G4S's Ten Year Sizewell C Deal Signals Where Nuclear Jobs Go Next
A facilities management contract worth up to 400 jobs shows Sizewell C planning for operations well before the build is finished. It's a marker worth watching if you work in M&E.
Market moves, contract awards and hiring signals across UK construction, and what each one means for your career.
A facilities management contract worth up to 400 jobs shows Sizewell C planning for operations well before the build is finished. It's a marker worth watching if you work in M&E.
Glenigan's latest index shows construction starts down a fifth on last year, with housing hit hardest and the South East and West Midlands falling furthest. Here's what the numbers mean for where the work, and the hiring, actually is.
Sefton council has handed its highways and footways maintenance contract to Bootle-based Dowhigh ahead of larger rivals, a deal worth up to £65m over eight years.
Mellior Group has landed the full £21m construction contract to convert a former Islington office block into 130 homes, one of the more visible signs of the office-to-residential trend now running through central London.
Angus Murray takes charge of Balfour Beatty's UK Major Projects business this month, picking up Hinkley Point C, Net Zero Teesside and the group's push into small modular reactors and reservoirs. It's a leadership change worth watching if you're building a career in nuclear or major infrastructure.
NHS Shared Business Services has delayed the tender for its Public Sector Construction Works 2 framework, pushing contract start dates back by roughly a year. If you bid for health sector work, or want to join a team that does, the timeline just moved.
The Ministry of Justice has signed off enabling works for a 1,700-place prison near Leyland, one of the first visible contracts from a prison-building push it accelerated with fresh funding this month. It's a marker for where justice sector construction jobs are heading next.
Luton Rising has handed a Mace Consult and Arcadis team the lead programme management role on the airport's £2.5bn-plus expansion, a scheme expected to generate 11,000 jobs as it moves into delivery.
Severn Trent has awarded Galliford Try a £110m contract to build a 23km pipeline protecting the River Mease, a sign of where the current wave of AMP8 environmental spending is actually landing.
New Begbies Traynor data shows 7,458 construction firms in critical financial distress last quarter, even as the sector's PMI stays stuck in contraction. Here's how to read it before your next move.
Creditsafe data shows 25 construction firms fell into administration in August, the second monthly fall in a row, but the year-to-date total is still running ahead of last year.
Robertson, Caddick and Esh have been appointed to a four-year, £208m Karbon Homes framework to build extra care housing across the North East and Yorkshire, with Robertson taking the largest share.
Siemens Energy will build turbine components for Rolls-Royce's first small modular reactors at its historic Newcastle works, backing more than 550 jobs and opening a new UK manufacturing route into nuclear.
Output fell at its fastest pace in months as the housing slump deepened, but transport infrastructure and data centre work kept staff numbers from falling further. Here is where that leaves the job market.
Housing minister Matthew Pennycook has confirmed a workforce plan is due later this year to tackle chronic skills shortages. Here is what a plan like this can actually do for your career, and what to treat with caution.
Graham has Building Safety Regulator sign-off to start main construction on a £286m, 2,302-bed student scheme in Manchester. For anyone in high-rise residential or PBSA, this is where the next four years of site jobs are landing.
Leeds City Council has made Balfour Beatty sole contractor on a seven-year, £120m renewal of the city's inner ring road, covering 135 structures including bridges and tunnels. It's the kind of long-run commitment that's rare in local authority highways work.
Costain's half-year results put its forward work position at a record £7bn, with major projects now moving out of design and into construction. For engineers currently sat in the design phase of infrastructure programmes, that shift is where the hiring happens next.
Bloomberg Intelligence analysis shows England's top six housebuilders now expected to complete around 16,000 fewer homes across 2026 and 2027 than forecast at the end of 2024, with Vistry and Berkeley hit hardest while Persimmon and Taylor Wimpey hold up better. Which employer you choose now matters more than usual.
Gilbert-Ash has secured the £40m main contract to restore RIBA's Grade II* headquarters at 66 Portland Place, a pilot for the UK's new Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard. For anyone with listed-building and net-zero retrofit experience, this is the kind of project that gets you noticed.
Tilbury Douglas has handed over a new urgent and emergency care facility at Arrowe Park Hospital in Wirral, built in four phases without closing the existing A&E. It's a reminder that healthcare estates keep spending even when other sectors slow.
HS2 has appointed Neil Holm, formerly of the Transpennine Route Upgrade and BAE Systems, as chief programme officer, a sign that the project's long reset is entering its final stretch. The delivery phase that follows will need people who can run large programmes and manage supplier risk.
The construction downturn eased slightly in August, but firms are still cutting headcount, and civil engineering just posted its worst month since 2020.
HS2 has launched the first phase of its last major viaduct into Curzon Street station, a job that will run to next summer and needs engineers on site the whole way.
Breyer Holdings folded after seven decades trading, putting 285 jobs at risk and leaving another trail of unpaid subcontractors in the specialist trades.
A Barbour ABI analysis finds more than £100bn of UK data centre construction working its way toward contractors. Here is where the M&E-heavy demand is landing, and what it means for anyone weighing a move into the sector.
CITB's latest five-year outlook puts average annual demand at 41,200 extra workers through 2030, even as short-term output stays subdued. The gap says more about your negotiating position than the headline figures do.
KPMG and REC's UK Report on Jobs for August shows temporary vacancies rising for the first time in two years, with construction trades and engineering leading the gains. What the data means if you are weighing a move now.
The West Country housebuilder's administration papers show £35m owed to unsecured creditors, with subcontractors expected to receive nothing. Here's what the collapse signals for regional housebuilding and the QSs working in it.
Orbit has launched a combined £1.6bn procurement programme for planned repairs, retrofit and compliance work across five English regions. Here is what the framework means for QSs, PMs and retrofit specialists over the next decade.
Willmott Dixon Developments and Rioja Estates have submitted plans for a £150m waterfront regeneration in Great Yarmouth, with construction pencilled in for 2028. Early, but worth putting on your radar.
Morgan Sindall Construction has split its Home Counties business in two and handed out four senior director appointments across London and the South East. For anyone working that patch, it is a live example of where the next wave of regional leadership roles will open.
Sizewell C has appointed recruitment firm Rullion to run its early careers programme as the nuclear project builds toward roughly 1,500 apprenticeships during construction. It is one of the clearest hiring signals in the sector right now, for entrants and for the experienced staff who will supervise them.
Kishorn Port in Wester Ross is preparing to procure a £30m contract for a new deep water quay, the next phase of an expansion aimed at offshore wind and decommissioning work. For contractors and site teams with marine or civils experience, it is an early marker of a tender worth watching.
Lewisham Council has named Hill Group its long-term development partner on a scheme worth up to £1.5bn over ten years. For anyone working in London affordable housing, that is a rare thing right now: visibility.
Equans UK & Ireland has acquired Mway Communications, a 100-strong highways technology and comms specialist that works across National Highways' road network. It is a small deal with an outsized signal for a skill set most construction professionals overlook.
H.I.G. Capital has completed its acquisition of Phoenix ME, a UK mechanical and electrical engineering specialist serving data centres and life sciences. When a $75bn investment firm buys an M&E contractor, it is worth asking why, and what it means for anyone in that trade.
National Highways has launched the tender for its next roads maintenance framework, worth up to £8bn and running to 2037. It reshapes who holds the work and opens a long run of highways roles across England.
An Oldham light gauge steel frame specialist has filed to appoint administrators just six months after opening a bigger factory. It's a reminder that scaling up doesn't shield a subcontractor from a slow market.
A South Wales manufacturer has landed a major HVAC contract on Sizewell C on the back of its Hinkley Point C work. It's a live example of nuclear experience carrying straight from one new-build project to the next.
Bouygues UK has won a £64m contract to rebuild Holy Trinity CofE Secondary School in Crawley while pupils stay on site, one of hundreds of projects still to come through the government's School Rebuilding Programme.
Scape has opened bidding on an £8bn national construction framework running to 2031, with a dedicated £2bn lot for housing and retrofit. Here is what the shortlist will mean for site and commercial teams once contractors are named next summer.
BAM UK & Ireland has brought in Robertson Construction Group's executive technical director to run its Scotland operation from September. It is a reminder that senior technical talent still moves between Scotland's biggest contractors.
O'Halloran & O'Brien's turnover fell by a fifth but profit still rose 15%, and the group says it is Building Safety Act delays finally starting to clear that will unlock the next wave of work. Here is what it means for high-rise site teams.
Angela Rayner has told every council leader in England to scale up housebuilding now, with a new Section 106 template and billions still to allocate before the Autumn Budget. For anyone who can deliver public sector housing schemes, the pipeline just got longer.
Procurement for Housing has named 75 contractors on a three-year, £725m responsive repairs and voids framework, with new dedicated lots for damp, mould and pest control. It is a hiring signal for the surveyors and contract managers who run this side of social housing.
Winvic's turnover stayed above £1bn and its workforce grew by 11%, even as insolvencies rise elsewhere in the market, a sign the industrial and data centre boom is still hiring.
Plans for the last phase of Lendlease's Stratford Cross site have gone in to Newham Council, with construction pencilled in for 2028. Here's why it's worth tracking now.
Just 1,220 private housing sites won planning permission in Q1 2026, the lowest since records began. Here's what a thinning consent pipeline means for jobs over the next two years.
Costain has been appointed to a £150m wastewater upgrade programme for Thames Water, one of the clearest signs yet that the industry's five-year AMP8 investment cycle is converting into site-level contracts. It is worth tracking closely if you work in water or want to move into it.