News in Brief: March 2026

Allowing improved resilience, safety and long-term maintainability, Joseph Ash Galvanizing has completed a major electrical infrastructure upgrade at its Chesterfield site. The project involved the full replacement of the main incoming primary distribution panel and upgrading to a modern, fully metered Form 4 Type 2 panel.

Laing O’Rourke has been chosen to deliver the new state-of-the-art cancer centre at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton. It will provide safer, more efficient, and better access to cancer care and services for a local population of around two million people.

Caddick Construction has started work on delivering Ashfield Mills in Bradford, an apartment development for Anchor, one of the UK’s largest providers of housing and care for people in later life. The £20.7 million project consists of 75 apartments, communal amenities, car parking and landscaped areas.

The Government Property Agency has signed up Kier to construct its new office hub in Darlington. The £120 million project, which is expected to be complete in early 2028, will accommodate the Darlington Economic Campus, with more than 1,600 civil servants from departments including HM Treasury, the Office for National Statistics and the Department for Culture, Media & Sport.

McLaren Construction has been awarded the contract to build the first of three 70MW data centre buildings for a new campus in London Docklands. The scheme campus is being developed by US firm Ada Infrastructure, as its first development in Europe.