ISG ploughed £300k into specialist before collapse
ISG paid £300,000 to subcontractor Alucraft Systems in a last-ditch attempt to save it from administration, Construction News can reveal. But the glazing and facades specialist collapsed in March...
View ArticleHomes England publishes £200m pipeline of work
Homes England has published a pipeline of major works worth over £200m. The pipeline, which is the first published under the new Labour government, and the first since February, details all projects...
View ArticleHigh bids stall £50m NHS energy centre
An NHS trust has paused a £50m energy centre build after it deemed the prices contractors offered too high. In 2022, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust offered contractors the chance to bid for a new...
View ArticleBuilding 1.5 million homes: great, but where are the workers?
Haman Manak is the procurement director at Stanmore For the past 18 months, we’ve all felt the effects of the economic headwinds. Under the tough, high interest rate climate, some well-known peers went...
View ArticleDirectors blame £3.5m client claim for speeding up firm’s downfall
Blenheim House directors believed a reputation-damaging legal claim from one of its clients prevented it from winning new work in the run-up to its collapse, administrators have revealed. The firm went...
View ArticleGovernment announces fresh ‘crackdown’ on late payment
The government has announced a fresh “crackdown” on late payment, with measures including broader reporting rules, a Fair Payment Code and consultation on “tough new laws”. While large companies are...
View ArticleLatham 30 years on – time for reform?
A panel of industry luminaries met this week to discuss the Latham report, 30 years after it was published. The discussion touched on the increasing complexity of disputes and the quality of...
View ArticleMorgan Sindall picked for £60m Cardiff school
Morgan Sindall has been appointed to build a £60m secondary school in Cardiff. The UK’s second-largest contractor has already carried out enabling works at the Willows High School site on Lewis Road...
View ArticleISG UK subsidiaries apply for administration
Six UK subsidiaries of the country's sixth largest contractor ISG - including ISG Construction - have applied to enter administration. Following months of speculation, which reached a crescendo online...
View ArticleWill a four-day week work for construction?
Elouisa Crichton (pictured) is an employment law partner at Dentons. Additional input from construction law partners Akin Akinbode and Mark Macaulay, and managing construction practice development...
View ArticlePeople moves: Arcadis lands life sciences specialist and more
Specialists in health projects and fire safety testing have announced new roles in the construction industry. Firms revealed they had made strategic appointments to enable them to bid for new business...
View ArticleYorkshire firm fined after client death
A Wakefield-based contractor has been fined £150,000 after an elderly client fell through an unguarded hole at his house. According to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), Cooper and Westgate was...
View ArticleWar of words over collapsed ISG sale
Recriminations over the collapsed deal to sell ISG have broken out between the contractor and the firm that had been negotiating to buy it. The disagreement over the reasons for the failed sale came...
View ArticleExclusive: ISG collapse risks £1.84bn of government contracts
Contractor ISG held at least £1.84bn in government contracts before its collapse, causing a headache for the prison-building programme, Construction News can reveal. The UK’s sixth-biggest contractor...
View ArticlePre-Covid contracts blamed for ISG demise
ISG chief executive Zoe Price has apologised to staff and suppliers and said the company has filed for administration due to loss-making contracts signed before the Covid pandemic. In a Thursday...
View ArticleISG: 2,200 jobs lost immediately, administrators say
Around 2,200 people have been made immediately redundant from stricken contractor ISG as two more of its subsidiaries foundered, administrators have confirmed. ISG Interior Services Group UK Ltd and...
View ArticleCLC urges prompt payment after ISG collapse
The Construction Leadership Council (CLC) has urged contractors to pay promptly as the collapse of ISG threatens to wreak havoc along supply chains. In a statement issued on Friday (20 September), the...
View ArticleHaringey extends £98m road deal with Marlborough
Haringey Council has extended its road maintenance deal with Marlborough Highways, with the overall contract now worth up to £98m. Marlborough’s existing five-year contract was due to expire in June...
View ArticleFour ways the new UK government could impact the construction industry
Taking into account the results of our latest SME Growth Index, Chris Smith – Head of Specialist Equipment at Aldermore – discusses the potential impact that the new Labour government could have on the...
View ArticleCarving the way to a greener future
Cut-and-carve projects are nothing new. But regular readers of Construction News will have noticed retrofit projects – particularly of central London shops and offices – featuring increasingly...
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