News in Brief February 2026

Simon Boyd, Managing Director of REIDsteel, has been made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the King’s New Year Honours List. He received the prestigious award in recognition of his many decades of service to British steel manufacturing and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs).

Bouygues UK has been selected by the Department for Education (DfE) as its main contractor for the redevelopment of the Rosedale College site in the London Borough of Hillingdon. The work involves demolishing outdated 1960s structures and replacing them with modern facilities, including new teaching and performing arts blocks and a comprehensive refurbishment of the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) block.

Working on behalf of Benniman and Prologis UK, Caunton Engineering will be fabricating 2,000t of steelwork for a BREEAM ‘Outstanding’ cold store warehouse at the Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal (DIRFT) in Northamptonshire.

Willmott Dixon has started work on Acre Wood Academy in Crowborough, a £15.6 million SEND project for East Sussex County Council.

Westminster City Council has approved the redevelopment of the former BHS and UAL College of Fashion site at 33 Cavendish Square, near London’s Oxford Circus. Designed by KPF for Berkeley Estate Asset Management, the scheme will provide offices and retail units.