Supply Chain

Concrete contractor LGW Group has acquired supplier Multi-Crete Concrete & Concrete Pumping. The deal, announced last week, sees the Bristol company take control of the Gloucestershire firm from former owners Simon Robinson and Jason Bowen. LGW works across the south of England and Wales. Its brands include Wright Minimix, Bristol…

The entire portfolio of a building company’s modular assets has been put up for auction. More than 500 lots including a 2021 Stour Twin Column Welding Cell and 2020 ABB IRB 8700 Foundry Plus articulated robotic handling arm are available to buy. Asset disposal company BPI said the items represented…

More than 40 per cent of respondents in a new construction sector survey believe changes to procurement law next week will not deliver value for money on public projects. The report, undertaken by multidisciplinary consultancy Pick Everard, surveyed attitudes ahead of the 2023 Procurement Act’s implementation on 24 February. Among…

An insulation firm has launched a judicial review of the decision by Grenfell Tower’s council to ban it from future projects. Siderise Insulation Ltd, which manufactured some of the cavity barriers used on Grenfell Tower’s refurbishment in 2015-16, was banned from future work in the Royal Borough of Kensington and…

Industry figures have warned that too little rail work is flowing through to suppliers, with grave potential consequences for jobs, delivery and safety. Dissatisfaction with spending through Network Rail’s Control Period 7 (CP7) has overflowed in a series of posts on social media. It comes after engineering services giant Renew…

Three site managers from construction engineering firm Keltbray could face jail after being convicted of taking more than £600,000 in kickbacks. Arben Hysa, 56, bribed the Keltbray workers to secure contracts worth more than £15m through his company Tony Demolition Workers Ltd. Tony Demolitions Ltd (TDW) invoiced Keltbray for more…

A council has acknowledged that it broke procurement law in a power-station demolition tender. Brown and Mason Group Limited brought the claim over multiple breaches of public procurement law and unfair treatment from Cardiff Council over the award of a contract to demolish the former Aberthaw Power Station. The contract,…

Administrators for collapsed civils contractor O’Keefe Construction expect the firm’s creditors to come away almost empty-handed. Two-and-a-half years after O’Keefe collapsed, administrators from RSM Restructuring warned that they expected the firm’s supply chain and subcontractors to get a small fraction of the millions owed to them. Unsecured creditors, which are…

Heathrow Airport’s boss has announced a multibillion-pound plan to build new infrastructure while “laying the groundwork” for its long-proposed third runway. In a speech this morning (12 February) at British Steel’s plant in Scunthorpe, Heathrow chief executive Thomas Woldbye also signed the UK Steel Charter. This commits Heathrow to “using…

A Surrey council missed several “red flags” when it appointed a contractor with which it had already massively overspent, according to a new report. Warnings from a whistleblower and auditors “should have been visible” to Guildford Council’s senior management before it later appointed the contractor to a separate contract, law…