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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

Kent-headquartered RG Group has won an £82m contract to deliver a 488-home build-to-rent scheme in Leeds. Work on the project, called Latitude Blue, located in a mixed-use neighbourhood on a former iron and steelworks on the edge of the city centre, is to start immediately. Hub, the client that also developed a neighbouring project called

Newcastle-based contractor Metnor Construction has filed a notice of intent to appoint administrators. According to its most recent accounts for the year to 31 December 2021, Metnor’s turnover was £62.6m, with a pre-tax profit of £942,000 and 65 employees. The firm has worked across a range of sectors including leisure, healthcare and student accommodation, and

DT Global, a US-based development firm, is seeking engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractors to build a PV plant with 5 MW to 7...

A Syrian-American dual citizen who had been living in the United Arab Emirates for more than 20 years to avoid extradition to the U.S. pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the U.S. Thursday, the Justice Department announced...

A collapsed company has been sentenced for failing to keep its workers safe after a 48-year-old man was fatally crushed by a 20-tonne excavator. Kidderminster-based Birch Brothers, which went into liquidation last year, had been building a concrete overflow weir structure at a pond in Derbyshire in 2017. Philip McDonald was one of the workers

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Collapsed contractor Jehu Group received £7.5m in taxpayer-funded grants and loans while it was struggling, it has emerged. A report by the Bridgend-headquartered company’s administrators revealed that the circa £70m-turnover firm received £5.1m in loans from the Welsh Government-owned Development Bank of Wales in the year before it went under. It was also granted £2.4m-worth