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Laing O’Rourke is pursuing architect BDP for £1.8m after carrying out cladding remediation on a residential building in Bury, Lancashire.  The contractor completed The Rock, a mixed-use shopping centre scheme, in July 2010 after signing a design and build contract two years earlier. BDP was the architect for the project and had its contract novated

A pair of biosecurity contracts propelled Laing O’Rourke to the top of the latest monthly contractor league table. The tier one contractor was chosen by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) as main works contractor for two science buildings on the National Biosecurity Campus in Weybridge, Surrey. The site is home to

Ray O’Rourke, the founder and ex-chief executive of Laing O’Rourke, will take over as the group's new chairman in April. O’Rourke (pictured), who founded the firm in 1977, will take over from Sir John Parker, who is stepping down on 31 March. Parker is leaving the post after eight years as Laing O’Rourke’s chairman, the

Laing O’Rourke has officially handed the Everton FC’s new stadium over to the football club, after three and a half years’ construction work. The contractor's project director Gareth Jacques was joined by Everton’s executive chairman Marc Watts and interim chief executive Colin Chong during a ceremony to mark completion of the contractor’s main work. Everton

St Marys Railway Station Laing O’Rourke has been awarded an A$82.5m (£46.2m) contract to build a footbridge at St Marys Station on the Sydney Metro. Work on the footbridge is expected to start in April 2023 and complete by the end of 2025. It will enable passengers to transfer between new metro platforms and suburban

Twenty-nine firms have been named on a £10bn offsite framework to help deliver more social housing, new schools and hospital extensions.  The four-year framework, for all public bodies, features six lots covering education, health, residential, justice, defence, and ‘thermal efficiency upgrades’. Among the most high-profile winners are Kier, in partnership with McAvoy and Metek, and

Laing O’Rourke has been using Chinese ‘smart batteries’ to power cranes London’s Olympia Redevelopment for the past six weeks...