Chatham Waters care home starts

Work has started on siteThe 75-bed Chatham Waters care home is being delivered in partnership by specialist healthcare developer Montpelier Estates, Apex Contractors and waterside regeneration specialist Peel Waters, which is behind the wider Chatham Waters...

Holcim acquires Gloucestershire asphalt plant

Holcim UK, formerly Aggregate Industries, has purchased the plant from Sharpness Asphalt Limited, with an accessible location next to the Severn wharf in the Sharpness area of Stroud.The plant will close for a few weeks for remedial works and aims to reopen next month...

Kier energy trial bears fruit

Solar panels help power site huts on Kier’s Bridgwater tidal barrier scheme Kier is nearly halfway through a year-long trial designed to explore whether solar power with a hydrogen fuel cell backup is a viable primary power supply on an off-grid construction...

Consolidation for Gateshead contractor

Last year saw Meldrum build Europe’s first flood rescue training facility for Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Services Accounts filed for Gateshead-based Meldrum Construction Services show 2024 to have been a year of consolidation for the employee-owned...

Wienerberger acquires Grafton’s MFP

Wienerberger’s Pipelife Ireland factory in CorkWienerberger said that the purchase of MFP Sales, a Dublin-based manufacturer of plastic drainage, roofline and cable ducting systems, helped to fill out its range of building envelope products and services. It described...