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Surrey County Council is seeking a contractor to take on a £2.5bn long-term highways contract. The deal will see one contractor picked to take over its highways maintenance contract, worth around £80m per year. On top of this, the council hopes the firm will take on other types of projects.…

Kier has appointed former Network Rail executive Helen Samuels to a new senior role in its construction business. Samuels, currently CEO of marine assets firm Bibby Marine, will join the contractor as technical director in January, where she will lead on issues including improving the firm’s use of data and…

Kier’s leadership took the unusual step of not speaking to the media following the release of its full-year results, which showed a £225m pre-tax loss for the contractor. Instead Construction News had to rely on city analysts to grill the business’s leaders – Zak Garner-Purkis picks out four things we…

Kier has revealed it made a pre-tax loss of £225m for the year ended 30 June 2020. The figure, which represented a marginal improvement on the 2019 loss of £229.5m, was blamed on COVID-19 costs and a reduction in volumes. Kier said these effects cancelled out the benefits of “significant…

The Scottish Government has revealed how much contractors, who helped turn the Scottish Events Campus (SEC) in Glasgow into an emergency coronavirus hospital, were paid for the job. Construction News can also reveal the breakdown of contractor earnings at Swansea Bay's field hospital. Kier, Balfour Beatty, Graham and Robertson were…

Kier is continuing its work on the new Durham County Council headquarters after eight workers went into self-isolation. Five of the contractor’s staff tested positive for COVID-19 late last week, with the firm initiating a track-and-trace procedure in a bid to stop the spread of the virus. The £50m job…

Kier has been appointed to deliver a £30m building for Swansea University. The firm will build the new Centre for Integrative Semiconductor Materials, a research and innovation hub for the UK’s semiconductor industry. Situated on Swansea University’s Bay Campus in its engineering quarter, the three-storey building will span 4,320 square…

Kier has announced the appointment of a new director to its board. Alison Atkinson will chair Kier’s safety, health and environment committee (SHE), as well as joining its nomination, remuneration and risk management and audit committees. She will take up the role on 15 December 2020. In May, Atkinson was…

Former Kier CEO Haydn Mursell has been appointed chairman of rooftop developer Apex Airspace Developments. Apex Airspace specialises in developments in unused ‘airspace’ above existing residential, commercial and public properties. The company, whose revenue is below the threshold for filing full accounts on Companies House, landed a £9m funding deal…

Academics say there have been quality and productivity benefits from the industry’s adaptation to the coronavirus, though such improvements come at the expense of programme pace. Research carried out by Loughborough University on behalf of Balfour Beatty, Kier, Mace, Morgan Sindall and Skanska, as well as specialist contractor GKR Scaffolding,…