HS2 faces reset | New Year honours | Miller buys St Modwen Homes

HS2 faces reset | New Year honours | Miller buys St Modwen Homes

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Published Jan 2, 2025
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New chief commits to fix HS2 crisis

The man who finally brought home Crossrail has vowed to do the same for HS2 and is planning “a fundamental reset” of the mega project.



Haines and Riley lead the way in New Year honours

Sir Andrew Haines and Gill Riley CBE head the list of construction-adjacent gong recipients in the 2025 New Year honours list.



Miller Homes buys St Modwen Homes

Miller Homes has agreed a deal to buy St Modwen Homes from Blackstone for a reported £215m.



£120k fine results from roof fall

A Hampshire solar panels company has been fined £120,000 after an employee fell off a roof and broke his leg.



New name for Keltbray Infrastructure Services

Keltbray Infrastructure Services has been renamed Aureos by its new private equity owners.



Daily takings down again for buiders' merchants

New data from the tills of Britain’s builders’ merchants show sales struggling to rally.



New president for RICS

On 1st January 2025 Justin Sullivan became the 143rd president of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).



2024: Year in Review

In their last episode of the year, Bishop & Taylor look back on some of the highs and lows of the year: the change in government and what it has brought, the Grenfell Inquiry report, the fall of ISG, the birth of Barratt Redrow, the six-thousand-tonne crane… and more besides.



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More cranes for Preston steel erector

Preston-based Steel Work Construction Ltd (SWC) has added three new wheeled mobile cranes to the telescopic crawler cranes that it bought in 2024.




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