Author Archives: Ian Weinfass

Plans have been unveiled for a 71-storey tower in Manchester, which if given the go-ahead would be the city’s tallest building. Developer and builder Renaker announced it wants to construct the 71-storey, primarily residential, block incorporating 642 apartments, a top-floor swimming pool for residents and publicly accessible restaurant, also on…

A coalition of groups has launched a campaign to stop the government scrapping several key health and safety laws at the end of the year. The coalition is warning of the dangers around doing away with rules covering health and safety at work, manual handling operations, the use of display-screen…

Black & Veatch has been named engineering, procurement and construction management contractor on a new £480m energy-from-waste plant. Client Lostock Sustainable Energy Plant (LSEP) has appointed the specialist to oversee delivery of the plant, near Northwich in Cheshire. Babcock & Wilcox Renewable has landed a key engineering package on the…

TClarke is set to boost its profit to around £10m, it has announced. The listed M&E specialist said in a trading update today that it expected to record pre-tax profit of £10.3m for the 12 months to 31 December 2022, up from £7.8m in 2021. It announced in November that…

A consortium of housing associations is looking for contractors and consultants for a retrofit framework worth £1.48bn. The Greener Futures Partnerships is looking to decarbonise its housing stock through works including installation of solar panels and heat pumps, insulation and roofing. The consortium – made up of housing providers Abri,…

Mace has won a major life sciences job in London’s King’s Cross. Precis Group has awarded the company the contract to build a new headquarters for Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD) UK on Euston Road, called Belgrove House. According to a statement from the developer, the build will create more…

Balfour Beatty has landed a £1.2bn contract to build roads on the north of the River Thames as part of the Lower Thames Crossing megaproject. National Highways selected the company ahead of a joint venture between Kier and Eiffage. The contract is for a two-stage design-and-build project delivering around 10…

Kier has been confirmed on a £65m Passivhaus school contract in Edinburgh. The building, Passivhaus Currie Community High School, will be one of the secondary schools built to the environmental standard in Scotland. Features of Passivhaus include a reduction in total energy usage by up to 70 per cent compared…

National Infrastructure Commission boss Sir John Armitt has been appointed to the board of the company that owns Tilbury Douglas, Construction News can reveal. Armitt was appointed a non-executive director of TD Bidco one day after last week's announcement that he had been granted another term as chair of the…

Mace has announced a new chief operating officer (COO) for its consultancy arm. Davendra Dabasia, formerly the managing director of its international business, has become COO of Mace Consult and has joined the company’s executive board. A statement from the company said he will be given responsibility for boosting Mace’s…