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Underground parking and limited building information have kept ISG and scaffolding contractor GKR on their toes as they tackle a 19-storey refurbishment.

Project: Westminster City Hall refurbishmentClient: Westminster City CouncilContract value: £70mMain contractor: ISGScaffolding subcontractor: GKR ScaffoldingStart date: July 2017Completion date: November 2018 For half a century, Westminster City Hall…

In Liverpool ISG is nearing completion of student housing that is sat between two historic pubs and features one of the most complex steel frames ISG’s project manager has ever seen. Lucy Alderson takes a look.

Client: Ion DevelopmentsContract value: £39mRegion: North-westMain contractor: ISGGroundworks subcontractor: Murraywood ConstructionSteel frame subcontractor: Billington StructuresM&E subcontractor:…

They may have been delayed by 25 minutes, but the busload of students descending on ISG’s site at Leeds Arts University offers a welcome reminder of the interest Open Doors can generate.

Though made up entirely of students, the group is varied in terms of disciplines, featuring engineering, civils and surveying…

A dentist, a criminology graduate and an electrical contractor walk into a site office.

It’s not the start of a joke; it’s day one of Open Doors. There is a very diverse turn-out for ISG’s tour around its Imperial College development in west London. The contractor is building a biomedical engineering…

One of the Welsh capital’s tallest new buildings is rocketing up to provide luxury student accommodation

Project: Zenith Student Accommodation CardiffClient: Fusion StudentsContract value: £40mContract type: JCT Design and buildRegion: WalesMain contractor: ISGConcrete frame subcontractor: Midwest FormworkPiling subcontractor: Green PilingStart date: April 2017Completion date: Summer 2019 We have come a long…

The UK’s higher education sector has proved remarkably resilient during an unprecedented period of uncertainty brought about by global economic and geopolitical conditions.

Our higher education institutions’ enduring international appeal is matched by their reputation for world-class teaching and research, making the UK second only to the US in terms of global market…

CN visited the Lion City and spoke to three UK construction firms to find out how they gained a foothold in one of the richest, most relentless and most saturated markets in the world. 

“The village is a lot smaller in Singapore,” says Cundall Singapore director Marcus Eckersley. “If there is…

An unstable gable wall and a retained façade that needed steelwork threaded into the exisiting building has forced the contractor into repeated resequencing.

Project: The Mint Building, EdinburghClient: Chris Stewart GroupRegion: ScotlandMain contractor: ISGSteel frame subcontractor: GR ContractsDemolition subcontractor: Central DemolitionStart date: April 2017Completion date: January 2019 While much of the…

Building a new hotel within Edinburgh’s UNESCO World Heritage Site amid complex ground conditions posed unusual challenges for ISG

Project: Market Street HotelClient: The EDI GroupContract value: £20mRegion: ScotlandMain contractor: ISGSteel frame subcontractor: GR ContractsScaffolding subcontractor: Lyndon ScaffoldingStart date: May 2016Completion date: Summer 2018 “This site has been undeveloped for 40 years…