Tilbury Douglas

Tilbury Douglas hopes to grow its orderbook to £2bn, its new chief executive has said after reporting rise in turnover and profits last year. In the company’s newly released annual report for the year ending 31 December 2024, the group reported a £541.6m turnover, up from £507.2m the previous year.…

Tilbury Douglas is to deliver a £100m emergency department and critical care unit in Dorset.  The contractor announced yesterday (12 February) that it will begin constructing the new facility at Dorset County Hospital in Dorchester this spring, once enabling works have finished. It expects to complete main construction in 2027.…

Tilbury Douglas has been awarded the first contract for the Barbican Centre’s £185m renewal programme to upgrade the building and its infrastructure. The Barbican Centre’s renewal programme is being brought forward to update the iconic central London theatre, music venue and art space so it meets the needs of 21st…

Seven contractors, including Kier, Galliford Try and Tilbury Douglas, have been appointed to a five-year framework covering utilities in Yorkshire. Framework client Yorkshire Water said the work represents part of its “largest ever” environmental investment, as it looks to invest £8.3bn across the network in the next five years. Kier,…

Tilbury Douglas chief executive Paul Gandy – a key figure in the firm’s turnaround – will step down in November. Gandy oversaw Tilbury Douglas’ transition from subsidiary of the ailing Interserve to become a standalone tier one contractor. He joined the firm as construction managing director in 2019, just after…

Tilbury Douglas has failed in a legal claim that Arup should pay it £6m because of defective designs at a mixed-use development in Edinburgh. The contractor had alleged that Arup produced designs that were “incapable of implementation” on the revamp of the former Haymarket railway yard in central Edinburgh. But…

Tilbury Douglas returned to profitability in 2023 amid a 25 per cent jump in turnover, according to the group’s latest set of audited accounts. Revenue from the contractor’s building, infrastructure and engineering projects reached £507.2m compared with £405.2m the previous year. It also won £533m of new contracts in 2023,…

Tier one contractors Kier, Morgan Sindall and Tilbury Douglas have gained places on a major decarbonisation framework. The four-year agreement from Pagabo will cover decarbonisation works across all sectors in the UK except the healthcare sector, which was covered in a separate Pagabo framework announced earlier this month. Work will…

Tilbury Douglas has appointed Andrew Bull as managing director for infrastructure. Bull joins the firm from Arcadis, where he spent nearly six years as a senior partner. He replaces Paul Thain, who is retiring. Bull was Arcadis’ UK water sector lead and served as a board member on the Welsh…

Two major contractors have appointed new managing directors to regional divisions. Tilbury Douglas has named Phil Shaw as managing director of its Building North unit, while appointing Martin Horne to regional director for the North West. Meanwhile, Simon Martin became managing director of Caddick Civil Engineering. Shaw started his career…