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George Bamford appointed joint chairman of JCB

The Construction Index — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 15:00:00 +0100

As JCB releases its 2025 results, the company has announced that George Bamford, younger son of Lord Bamford, has been appointed joint chairman.

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St James, Lindner Prater fined over window death

The Construction Index — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 08:25:00 +0100

The Berkeley Group's St James Limited, developer of the Corniche near London's Vauxhall Bridge, and window designer Lindner Prater have been fined over the death of a man killed by a falling penthouse window.

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Alumno tops out Glasgow PBSA

The Construction Index — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 08:52:00 +0100

Alumno and Clark Contracts has marked the topping out of a new six-storey 262-bed PBSA on St Georges Road in Glasgow.

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McLaren to build PBSA in Walworth

The Construction Index — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 08:45:00 +0100

Fabrix and Patrizia have appointed McLaren Construction as main contractor for a new purpose built student accommodation block, with additional social housing, in Walworth, London, close to Elephant & Castle station.

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Huws Gray adds plant hire in Fleetwood

The Construction Index — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 08:35:00 +0100

Huws Gray has added plant and tool hire to its Fleetwood, Lancashire, branch, as it extends hire services across its network.

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Aston University, Jesmonite to research cement alternatives

The Construction Index — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 08:02:00 +0100

Aston University will work with Jesmonite Ltd to develop the company's resin-based materials for use in construction, under an Innovate UK-backed knowledge transfer partnership.

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Arada submits first Thameside planning application

The Construction Index — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 07:52:00 +0100

Developer Arada has submitted planning applications for the first phase of housing projects at Thameside West to Newham Council.

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Cottsway renews TPMS material contract

The Construction Index — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 07:35:00 +0100

Cottsway Housing Association has signed a new contract with Travis Perkins Managed Services, which will provide materials for repairs and maintenance for a further seven years.

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Citizen, Westdale, SBS warm 2000 Coventry homes

The Construction Index — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:44:00 +0100

Citizen has brought energy efficiency improvements to 2,000 Coventry homes, delivered by Westdale Midlands and Sustainable Building Services under the Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund Wave Two programme, with £67.6m invested.

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Dandara completes Wittering homes for Vivid

The Construction Index — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:35:00 +0100

Dandara Southern has completed 16 homes in West Wittering, in partnership with affordable homes specialist Vivid.

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A2Dominion appoints repairs director

The Construction Index — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:26:00 +0100

A2Dominion has appointed Kelly Harris as operations director for repairs. Harris brings 20 years of experience in social housing.

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G F Tomlinson renews Chesterfield museum and theatre

The Construction Index — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:18:00 +0100

G F Tomlinson has completed the refurbishment of Chesterfield's Stephenson Memorial Hall, a museum and theatre which will reopen as 1435, celebrating George Stephenson's innovative 1435mm wide standard-gauge railway tracks.

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Countrywide Surveying trains new surveyors

The Construction Index — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:06:00 +0100

Countrywide Surveying Services has added six newly qualified surveyors to its team, with 35 trainees passing through its academy this year, as it seeks to replace an aging surveying workforce.

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McLaren picked for University of Greenwich renewal project

The Construction Index — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 07:56:00 +0100

McLaren Construction will refurbish and extend the Grade II Devonport House Hotel, creating a new Stride Treglown-designed teaching facility for the University of Greenwich.

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Associated Asphalt completes M40 work

The Construction Index — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 07:43:00 +0100

Associated Asphalt has completed work on the resurfacing of a 47mi stretch of the M40, between Warwick and Oxford. This summer's work was performed for UK Highways' DBFO M40 contract, in conjunction with National Highways.

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Welch's powers up for eHGVs

The Construction Index — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:51:00 +0100

Voltempo has installed a six bay 1MW charging hub at Welch's Transport's HQ in Duxford, Cambridge, part of the Innovate UK backed eFreight 2030 programme, with spare capacity for third party fleets.

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John McGeady buys HQ, plans growth

The Construction Index — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:41:00 +0100

Civil engineering contractor and plant hirer John McGeady has bought its Glasgow HQ, with the help of a £1.5m loan from Bank of Scotland, and plans to hit a headcount of 100 staff.

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Watkin Jones completes Tai Afon build-to-rent scheme

The Construction Index — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:29:00 +0100

Watkin Jones has completed the £200m 718-home Tai Afon build-to-rent scheme, masterplanned by Rightacres on the former Cardiff Brains Brewery site, ready for handover to L&G.

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Windowmaster, Fieger partner on facades

The Construction Index — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:21:00 +0100

Windowmaster and Fieger have formed a partnership to combine smoke extraction and ventilation in facade systems, easing their design and installation.

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Steel complete on supercomputer building

The Construction Index — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:09:00 +0100

UK AI minister Kanishka Narayan has visited the Edinburgh site of the planned Next National Supercomputer, as Robertson Construction placed the final piece of its structural steel frame.

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Accenture launches global construction business

The Construction Index — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 07:55:00 +0100

Accenture has launched a new business, Accenture Construct, bringing together thousands of global capital project specialists focussed on infrastructure, construction, engineering and technology.

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Barhale to build Alconbury wastewater capacity

The Construction Index — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 07:41:00 +0100

Anglian Water's @one Alliance has chosen Barhale to construct the £14.8m, 7.5km, pipeline needed for wastewater capacity at the planned Alconbury Weald new town in Cambridgeshire.

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EcoVadis Platinum for Algeco UK

The Construction Index — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:41:00 +0100

The Modulaire Group's Algeco UK has achieved an EcoVadis Platinum rating, placing it in the top 1% of companies assessed globally for the sustainability mark.

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Liebherr launches new rail excavator

The Construction Index — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:32:00 +0100

Liebherr is launching a new 22t rail excavator, the RE 22 M Litronic, at Innotrans, featuring a newly developed hydrostatic rail-wheel undercarriage and improved cab.

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Knight to chair Trust Housing Association

The Construction Index — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:16:00 +0100

Scotland's Trust Housing Association, which provides almost 4,000 homes in the country, has picked David Knight as its new chair.

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Balfour Beatty works on £65m Edinburgh airport expansion contract

The Construction Index — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:03:00 +0100

Balfour Beatty is working on a £65m contract, awarded in May 2026, to expand Edinburgh airport.

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Jacobs to support German radioactive waste storage

The Construction Index — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 07:53:00 +0100

Jacobs has been appointed by Germany's BGE to provide project support services for the Konrad Repository, a low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste storage facility in Salzgitter, Germany.

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AGD brings electric Marchetti to UK

The Construction Index — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 07:45:00 +0100

AGD Equipment has a new fully electric Marchetti compact crawler crane, the CW23.35 HY, available for hire.

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Willmott Dixon to rebuild Stockport school

The Construction Index — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 07:35:00 +0100

Willmott Dixon has been appointed by the Department for Education (DfE) to deliver a Sheppard Robson-designed £46m rebuild of Bramhall High School in Stockport.

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New homes under way in Sheffield

The Construction Index — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 08:44:00 +0100

Sheffield Housing Company, a joint venture between Sheffield City Council, Keepmoat and Great Places Housing Group, has started work on 41 new council homes in Shirecliffe.

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