Tilbury Douglas

Tilbury Douglas was called Interserve Construction between 2001 and 2021, when it operated under full-service parent Interserve Group.

Tilbury Douglas reports £94m loss amid legacy Interserve costs

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Tilbury Douglas made a £94m pre-tax loss last year due to legacy costs associated with its separation from Interserve Group. The company also saw its turnover fall from £463.5m to £405.2m in the year ending 31 December 2022, with directors saying a fall in workload “reflected difficulties experienced in winning…

Ex-Interserve boss to become Co-op chair

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Former Interserve chief executive Debbie White has been named as new chair of The Co-operative Group. The member-owned food retailer, insurer, funeral provider and legal services business announced that White will join as a non-executive director next month, before taking over the role of chair in February 2024. White led…

Tilbury Douglas names national education director

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Tilbury Douglas has appointed Ben Hull as its national education director. Hull (pictured) formerly served as regional design and planning manager for Yorkshire and the North East in a career spanning more than two decades with the company. After starting his career as a sponsored undergraduate, he took on a…

Creditors for former Interserve JV suing councils over contract cancellation

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Administrators at one of Interserve Construction’s former joint ventures (JVs) are pushing to recoup millions in a legal case against Derbyshire councils. Interserve Construction, now rebranded as Tilbury Douglas, built up a catalogue of large jobs in the energy from waste (EfW) sector, some of which it split with joint…

Tilbury Douglas profit drops despite fixing Interserve EfW legacy

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Tilbury Douglas has resolved all of the energy-from-waste (EfW) issues that helped push Interserve into administration. In newly released accounts for the year to 31 December 2021, the contractor said it had made “considerable progress” in 2020 and 2021 in settling historic disputes and completing all of the problem contracts…

Tilbury Douglas touts green credentials with new school

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Tilbury Douglas will lead the construction of what it has described as the UK’s first purpose-built “biophilic” primary school – with net-zero carbon emissions. The new St Mary’s Catholic Voluntary Academy in Derby – part of the St Ralph Sherwin Catholic Multi Academy Trust – is being built under a…

Tilbury Douglas JV loses £23m dispute over delayed job

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A Tilbury Douglas joint venture (JV) has lost an attempt to throw out a claim from Northumbrian Water over more than £22m it is owed over a troubled water treatment centre job. As revealed by Construction News earlier this year, an adjudicator ruled in May that a Tilbury Douglas/Doosan Enpure…

Interserve fined £4.4m after staff details accessed by hackers

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Cyber attackers accessed the bank details, national insurance numbers and special category data including ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation and health conditions of up to 113,000 Interserve workers, an investigation has found. Interserve Group – the company created after Interserve plc’s pre-pack administration – has been fined £4.4m by the Information…

Tilbury Douglas’ Walsall care-centre build hit by delay

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The delivery of a £40m emergency care unit in Walsall by Tilbury Douglas has been delayed because of supply chain disruption. The urgent and emergency care centre was due to be handed over to Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust by the autumn, but supply chain issues in the wake of the…

Tilbury Douglas announces string of appointments

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Tilbury Douglas has made a number of changes to its teams across the UK. Paul Ellenor has been named as the group’s regional director for Yorkshire and the North East, having started as an apprentice 35 years ago. Already leading the Yorkshire team, Ellenor will now run operations in the…