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Quinn London has maintained its margin as it boosted turnover in its latest financial year. The Mill Hill-headquartered contractor’s revenue rose to £109m in the year to 31 May 2025, from £100m in the prior 12 months, newly released accounts show. Its pre-tax profit rose to £4.1m in the period, from £3.6m in 2024. The

Repeat business and new housing developer clients have helped Applebridge Construction to treble its pre-tax profit, the firm said in its latest annual accounts. The family-owned contractor generated a profit of £21.9m for the year to 30 April 2025 from turnover of £119.6m, as it began to implement a new three-year strategic plan. Turnover was

A Dorset contractor has been fined £100,000 after a steel-fixer was crushed by a wall during excavation work, days after consultants raised safety issues on site. According to a statement from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), 69-year-old Patrick Grant was left with life-changing injuries after the incident at a Matrod Frampton housebuilding site in

Vivid Housing has awarded a £69m contract to PMC Construction and Development Services for the first phase of a residential scheme at Victory Quay in Tipner, Portsmouth. The 183-home phase one will be built across four apartment blocks and three houseblocks. It includes hard and soft landscaping alongside onsite and offsite infrastructure works. Work is

A London contractor has been given a suspended prison sentence after he ignored official warnings and put lives at risk, according to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). The HSE ordered Mohammed Mehdi Ali to stop working at a construction site in Willesden on 7 September 2018 after inspectors found “unplanned, unsupervised and unsafe” work

View of the school site where the wall collapsed. Credit: HSE A Bath-based contractor has been fined after one of its workers was crushed to death by a collapsing wall.  Gary Anstey was working for H Mealing & Sons on a construction site at a school in the city when an incomplete and unsupported 1.8-metre

New Gorbals Housing Association has issued a tender for a £40m residential development at Caledonian Road in Glasgow. The successful contractor will be required to support the client’s team in progressing a RIBA Stage 2 design through to construction. Works include piled foundations, external landscaping, drainage with attenuation, and utility connections. The contract will be

Pipework subcontractor Electrosteel Castings UK is being taken to court by Caledonia Water Alliance – a joint venture comprising Morrison Water Services Ltd and Aecom Ltd -over alleged breaches of a contract that it says led to the contamination of drinking water. Details of the case emerged this week after Derbyshire-based Electrosteel lost its bid