The big US investor that bought Morrison Utility Services earlier this year has swooped on another UK construction business. Private equity investor First Reserve revealed today it has sealed a deal to buy £200m regional contractor Dyer & Butler. The Southampton-based firm delivers civil engineering and building services across southern England. In September First Serve acquired […]
Laing O’Rourke is finalising details for construction of the Sir Henry Royce Institute For Advanced Materials in Manchester. The firm has been working with Manchester University under a pre-construction agreement and is now set to sign a contract for construction to start in March, subject to planning. Manchester University submitted plans for the new materials research centre last week. The 46m […]
London Underground has named its preferred contractor teams for its £350m Future Stations’ Civils and Tunnelling Works framework. Joint ventures between Morgan Sindall/BeMo and Taylor Woodrow/Bam Nuttall have won places on all three lots covering civils, tunnelling and combined civils and tunnelling. Hochtief was also successful but only secured a place on the third combined […]