Morgan Sindall

Morgan Sindall Highways managing director Paul Gott has left the group. After 15 years at the company, Gott leaves to “pursue other opportunities”, according to a spokesperson for Morgan Sindall. Gott was managing director of the Highways business for just under five years, and had also operated as managing director…

Wates was helped to the top of the June league tables by securing a £250m contract to upgrade a series of UK prisons. The contractor was one of two firms that secured spots on a £500m contract to construct six new housing blocks at half a dozen prisons, according to…

A third of Morgan Sindall’s shareholders have voted against the salary packages for the company’s top executives at its annual general meeting. The dissenting shareholders voted against the remuneration plan for 2021, which sees chief executive John Morgan’s salary jump by about 150 per cent in comparison with 2020. It…

Kier and Willmott Dixon are among a host of big-time contractors that have nabbed spots on a £240m framework covering the north of England. Tilbury Douglas, Henry Boot, Morgan Sindall and Galliford Try were also named on the YORbuild3 framework, which will last for four years. Specifically, the work will…

Morgan Sindall has managed to limit the impact of inflation and material shortages on its operations, according to a trading update issued this morning, but it added that supply-chain difficulties remain “a significant challenge”, exacerbated by the war in Ukraine. “The impact continues to be minimised on most projects through…

Morgan Sindall has been propelled to the summit of the contractors’ league table for March by a £75m deal to develop a manufacturing hub in southern England. The 60,000 square foot facility, which is being developed at Kent Science Hub in Sittingbourne, will support cannabis-based medicines developed by Irish pharmaceutical…

Morgan Sindall will complete the construction of a hotel in Devon, after the collapse of Midas Construction left the job in limbo. Work on the 120-bedroom Harbour View Hotel came to a sudden halt when Midas entered administration in January. Torbay Council has confirmed that it has brought in Morgan…

Southern Construction Framework (SCF) has notified contractors for a £4.5bn construction framework for work on public-sector projects in the south of England. Framework provider SCF, which is a joint initiative between Hampshire County Council and Devon County Council, will launch the fifth-generation framework, SCF 5, in April 2023, which will…

All tier one contractors still working on Crossrail will be demobilised during the next six weeks. Crossrail chief executive Mark Wild (pictured) confirmed that the Costain Skanska JV (CSJV) will wrap up at Paddington station within four weeks. Meanwhile, a JV between Balfour Beatty, Morgan Sindall Infrastructure and Vinci Construction…

Morgan Sindall chief executive John Morgan has said the contractor’s “highly empowered” structure helped it negotiate its way through the pandemic and double its profits. Speaking to Construction News, the veteran chief executive, who has been with the company since co-founding it as Morgan Lovell in 1977 and served continuously…