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Construction News (UK): Profit surged by half at Sir Robert McAlpine (SRM) after it focused on “disciplined work selection”, the firm’s latest accounts show. The tier one contractor tabled a pre-tax profit of £15.7m in th
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Construction News (UK): The entry deadline for this year's Women in Construction & Engineering Awards has been extended until midnight on Friday 8 May. The awards will hail the individuals, companies and teams making outs
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Construction News (UK): Derbyshire County Council is seeking a development partner for a £138.4m redevelopment of County Hall in Matlock, including the conversion of the listed south block into a hotel. The council has pu
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Construction News (UK): Construction sites are complex ecosystems where collaboration, safety and efficiency depend on one critical foundation: reliable connectivity. Yet many projects still struggle with weak digital inf
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Construction News (UK): Measures could be introduced to mitigate the impact on construction firms of looming tariff hikes for imported steel products, following a top-level meeting. In March, the government announced that
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Construction News (UK): Wates Group has promoted George Mosey to managing director of its London construction business. The contractor said Mosey had taken up the role on a permanent basis after serving in an interim capa
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Construction News (UK): The planned procurement for renewal works to Parliament will be delayed, at a cost of millions, unless MPs and lords debate the proposals before conference season, according to officials running th
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Construction News (UK): Contractor Lloyd & Gravell has become an employee ownership trust (EOT) after receiving funding from the Welsh government. The Carmarthenshire-based firm said becoming an EOT will safeguard 60 jobs
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Construction News (UK): Civils specialist Renew Holdings has made another acquisition as it seeks to reinforce its presence in the water infrastructure services market. The £1.12bn-turnover group, ranked 22nd in the CN100
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Construction News (UK): Sales volumes among builders’ merchants fell by nearly 11 per cent in February. The latest Builders Merchant Building Index (BMBI) report revealed that sales by volume slid by 10.6 per cent year-on
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Construction News (UK): The number of potential victims of modern slavery in construction identified after calls to a helpline shot up by 44 per cent last year. The UK Modern Slavery & Exploitation Helpline, run by charit
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Construction News (UK): Complaints about skill shortages in construction are hardly new. What is new is the way the problem is now being framed. That shift was crystallised in Mark Farmer’s 2023 review of the sector’s two