Author: California Builder

McNicholas Construction Services, acquired by Kier Group in 2017, was suspended from the Prompt Payment Code in November 2019, alongside other Kier entities, after failing to meet key requirements around the payment of suppliers within a 60-day window. This prompted Kier to remodel its finance and payment processes across the group and commit to the…

Leeds City Square The Leeds City Square design competition is being run by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and Leeds City Council with Balfour Beatty. The aim is to produce a piece of public realm that gives visitors to Leeds a good first impression. Competition entrants were instructed to “represent the ambitions of…

Production of Grebar reinforcing steel in Rotherham Liberty’s production increase is expected to reduce the UK’s reliance on imported steel,  strengthen the UK construction supply chain. Liberty Steel plans to remove production bottlenecks at its electric arc furnace (N-Furnace) and small bloom caster at its greensteel plant in Rotherham to help double existing steel output…

ASC has designed the 515-metre Edgcote viaduct, which will carry HS2 across the River Cherwell floodplain, south of Chipping Warden. ASC will deliver detailed design for 80km of infrastructure in the central section of the London to Birmingham leg of the HS2 project. For Arcadis, at least, the contract agreed with EKFB – a consortium…

Toy manufacturer Lego undertakes to review any submission to its LEGO IDEAS online platform where fan builders submit their own models. An AFOL (Adult Fan Of Lego) from Berlin has submitted a sewerage-themed model under the alias MOCingbird (in the Lego world ‘MOC’ stands for ‘My Own Creation’) as a proposed underground extension for the…