manufacturing plant. Crucially, it... Read More
Posted: 2nd October, 2018
Work is well underway on the £8 million Oxfordshire Advanced Skills Centre which will provide high-tech training to 125 technicians each year. Based at the Culham Science Centre, near Abingdon, the Oxfordshire Advanced Skills Centre is being built by Midas Construction on behalf of the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and the Science and Technology... Read More
Posted: 1st October, 2018
In a modern-day business environment, where new digital developments are constantly emerging, it can be difficult to keep up to speed with new technology and what it can offer. With pressures on time and resource, businesses can be forgiven for their reluctance in embracing new forms of digitisation in favour of traditional working methods which... Read More
Posted: 28th September, 2018
Laing O’Rourke has won the largest amount of civil engineering contracts over the past 12 months according to Glenigan’s construction market analysis. Securing the contract for the £1Bn transformation of Manchester Airport, has seen Laing O’Rourke push Tarmac into second spot, while Tarmac’s own £1Bn contract for strategic roads resurfacing work has seen them rise... Read More
Posted: 27th September, 2018
UK taxpayers are set to foot a £65M bill in redundancy payments to former Carillion employees, Unite has uncovered. Unite, the UK’s construction union, made a Freedom of Information request to the Insolvency Service which revealed that the Redundancy Payments Office (RPO) has made substantial payments to former Carillion staff. The response said: “the total... Read More
Posted: 27th September, 2018
The UK has hit a historic milestone, with the opening of the Walney wind farm extension, making it capable of generating 20 gigawatts (20,000 megawatts) through wind power. The opening of Ørsted’s 659MW Walney Extension off the coast of Cumbria this month pushed the total amount over the 20GW mark. The total operational capacity of... Read More
Posted: 26th September, 2018
A new report from the Oil and Gas Authority predicts offshore gas and renewables could form an innovative partnership which would see offshore electricity generation soar. The partnership between gas platforms and windfarms will promote the concept of gas-to-wire (GTW), which involves using the gas produced from gas fields to be generated into electricity offshore... Read More
Posted: 26th September, 2018
The latest statistics in the Economic & Construction Market Review have been released, showing a strong month for construction. In particular, infrastructure works, which reached a high of £1Bn – the first time in six months this threshold has been exceeded. According to Barbour ABI, the total value of new contracts across construction reached £6Bn... Read More
Posted: 25th September, 2018
A major £120M infrastructure fund has been approved by Oxfordshire County Council, easing the spending squeeze on road and property repairs. The Council has agreed to borrow up to £120M which will be invested in highway and council-owned building improvements, following a report on under-investment in the area. The report acknowledged that under-investment has resulted... Read More
Posted: 24th September, 2018
The release of the Migration Advisory Committee report has seen industry reacting with varying degrees of alarm and horror, with members of the construction industry raising concerns immediately. The report advises a ban on foreign workers earning less than £30,000 a year from obtaining work visas following Brexit, with lower-skilled workers not achieving work permits... Read More
