Employees buy minority stake in safety consultant

Employees buy minority stake in safety consultant

Mike Forsyth Safer Sphere was established in St Helens in 2012 by Mike Forsyth as a CDM consultancy. He has now sold 49% of the £1m-turnover business to an Employee Benefit Trust. Other employee-owned companies in the construction industry include Tonic Construction, Triton Construction and McGee Group, as well as the big consulting engineers Mott…

VIDEO: Contractors Grapple with New COVID-19 Shutdowns | 2020-12-04

VIDEO: Contractors Grapple with New COVID-19 Shutdowns | 2020-12-04

VIDEO: Contractors Grapple with New COVID-19 Shutdowns | 2020-12-04 | Roofing Contractor This website requires certain cookies to work and uses other cookies to help you have the best experience. By visiting this website, certain cookies have already been set, which you may delete and block. By closing this message or continuing to use our…

Digbeth canalside plans approved

Digbeth canalside plans approved

ShedKM’s masterplan for the canalside site The masterplan, by architect ShedKM, will bring up to 2,000 new homes to the area including homes for sale, homes for rent and student accommodation. Housing, offices, leisure and retail amenities will be linked by two acres of public realm, opening up 200 metres of previously inaccessible canal frontage….

IBHS Releases 2020 FORTIFIED Home Standard | 2020-12-04

IBHS Releases 2020 FORTIFIED Home Standard | 2020-12-04

IBHS Releases 2020 FORTIFIED Home Standard | 2020-12-04 | Roofing Contractor This website requires certain cookies to work and uses other cookies to help you have the best experience. By visiting this website, certain cookies have already been set, which you may delete and block. By closing this message or continuing to use our site,…

Berkeley activity holds up but profit down 17%

Berkeley activity holds up but profit down 17%

Berkeley Group chief executive Rob Perrins Berkeley Group’s half-year results for the six months to 31 October 2020 show that revenue was only down 4% compared with the same period of 2019, at £895.9m (2019: £930.9). Additional costs associated with the new operating procedures meant that profit before tax for the May to October period…

SP Energy introduces rapid fix for damaged power lines

SP Energy introduces rapid fix for damaged power lines

SP Energy Networks (SPEN) said that the new technology can restore power within 24 hours. The Meccano-like Emergency Restoration System can be deployed at a short notice to support both overhead and underground lines. It provides a far more rapid response system for engineers to use in the field than has previously been available and…

Skanska sells infrastructure services to M Group

Skanska sells infrastructure services to M Group

Skanska’s highway maintenance business will become part of a new M Group company called Milestone Infrastructure Skanska’s infrastructure services operation includes road and rail projects, has 1,500 employees and generated £320m of revenue in 2019. The sale, expected to complete by March 2021, should take M Group Services’ annual revenues past £1.5bn. Skanska said that…

Construction PMI on the rise as new work starts to emerge

Construction PMI on the rise as new work starts to emerge

New order volumes expanded in November at the quickest pace for just over six years. However, employment trends remained relatively weak across the construction sector and stretched supply chains resulted in a sharp increase in average cost burdens. At 54.7 in November, up from 53.1 in October, the headline seasonally adjusted IHS Markit/CIPS UK Construction…

Costain Skanska hands over Euston site to Mace Dragados

Costain Skanska hands over Euston site to Mace Dragados

The Euston skyline today HS2’s enabling works contractor, Costain Skanska joint venture (CSJV), has completed two years’ worth of demolition work, taking the 1970s towers to ground level. Grant Thornton House and One Euston Square – designed by architect Richard Seifert – have made way for the new high speed station. The actual demolition was…