Groundforce struts (MGF’s are similar but red) An investigation by the Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) found that Vp and MGF shared information on pricing and strategy, to their mutual benefit, but at the expense of their customers. They colluded to reduce competition and keep prices up in the market for propping and shoring equipment….
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…
Unite’s Construction Sector: Covid-19 Guide runs to 30 pages, compared to just seven for the more concise Site Operating Procedures published by the Construction Leadership Council. The union has regularly expressed concern that the industry’s official guidance appears to have been largely based on the assumption that construction is an outdoor activity, and less adequately…
Heathrow Airport has won its case, at the Supreme Court, that the government’s Airports National Policy Statement did not breach UK law, as argued by opponents to the airport’s expansion. The Supreme Court has overturned a previous ruling made in February by the Court of Appeal. The February hearing decided that when the Department for…
The local government procurement body said that the impact of by lockdown restrictions on the sector didn’t stop businesses from going above and beyond the call of duty. It found that there have been financial donations to charities, staff time given to worthwhile community volunteering including delivering food and care packs, donations of PPE stock…
Improvement works at M6 junction 19 AmeySRM, a joint venture of Amey and Sir Robert McAlpine, is building a new bridge through the existing roundabout and over of the M6. The improved M6 junction 19 will tie into the A556 Knutsford to Bowdon bypass which opened three years ago. AmeySRM has a £43m contract with…
