Road plans shredded | ￡800k after child’s site death | Ainscough losses widen
All 14 planned smart motorway projects have been scrapped by the prime minister, cutting more than ￡1bn from public sector infrastructure spending.
A Scottish civil engineering contractor has been fined ￡800,000 for safety breaches after a 10-year-old boy sustained fatal injuries while playing on a building site in Glasgow.
McLaren Construction has been appointed by Ealing Council to build 188 new homes in Acton, west London, as part of a new development at the Steyne estate.
SJ Roberts Construction has won a ￡23m house-building contract in Shropshire.
A rise in operating costs and borrowing rates pushed Ainscough Crane Hire further into the red last year.
AER Rents, an O’Flaherty Holdings group company, has acquired Hudson Lifting Ltd, a London-based supplier of lifting tackle.
Skanska has won a contract worth NOK1bn (￡77.5m) to build a climate research centre in the Norwegian capital, Oslo.