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Galliford Try has scooped two London-based building contracts worth a combined £87m. The contractor – the UK’s 15th biggest according to the latest CN100 – will redevelop 30-33 Sloane Street (pictured) in London for £53m. The project will include a new six-storey building comprising luxury retail units, some Category A offices and a rooftop restaurant.

The family firm has been trading for more than 60 years from its head office in Helensburgh on the west coast of Scotland. The company provides building services across the country including, social housing, local authority work, commercial construction and private and residential contracts. But a cashflow crisis combined with contract delays and the rising

A construction firm has been fined £800,000 after health and safety failures led to the death of a 10-year-old boy at one of its sites. Shea Ryan and other children entered RJ McLeod’s site at Drumchapel in Glasgow, which is next to a play park, on 16 July 2020 through insecure fencing. Shea began to

More than 900 people affected by the Grenfell Tower fire – including the bereaved and those forced from their homes – have agreed a civil settlement with several companies including contractor Rydon and public sector bodies. The settlement, worth £150m according to ITV News, was reached after a claim lodged at the High Court in

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Barrie Rossiter, who joined Lenmark in 2006 as a 24-year-old site labourer, has been a director of the company since 2015. As managing director,...

Hertfordshire-based firm Jarvis Contracting has appointed administrators and made 70 staff redundant. The £43.8m-turnover company was based in Harpenden and worked in the residential, health, industrial and education sectors. A statement from administrators at Verulam Advisory blamed unsustainable contract terms for its downfall. “The company has suffered adverse market conditions in the past two years

A contractor has been fined £20,000 for “a catalogue of health and safety failings” identified at a site. Daniel Taylor Builder and Architectural Woodworker was converting a former bank into offices when it was found to have left workers at risk from falling from height and exposure to hazardous substances, according to a statement from