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Voluntary arrangements backed for Ardmore companies

The Construction Index — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 07:54:00 +0100

Creditors have backed Company Voluntary Arrangements for seven companies in the Ardmore group. The companies will quit contracting and focus on areas the will deliver a better outcome than liquidation for the creditors.

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Top 100 Construction Companies 2026

The Construction Index — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0100

Although geopolitical upheavals continue to threaten economic stability worldwide, the UK’s 100 leading construction firms seem to be gathering strength, albeit incrementally. Most of these bigger firms have the resilience to withstand the rising cost of materials and labour but the same cannot be said for the smaller firms further down the supply chain. Steve Menary reports.

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GMI, Bywater top out low carbon office

The Construction Index — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:50:00 +0100

GMI Construction Group and developer and investment manager Bywater have topped out 35 Fountain Street in Manchester.

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Bristol City Leap targets carbon gains

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

Bristol City Leap, a public-private partnership between Bristol City Council and Ameresco, will decarbonise some of the city's top carbon emitting buildings.

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Westbourne signs up with MukAway

The Construction Index — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:33:00 +0100

Westbourne Civil Engineering has signed up to MA EnviroTech's materials management platform MukAway.

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Huws Gray adds plant hire in St Helens

The Construction Index — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:27:00 +0100

Huws Gray has added plant and tool hire at its St Helens branch, part of a national expansion into hire.

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Baxi offers budget heat pump compatible cylinders

The Construction Index — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:19:00 +0100

Baxi has expanded its Megaflo range of how water cylinders, with the new Essential range targeting social housing providers and offering heat pump compatibility.

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Talo, Balma continue offsite relationship

The Construction Index — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 07:52:00 +0100

Developer Balma has awarded Talo a £4m contract to build five new homes in Shoreham, designed by Chapter Architects, making intensive use of offsite techniques.

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Sir Robert McAlpine completes Bristol Uni building

The Construction Index — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 07:36:00 +0100

Sir Robert McAlpine has completed work on the Sloane Robinson Building, at the University of Bristol's new Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus.

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Falcon acquires RHT Lifting Equipment

The Construction Index — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 08:47:00 +0100

Tower crane and lifting specialist Falcon Group has acquired Robert Harwood Trading (East Anglia) Ltd, which trades as RHT Lifting Equipment.

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Perega and Severfield to add detail to Old Oak Common roof

The Construction Index — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 08:40:00 +0100

Perega has won its first appointment to an HS2 job, providing design support to Severfield for secondary steelwork on the roof of Old Oak Common station.

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Lighthouse sounds alarm over workers in crisis

The Construction Index — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 08:24:00 +0100

Construction charity Lighthouse has launched an urgent appeal for £200,000 in funding to help meet record demand for its service from construction workers in crisis.

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Eric Wright keeps profits moving up

The Construction Index — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 08:07:00 +0100

Eric Wright Construction has reported profit before tax of £3.5m in 2025, up from £2.5m, on turnover of £100.7m, down from £105.3m in 2024.

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First New Hospital Programme hospital tops out

The Construction Index — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 07:47:00 +0100

Willmott Dixon has held a topping out ceremony for the £140m emergency care building at Derriford Hospital, the first Wave 1 scheme in the New Hospital Programme.

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NiftyLift offers low and narrow options

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

NiftyLift has launched a new 10m electric access platform, the HR10, in narrow and low weight versions. Both will be on show at Vertikal Days.

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GBSS helps unlock canal skills

The Construction Index — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 08:42:00 +0100

Falkirk civil engineers GBSS will support Robertson Construction in the delivery of Lock 16, Scotland's Centre of Excellence for Canals and Traditional Skills, being developed by Scottish Canals and Historic Environment Scotland.

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Winvic, Mott MacDonald to protect Wear bridge

The Construction Index — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 08:31:00 +0100

Winvic Construction Ltd has been appointed design and build contractor for work to protect the Witton-le-Wear bridge in County Durham, working alongside design consultant Mott MacDonald.

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ECITB supports robotics training in Cumbria

The Construction Index — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 08:22:00 +0100

The Engineering Construction Industry Training Board has awarded £250,000 in funding to the Cumbria Robotics Operations Skills Centre (CROSS), opening later this year, to build skills in robotics for the nuclear and clean energy sector.

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Sales down, prices up, at builders' merchants

The Construction Index — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 08:13:00 +0100

The latest Builders' Merchant Building Index data shows sales by value down 1.2% year-on-year in Q2 2026, with prices up 5.8% and volumes down 6.6%.

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Ashbrook buys 1,600th Cat

The Construction Index — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 07:57:00 +0100

Ashbrook Plant Hire has taken delivery of its 1,600th Cat, a Cat 308 excavator, part of a 166 machine order through Finning.

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Mace reuses steel for West End project

The Construction Index — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 07:54:00 +0100

Mace Construct has completed work on 30 Duke Street St James's for GPE, using 78% recycled steel for the office and retail project.

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Eurovia trials electric paver

The Construction Index — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 07:42:00 +0100

Vinci's Eurovia Surfacing has deployed a Dynapac SD25 80C e to resurface a section of the A128 near Brentwood for Essex Highways, in a trial with the manufacturer and dealer SMT GB.

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Southern Water shows off Yew Hill Reservoir

The Construction Index — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 10:35:00 +0100

Southern Water has shared video of the soon-to-be-filled 9m litre Yew Hill Reservoir, delivered with M Group and Galliford Fry's MGjV.

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Tunnelling starts for Forgemasters flood relief

The Construction Index — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:48:00 +0100

JBA Bentley has started work on a tunnelling project that will help protect the Sheffield Forgemasters site from flooding.

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Pick Everard adds high risk building expertise

The Construction Index — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:42:00 +0100

Pick Everard has appointed Aditya Sardesai to its Building Safety Act team, adding to the consultancy's expertise in high risk buildings.

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McLaren to deliver £48m Leics warehouses

The Construction Index — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:33:00 +0100

Mountpark has appointed McLaren Construction Midlands & North to deliver two distribution warehouses at its Hinckley, Leicestershire development.

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Turner & Townsend appoints Europe regional MD

The Construction Index — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:21:00 +0100

Turner & Townsend has appointed Nima Nicolas Aase as regional managing director for Europe, responsible for complex international and regional projects.

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Stevens supports dry dock expansion with RJ McLeod

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

Stevens Equipment Rental has supplied more than 20 machines to RJ McLeod, for work on the expansion of Kishorn Port's dry dock.

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Acorn adds commercial manager

The Construction Index — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 07:45:00 +0100

Asbestos management consultancy Acorn Analytical Services has appointed Ben James commercial manager.

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Collett adds Greiner bridging system

The Construction Index — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 07:29:00 +0100

Heavy transport specialist Collett has added a Greiner bridge crossing system to its fleet, opening up routes across load-restricted structures.

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