Ellie Rourke 
Construction Review 2024 from Barbour ABI Our Construction Industry Monthly Snapshot looks a little bit different this month – rather than reviewing just December, our experts have reviewed the entirety of 2024 and analysed the construction industry’s performance. The report covers the three key areas of the construction project planning stages: Contract awards Planning approvals … Read more
Sir Robert McAlpine Contract Awarded for Agratas Gigafactory The race to net zero shows promising signs as a contract has been awarded for the £500m Agratas Gigafactory in Somerset. Contractor Sir Robert McAlpine is confirmed to begin work on site on January 2025. Phase one of the build will comprise of: Battery cell manufacturing facility, … Read more
Evans Property Group were awarded the contract for the Dakota Hotel at Manchester Airport on 1st July 2024. Currently at the detail planning stage, the £60m build will consist of the erection of 7 storey 154-bedroom hotel, with associated access, car parking & landscaping. Located on Enterprise Way & Bailey Lane, minutes away from Manchester … Read more
Scotland secures a quarter of all infrastructure awards in July. The domination of the sector was bolstered by two £150m projects. Based in Lanark, Strathclyde the first of the two huge projects is the 500MW Coalburn Energy battery storage facilities. The second project based in Dumfries and Galloway features an 84MW Wind Farm. Coalburn Energy … Read more
On day 1 of UK Construction Week London, we attended the insightful ‘workforce inclusion’ session on the Barbour ABI Main Stage. Co-chaired by Ele George, Founder of Elevate, and Guy Harris, Director of AccessiblePRS, the session started by asking the audience four eye opening questions. Guy asked everyone to stand up and when they answered … Read more
For this month’s content calendar blog, we are looking to the future of the built environment. What does it look like? With massive advances possible in technology, materials, automation, relationships, processes, diversity and countless other facets, it is impossible to know exactly what the next industrial revolution may look like. Within this blog, we will … Read more
The month of October is National Mental Health Awareness month. To ensure we are doing everything that we can to support everybody within construction and beyond, we will be providing content and resources throughout the month to spread the message that it is okay to not be okay. Mental health is not spoke about enough … Read more
After a typically quiet August for the construction industry, September tends to come roaring in to bring about a busy autumn period for many businesses, and the industry as a whole. This presents the perfect time for you to utilise all of the preparation work that you did in August and ensure that you have … Read more
The data within the latest release of Snap Analysis, our monthly industry snapshot, provided some respite from the planning environment’s recent downturn due to the cost of living crisis, supply chain distribution and rampant inflation. This is because contract awards bounced back to £7.2bn in July. July saw the second monthly rise in a row … Read more
The warm weather, the kids off school and the long-awaited holidays create quite a quiet August for many businesses. However, quiet time does not always need to result in a loss in business. Rather than worrying about your business being slow, we want to help you make the most of your time! This month our … Read more
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